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Coherence is a fundamental ingredient in quantum physics and a key resource in quantum information processing. The quantification of quantum coherence is of great importance. We present a family of coherence quantifiers based on the Tsallis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Meng-Li Guo , Zhi-Xiang Jin , Bo Li , Bin Hu , Shao-Ming Fei

In this paper we introduce an easy to compute upper bound on the Tsallis entropy of a density matrix describing a system coupled to a noise source. This suggests that the Tsallis entropy is most natural in the context of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Boaz Tamir

We introduce a fractional generalization of Tsallis entropy by acting with a $q$-Caputo operator on the generating family $\sum_i p_i^{\,x}$ evaluated at $x=1$. Concretely, we define $S_{q}^{\alpha}$ through the $q$-Caputo differintegral of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Matias P. Gonzalez , Micolta-Riascos Bayron

We provide an upper bound on the maximal entropy rate at which the entropy of the expected density operator of a given ensemble of two states changes under nonlocal unitary evolution. A large class of entropy measures in considered, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Anna Vershynina

We revisit the derivation of a formula for the $q$-generalised multinomial coefficient rooted in the $q$-deformed algebra, a foundational framework in the study of nonextensive statistics. Previous approximate expressions in the literature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Keisuke Okamura

We propose a series of quantum algorithms for computing a wide range of quantum entropies and distances, including the von Neumann entropy, quantum R\'{e}nyi entropy, trace distance, and fidelity. The proposed algorithms significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Qisheng Wang , Ji Guan , Junyi Liu , Zhicheng Zhang , Mingsheng Ying

The probability operator is derived from first principles for an equilibrium quantum system. It is also shown that the superposition states collapse into a mixture of states giving the conventional von Neumann trace form for the quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-09 Phil Attard

This manuscript introduces a computationally efficient method to calculate the nonlinearity of a quantum feature map, as well as a method for determining whether a quantum feature map will have a high concentration of quantum states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Andrew Vlasic , Payal Solanki , Anh Pham

The measurement statistics for spatial and temporal quantum processes are produced through distinct mechanisms. Measurements that are space-like separated exhibit non-signaling behavior. However, time-like separated measurements can only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Zhian Jia , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

The Esscher Transform is a tool of broad utility in various domains of applied probability. It provides the solution to a constrained minimum relative entropy optimization problem. In this work, we study the generalization of the Esscher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yixian Qiu , Kelvin Koor , Patrick Rebentrost

This paper presents a general method for producing randomly perturbed density operators subject to different sets of constraints. The perturbed density operators are a specified "distance" away from the state described by the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 J. A. Montanez-Barrera , R. T. Holladay , G. P. Beretta , Michael R. von Spakovsky

We find the value of constants related to constraints in characterization of some known statistical distributions and then we proceed to use the idea behind maximum entropy principle to derive generalized version of this distributions using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oscar Sotolongo-Costa , Alejandro Gonzalez Gonzalez , Francois Brouers

A general formulation of noncommutative or quantum derivatives for operators in a Banach space is given on the basis of the Leibniz rule, irrespective of their explicit representations such as the G\^ateaux derivative or commutators. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Masuo Suzuki

Based on the problem of quantum data compression in a lossless way, we present here an operational interpretation for the family of quantum R\'enyi entropies. In order to do this, we appeal to a very general quantum encoding scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 G. Bellomo , G. M. Bosyk , F. Holik , S. Zozor

We generalize the usual exponential Boltzmann factor to any reasonable and potentially observable distribution function, $B(E)$. By defining generalized logarithms $\Lambda$ as inverses of these distribution functions, we are led to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudolf Hanel , Stefan Thurner

Generalized numbers, arithmetic operators and derivative operators, grouped in four classes based on symmetry features, are introduced. Their building element is the pair of $q$-logarithm/$q$-exponential inverse functions. Some of the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Ernesto P. Borges , Bruno G. da Costa

Estimating quantum entropies and divergences is an important problem in quantum physics, information theory, and machine learning. Quantum neural estimators (QNEs), which utilize a hybrid classical-quantum architecture, have recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Mark M. Wilde

We define the entropy operator as the negative of the logarithm of the density matrix, give a prescription for extracting its thermodynamically measurable part, and discuss its dynamics. For an isolated system we derive the first, second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 E. Solano-Carrillo , A. J. Millis

We present a reduced density operator for electronically open molecules by explicitly averaging over the environmental degrees of freedom of the composite Hamiltonian. Specifically, we include the particle-number non-conserving…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jacob Pedersen , Bendik Støa Sannes , Ida-Marie Høyvik

It is by now well known that the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) entropy $S_{BG}=-k\sum_{i=1}^W p_i \ln p_i$ can be usefully generalized into the entropy $S_q=k (1-\sum_{i=1}^Wp_i^{q}) / (q-1)$ ($q\in \mathcal{R}; S_1=S_{BG}$). Microscopic dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giorgos-Artemios Tsekouras , Constantino Tsallis