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We prove that Gaussian thermal input states minimize the output von Neumann entropy of the one-mode Gaussian quantum-limited attenuator for fixed input entropy. The Gaussian quantum-limited attenuator models the attenuation of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Giacomo De Palma , Dario Trevisan , Vittorio Giovannetti

Entropy notions for $\varepsilon$-incremental practical stability and incremental stability of deterministic nonlinear systems under disturbances are introduced. The entropy notions are constructed via a set of points in state space which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Michelle S. Chong

Information plays an important role in our understanding of the physical world. We hence propose an entropic measure of information for any physical theory that admits systems, states and measurements. In the quantum and classical world,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Anthony J. Short , Stephanie Wehner

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

Entropy stabilization of the compressible Euler system is achieved by adapting the averages that are applied to the density and internal energy variables. The approach achieves non-linear robustness despite the use of simplified symmetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh

The science of thermodynamics was put together in the Nineteenth Century to describe large systems in equilibrium. One part of thermodynamics defines entropy for equilibrium systems and demands an ever-increasing entropy for non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-26 Leo P. Kadanoff

Recently, Di\'osi et al. (Int. J. Quant. Inf. 4, 99 (2006)) introduced a simple, yet very interesting model for reservoirs, in order to study the relationship between thermodynamic entropy production of a system and the corresponding von…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 J. Z. Bernád , A. B. Frigyik

In this thesis, we present and discuss the quantum statistical foundations of relativistic hydrodynamics with special emphasis on the entropy current. We show that it is possible to provide a rigorous definition for this quantity in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-18 Davide Rindori

We develop a method of obtaining a hierarchy of new higher-order entropies in the context of compressible models with local and non-local diffusion and isentropic pressure. The local viscosity is allowed to degenerate as the density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Peter Constantin , Theodore D. Drivas , Roman Shvydkoy

This paper considers the problem of data compression for dependent quantum systems. It is the second in a series under the same title. As in the previous paper, we are interested in Lempel--Ziv encoding for quantum Gibbs ensembles. Here, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Oliver Johnson , Yuri Suhov

We study maximum-entropy inference for finite-dimensional quantum states under linear moment constraints. Given expectation values of finitely many observables, the feasible set of states is convex but typically non-unique. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 James Tian

Recent technological developments have focused the interest of the quantum computing community on investigating how near-term devices could outperform classical computers for practical applications. A central question that remains open is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Daniel Stilck Franca , Raul Garcia-Patron

In quantum information theory, von Neumann entropy plays an important role. The entropies can be obtained analytically only for a few states. In continuous variable system, even evaluating entropy numerically is not an easy task since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiao-yu Chen

Recent years have seen an enormously revived interest in the study of thermodynamic notions in the quantum regime. This applies both to the study of notions of work extraction in thermal machines in the quantum regime, as well as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 M. Perarnau-Llobet , A. Riera , R. Gallego , H. Wilming , J. Eisert

The entropy is one of the fundamental states of a fluid and, in the viscous case, the equation that it satisfies is highly singular in the region close to the vacuum. In spite of its importance in the gas dynamics, the mathematical analyses…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Jinkai Li , Zhouping Xin

We consider the Euler equations for compressible fluids in a nozzle whose cross-section is variable and may contain discontinuities. We view these equations as a hyperbolic system in nonconservative form and investigate weak solutions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-24 Dietmar Kroener , Philippe G. LeFloch , Mai-Duc Thanh

Theoretical understanding of the scaling of entropies and the mutual information has led to significant advances in the research of correlated states of matter, quantum field theory, and gravity. Measuring von Neumann entropy in quantum…

Small systems consisting of a few particles are increasingly technologically relevant. In such systems, an intense debate in microcanonical statistical mechanics has been about the correctness of Boltzmann's surface entropy versus Gibbs'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-20 Ananth Govind Rajan

Convex integration has revealed that the Euler system of gas dynamics is ill-posed in the class of weak solutions even if the entropy inequality is imposed as an additional constraint. A natural question arises, namely, if a physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Elisabetta Chiodaroli , Eduard Feireisl , Ondřej Kreml , Simon Markfelder

The Shannon entropy of a collection of random variables is subject to a number of constraints, the best-known examples being monotonicity and strong subadditivity. It remains an open question to decide which of these "laws of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 David Gross , Michael Walter