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In classical physics, entropy quantifies the randomness of large systems, where the complete specification of the state, though possible in theory, is not possible in practice. In quantum physics, despite its inherently probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Davi Geiger , Zvi Kedem

We propose a new field theoretic method for calculating Renyi entropy of a sub-system of many interacting Bosons without using replica methods. This method is applicable to dynamics of both open and closed quantum systems starting from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-14 Ahana Chakraborty , Rajdeep Sensarma

Based on the q-exponential distribution which has been observed in more and more physical systems, the varentropy method is used to derive the uncertainty measure of such an abnormal distribution function. The uncertainty measure obtained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Congjie Ou , Aziz El Kaabouchi , Qiuping A. Wang , Jincan Chen

Chater and MacKay [CM] derived an entropy function of state for exchange economies satisfying a list of axioms, and showed that a change of state of a system of such economies is possible if and only if their total entropy does not…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Robert S MacKay

The notion of {\em entanglement entropy} in quantum mechanical systems is an important quantity, which measures how much a physical state is entangled in a composite system. Mathematically, it measures how much the state vector is not…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Hee-Joong Chung , Dohyeong Kim , Minhyong Kim , Jeehoon Park , Hwajong Yoo

Subentropy is an entropy-like quantity that arises in quantum information theory; for example, it provides a tight lower bound on the accessible information for pure state ensembles, dual to the von Neumann entropy upper bound in Holevo's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Nilanjana Datta , Tony Dorlas , Richard Jozsa , Fabio Benatti

One of the outstanding problems in non-equilibrium physics is to precisely understand when and how physically relevant observables in many-body systems equilibrate under unitary time evolution. General equilibration results show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Henrik Wilming , Marcel Goihl , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert

We study quantum bipartite systems in a random pure state, where von Neumann entropy is considered as a measure of the entanglement. Expressions of the first and second exact cumulants of von Neumann entropy, relevant respectively to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Lu Wei

Compact expressions for the average subentropy and coherence are obtained for random mixed states that are generated via various probability measures. Surprisingly, our results show that the average subentropy of random mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Lin Zhang , Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati

The entanglement of a pure state of a pair of quantum systems is defined as the entropy of either member of the pair. The entanglement of formation of a mixed state is defined as the minimum average entanglement of an ensemble of pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 William K. Wootters

We calculate exactly the von Neumann and topological entropies of the toric code as a function of system size and temperature. We do so for systems with infinite energy scale separation between magnetic and electric excitations, so that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-30 C. Castelnovo , C. Chamon

In classical and quantum information theory, operational quantities such as the amount of randomness that can be extracted from a given source or the amount of space needed to store given data are normally characterized by one of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 Marco Tomamichel , Roger Colbeck , Renato Renner

We present a perturbative method to compute the ground state entanglement entropy for interacting systems. We apply it to a collective model of mutually interacting spins in a magnetic field. At the quantum critical point, the entanglement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-11 T. Barthel , S. Dusuel , J. Vidal

A pure quantum state can fully describe thermal equilibrium as long as one focuses on local observables. Thermodynamic entropy can also be recovered as the entanglement entropy of small subsystems. When the size of the subsystem increases,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-31 Yuya O. Nakagawa , Masataka Watanabe , Hiroyuki Fujita , Sho Sugiura

Problem of classification of all the set of entangled states is considered. Invariance of entangled states relative to transformations from a group of symmetry of qubit space leads to classification of all states of the system through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Constantin V. Usenko

We study the von Neumann and R\'enyi bipartite entanglement entropies in the thermodynamic limit of many-body quantum states with spin-s sites, that possess full symmetry under exchange of sites. It turns out that there is essentially a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

It is well-known that von Neumann entropy is nonmonotonic unlike Shannon entropy (which is monotonically nondecreasing). Consequently, it is difficult to relate the entropies of the subsystems of a given quantum state. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Pradeep Sarvepalli

The scaling of entanglement with subsystem size encodes key information about phases and criticality, but the von Neumann entropy is costly to access in experiments and simulations, often requiring full state tomography. The second R\'enyi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-09 Hatem Barghathi , Adrian Del Maestro

The entropy of an ordinary (photon) laser and an atom laser (Bose condensate) is calculated. In particular, the nonzero entropy of a single mode laser or maser operating near threshold is obtained. This result is to be compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Marlan Scully

A general upper bound for topological entropy of switched nonlinear systems is constructed, using an asymptotic average of upper limits of the matrix measures of Jacobian matrices of strongly persistent individual modes, weighted by their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Guosong Yang , Daniel Liberzon , João P. Hespanha