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"Strength" is an important property of inequalities used in mixed-integer optimization, both in theory and practice. Unfortunately, no good formal characterization for strength exists, nor is it well-understood. The first paper explored two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-09 David M. Warme

We propose and analyze numerical schemes for the gradient flow of $Q$-tensor with the quasi-entropy. The quasi-entropy is a strictly convex, rotationally invariant elementary function, giving a singular potential constraining the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Yanli Wang , Jie Xu

The entropy of a quantum system is a measure of its randomness, and has applications in measuring quantum entanglement. We study the problem of measuring the von Neumann entropy, $S(\rho)$, and R\'enyi entropy, $S_\alpha(\rho)$ of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jayadev Acharya , Ibrahim Issa , Nirmal V. Shende , Aaron B. Wagner

Comparison-based algorithms are algorithms for which the execution of each operation is solely based on the outcome of a series of comparisons between elements. Comparison-based computations can be naturally represented via the following…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Michel Schellekens

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tristan Montoya , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

The uncertainty relation based on the Shannon entropies of the probability densities in position and momentum spaces is improved for quantum systems in arbitrary $D$-dimensional spherically symmetric potentials. To find it, we have used the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Łukasz Rudnicki , Pablo Sánchez-Moreno , Jesús S. Dehesa

Researchers have proposed formal definitions of quantitative information flow based on information theoretic notions such as the Shannon entropy, the min entropy, the guessing entropy, and channel capacity. This paper investigates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-02 Hirotoshi Yasuoka , Tachio Terauchi

Recently it was shown that if a given state fulfils the reduction criterion it must also satisfy the known entropic inequalities. Now the questions arises whether on the assumption that stronger criteria based on positive but not completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-13 Remigiusz Augusiak , Julia Stasińska , Pawel Horodecki

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

The Shannon entropy is a fundamental measure for quantifying diversity and model complexity in fields such as information theory, ecology, and genetics. However, many existing studies assume that the number of species is known, an…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-23 Takato Hashino , Koji Tsukuda

We establish a quantum version of the classical isoperimetric inequality relating the Fisher information and the entropy power of a quantum state. The key tool is a Fisher information inequality for a state which results from a certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Stefan Huber , Robert Koenig , Anna Vershynina

A unified formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference in both the classical and the quantum regimes. The theory is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-20 Ahmad Yousefi

We study the scaling of the entanglement entropy in different classes of one-dimensional fermionic quasiperiodic systems with and without pairing, focusing on multifractal critical points/phases. We find that the entanglement entropy scales…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-12 Miguel Gonçalves

While the success of density functional theory (DFT) has led to its use in a wide variety of fields such as physics, chemistry, materials science and biochemistry, it has long been recognised that conventional methods are very inefficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Bowler , R. Choudhury , M. J. Gillan , T. Miyazaki

Information has an entropic character which can be analyzed within the Statistical Theory in molecular systems. R. Landauer and C.H. Bennett showed that a logical copy can be carried out in the limit of no dissipation if the computation is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-08-15 J. Ricardo Arias-Gonzalez

We prove an inequality for the entropy numbers in terms of nonlinear Kolmogorov's widths. This inequality is in a spirit of known inequalities of this type and it is adjusted to the form convenient in applications for $m$-term…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Vladimir Temlyakov

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations for fermions are becoming the standard to provide high quality reference data in systems that are too large to be investigated via quantum chemical approaches. DMC with the fixed-node approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Andrea Zen , Sandro Sorella , Michael J. Gillan , Angelos Michaelides , Dario Alfè

While most useful information theoretic inequalities can be deduced from the basic properties of entropy or mutual information, Shannon's entropy power inequality (EPI) seems to be an exception: available information theoretic proofs of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Olivier Rioul

Estimating the entropy of a discrete random variable is a fundamental problem in information theory and related fields. This problem has many applications in various domains, including machine learning, statistics and data compression. Over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yuval Shalev , Amichai Painsky , Irad Ben-Gal

In noncommutative probability theory independence can be based on free products instead of tensor products. This yields a highly noncommutative theory: free probability . Here we show that the classical Shannon's entropy power inequality…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Stanislaw J. Szarek , D. Voiculescu