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Quantum information theory, particularly its entropic formulations, has made remarkable strides in characterizing quantum systems and tasks. However, a critical dimension remains underexplored: computational efficiency. While classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Noam Avidan , Thomas A. Hahn , Joseph M. Renes , Rotem Arnon

This article is a short review on the concept of information. We show the strong relation between Information Theory and Physics, and the differences between classical and quantum information, with emphasis in their manipulation through…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 F. L. Marquezino , R. R. Mello Junior

These lecture notes provide an introduction to quantum information and quantum computation, which are strongly related disciplines and subject of intense research. The lecture notes contain only a small selection of topics in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Christoph Dittel

The present work is an introductory study about entropy its properties and its role in quantum information theory. In a next work, we will use these results to the analysis of a quantum game described by a density operator and with its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Esteban Guevara Hidalgo

Quantum information theory is the study of the achievable limits of information processing within quantum mechanics. Many different types of information can be accommodated within quantum mechanics, including classical information, coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Nielsen

It is von Neumann who opened the window for today's Information epoch. He defined quantum entropy including Shannon's information more than 20 years ahead of Shannon, and he introduced a concept what computation means mathematically. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Ohya

The study of mutual entropy (information) and capacity in classica l system was extensively done after Shannon by several authors like Kolmogor ov and Gelfand. In quantum systems, there have been several definitions of t he mutual entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Ohya

Information theory establishes the fundamental limits on data transmission, storage, and processing. Quantum information theory unites information theoretic ideas with an accurate quantum-mechanical description of reality to give a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Andrew W. Cross , Ke Li , Graeme Smith

Quantum error-correcting codes are analyzed from an information-theoretic perspective centered on quantum conditional and mutual entropies. This approach parallels the description of classical error correction in Shannon theory, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Nicolas J. Cerf , Richard Cleve

In this paper we construct a theory of quantum mechanics based on Shannon information theory. We define a few principles regarding information-based frames of reference, including explicitly the concept of information covariance, and show…

General Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Joakim Munkhammar

Quantum information theory represents a rich subject of discussion for those interested in the philosphical and foundational issues surrounding quantum mechanics for a simple reason: one can cast its central concerns in terms of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher G Timpson

The information-theoretic representation of quantum systems, which complements the familiar energy description of the density-functional and wave-function-based theories, is here discussed. According to it, the internal disorder of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 J. S. Dehesa , D. Manzano , P. S. Sánchez-Moreno , R. J. Yáñez

We generalize the Shannon's information theory in a nonadditive way by focusing on the source coding theorem. The nonadditive information content we adopted is consistent with the concept of the form invariance structure of the nonextensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takuya Yamano

Recent tremendous development of quantum information theory led to a number of quantum technological projects, e.g., quantum random generators. This development stimulates a new wave of interest in quantum foundations. One of the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Andrei Khrennikov

The study of mutual entropy (information) and capacity in classica l system was extensively done after Shannon by several authors like Kolmogor ov and Gelfand. In quantum systems, there have been several definitions of t he mutual entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanori Ohya

In this article we discuss the formal structure of a generalized information theory based on the extension of the probability calculus of Kolmogorov to a (possibly) non-commutative setting. By studying this framework, we argue that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 F. Holik , G. M. Bosyk , G. Bellomo

In this article a notion of information is presented which stresses the contextuality of quantum objects and their measurement. Mathematically this is reached by a quantification of the quantum mechanical surplus knowledge which has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gesche Pospiech

Entropy is a famous and well established concept in physics and engineering that can be used for explanation of basic fundamentals as well it finds applications in several areas, from quantum physics to astronomy, from network communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 R. V. Ramos

Quantum information-theoretic approach has been identified as a way to understand the foundations of quantum mechanics as early as 1950 due to Shannon. However there hasn't been enough advancement or rigorous development of the subject. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Shubhayan Sarkar

It is shown on a simple classical model of a quantum particle at rest that information contained into the quantum state (quantum information) can be obtained by integrating the corresponding probability distribution on phase space, i.e. by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Nikolov