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We investigate quantum R\'enyi entropic quantities, specifically those derived from 'sandwiched' divergence. This divergence is one of several proposed R\'enyi generalisations of the quantum relative entropy. We may define R\'enyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alexander McKinlay

R\'enyi divergence is related to R\'enyi entropy much like information divergence (also called Kullback-Leibler divergence or relative entropy) is related to Shannon's entropy, and comes up in many settings. It was introduced by R\'enyi as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-28 Tim van Erven , Peter Harremoës

Quantum information decoupling is a fundamental primitive in quantum information theory, underlying various applications in quantum physics. We prove a novel one-shot decoupling theorem formulated in terms of quantum relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Mario Berta , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yongsheng Yao

Renyi Mutual information (RMI), computed from second Renyi entropies, can identify classical phase transitions from their finite-size scaling at the critical points. We apply this technique to examine the presence or absence of finite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-04 P. V. Sriluckshmy , Ipsita Mandal

We study the generic scaling properties of the mutual information between two disjoint intervals, in a class of one-dimensional quantum critical systems described by the c=1 bosonic field theory. A numerical analysis of a spin-chain model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-30 Shunsuke Furukawa , Vincent Pasquier , Jun'ichi Shiraishi

Quantum information theory has considerably helped in the understanding of quantum many-body systems. The role of quantum correlations and in particular, bipartite entanglement, has become crucial to characterise, classify and simulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Gabriele De Chiara , Anna Sanpera

The mutual information has been successfully used as a measure of correlation strength between quantum systems, especially for bipartite systems. Here we examine the use of this measure for multipartite quantum systems. For system of qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Simon James Daniel Phoenix

Quantum coherence is a fundamental common trait of quantum phenomena, from the interference of matter waves to quantum degeneracy of identical particles. Despite its importance, estimating and measuring quantum coherence in generic, mixed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-17 Irénée Frérot , Tommaso Roscilde

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) is a measure of conditional dependence between random variables X and Y, given another random variable Z. It can be used to quantify conditional dependence among variables in many data-driven inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Sudipto Mukherjee , Himanshu Asnani , Sreeram Kannan

Estimating mutual information (MI) is a fundamental yet challenging task in data science and machine learning. This work proposes a new estimator for mutual information. Our main discovery is that a preliminary estimate of the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yanzhi Chen , Zijing Ou , Adrian Weller , Yingzhen Li

By developing a method to represent the Renyi entropies via a replica-trick on classical statistical mechanical systems, we introduce a procedure to calculate the Renyi Mutual Information in any Monte Carlo simulation. Through simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-08 Jason Iaconis , Stephen Inglis , Ann B. Kallin , Roger G. Melko

The quantum entanglement $E$ of a bipartite quantum Ising chain is compared with the mutual information $I$ between the two parts after a local measurement of the classical spin configuration. As the model is conformally invariant, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jaegon Um , Hyunggyu Park , Haye Hinrichsen

There are no universally accepted definitions of R\'enyi conditional entropy and R\'enyi mutual information, although motivated by different applications, several definitions have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Shi-Bing Li , Ke Li , Lei Yu

The concept of causality is fundamental to numerous scientific explanations; however, its extension to the quantum regime has yet to be rigorously explored. This letter introduces the development of a quantum causal index, a novel extension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Anupam Ghosh

Mutual Information (MI) is a powerful statistical measure that quantifies shared information between random variables, particularly valuable in high-dimensional data analysis across fields like genomics, natural language processing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Andre O. Falcao

The thermal or equilibrium ensemble is one of the most ubiquitous states of matter. For models comprised of many locally interacting quantum particles, it describes a wide range of physical situations, relevant to condensed matter physics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Álvaro M. Alhambra

A practical use of the entanglement entropy in a 1d quantum system is to identify the conformal field theory describing its critical behavior. It is exactly $(c/3)\ln \ell$ for an interval of length $\ell$ in an infinite system, where $c$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-28 Jean-Marie Stéphan , Stephen Inglis , Paul Fendley , Roger G. Melko

We present a fluctuation theorem for quantum bipartite systems in which the subsystems exchange information with each other. Our information fluctuation theorem includes correlations by introducing a quantum mechanical mutual information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jung Jun Park , Sang Wook Kim , Vlatko Vedral

A theory of thermodynamics has been recently formulated and derived on the basis of R\'enyi entropy and its relative versions. In this framework, we define the concepts of partition function, internal energy and free energy, and fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Natália Bebiano , João da Providência , João Pinheiro da Providência