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The uncertainty principle brings out intrinsic quantum bounds on the precision of measuring non-commuting observables. Statistical outcomes in the measurement of incompatible observables reveal a trade-off on the sum of corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-11 H. S. Karthik , A. R. Usha Devi , J. Prabhu Tej , A. K. Rajagopal

The uncertainty principle can be expressed in entropic terms, also taking into account the role of entanglement in reducing uncertainty. The information exclusion principle bounds instead the correlations that can exist between the outcomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Patrick J. Coles , Marco Piani

We study the excess of (Renyi) entanglement entropy in various free field theories for the locally excited states defined by acting with local operators on the ground state. It is defined by subtracting the entropy for the ground state from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Masahiro Nozaki , Naoki Watamura

Quantifying quantum mechanical uncertainty is vital for the increasing number of experiments that reach the uncertainty limited regime. We present a method for computing tight variance uncertainty relations, i.e., the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 René Schwonnek , Lars Dammeier , Reinhard F. Werner

Uncertainty relations describe the lower bound of product of standard deviations of observables. By revealing a connection between standard deviations of quantum observables and numerical radius of operators, we establish a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Jinchuan Hou , Kan He

We consider the question of entropic uncertainty relations for prime power dimensions. In order to improve upon such uncertainty relations for higher dimensional quantum systems, we derive a tight lower bound amount of entropy for multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 Jakob Funder

We formulate an infinite hierarchy of continuous-variable separability criteria in terms of quasiprobability distributions and their derivatives evaluated at individual points in phase space. Our approach is equivalent to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Elena Callus , Martin Gärttner , Tobias Haas

Commutator-based entropic uncertainty relations in multidimensional position and momentum spaces are derived, twofold generalizing previous entropic uncertainty relations for one-mode states. They provide optimal lower bounds and imply the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Yichen Huang

The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum side information (EUR-QSI) from [Berta et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 659 (2010)] is a unifying principle relating two distinctive features of quantum mechanics: quantum uncertainty due to measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Mario Berta , Stephanie Wehner , Mark M. Wilde

The Araki-Lieb inequality is commonly used to calculate the entropy of subsystems when they are initially in pure states as this forces the entropy of the two subsystems to be equal after the complete system evolves. Then, it is easy to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Jorge A. Anaya-Contreras , Héctor M. Moya-Cessa , Arturo Zúñiga-Segundo

Uncertainty relations give upper bounds on the accuracy by which the outcomes of two incompatible measurements can be predicted. While established uncertainty relations apply to cases where the predictions are based on purely classical data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Marco Tomamichel , Renato Renner

The well-known Heisenberg--Robertson uncertainty relation for a pair of noncommuting observables, is expressed in terms of the product of variances and the commutator among the operators, computed for the quantum state of a system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 David Puertas Centeno , Mariela Portesi

Formalising the confrontation of opinions (models) to observations (data) is the task of Inferential Statistics. Information Theory provides us with a basic functional, the relative entropy (or Kullback-Leibler divergence), an asymmetrical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 François Bavaud

Relative entropy is a fundamental class of distances between probability distributions, with widespread applications in probability theory, statistics, and machine learning. In this work, we study relative entropy from a categorical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ralph Sarkis , Fabio Zanasi

In this article, we generalize a proof technique by Alicki, Fannes and Winter and introduce a method to prove continuity bounds for entropic quantities derived from different quantum relative entropies. For the Umegaki relative entropy, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Andreas Bluhm , Ángela Capel , Paul Gondolf , Antonio Pérez-Hernández

Quantum measurements are inherently probabilistic and quantum theory often forbids to precisely predict the outcomes of simultaneous measurements. This phenomenon is captured and quantified through uncertainty relations. Although studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Carlos de Gois , Kiara Hansenne , Otfried Gühne

For classic systems, the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) states that the fluctuations of a current have a lower bound in terms of the entropy production. Some TURs are rooted in information theory, particularly derived from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Domingos S. P. Salazar

Husimi distributions and Wigner distributions are well-known quasi-probability distributions which appear in several contexts. In this paper, we show some remarkable aspects of these distribution functions related to geometric structures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 Ryo Harada

Relative entropy serves as a cornerstone concept in quantum information theory. In this work, we study relative entropy of random states from major generic state models of Hilbert-Schmidt and Bures-Hall ensembles. In particular, we derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lu Wei

Various theories that aim at unifying gravity with quantum mechanics suggest modifications of the Heisenberg algebra for position and momentum. From the perspective of quantum mechanics, such modifications lead to new uncertainty relations…