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Regarding the strange properties of quantum entropy and entanglement, e.g., the negative quantum conditional entropy, we revisited the foundations of quantum entropy, namely, von Neumann entropy, and raised the new method of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Dong-Sheng Wang

Quantum many-body states that frequently appear in physics often obey an entropy scaling law, meaning that an entanglement entropy of a subsystem can be expressed as a sum of terms that scale linearly with its volume and area, plus a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Isaac H. Kim

We present a partition of quantum observables in an open quantum system which is inherited from the division of the underlying Hilbert space or configuration space. It is shown that this partition leads to the definition of an inhomogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Caleb M. Webb , Charles A. Stafford

Entropy is one of the most basic concepts in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The most widely used definition of statistical mechanical entropy for a quantum system is introduced by von Neumann. While in classical systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tian Qiu , Zhaoyu Fei , Rui Pan , Haitao Quan

The von Neumann entropy plays a vital role in quantum information theory. The von Neumann entropy determines, e.g., the capacities of quantum channels. Also, entropies of composite quantum systems are important for future quantum networks,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Christian Majenz

The novel concept of quantum logical entropy is presented and analyzed. We prove several basic properties of this entropy with regard to density matrices. We hereby motivate a different approach for the assignment of quantum entropy to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Boaz Tamir , Eliahu Cohen

We want to relate the concepts of entropy and pressure to that of KMS states for $C^*$-Algebras. Several different definitions of entropy are known in our days. The one we describe here is quite natural and extends the usual one for…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Gilles G. de Castro , Artur O. Lopes

The expression for the density operator of the damped harmonic oscillator is derived from the master equation in the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. Then the von Neumann entropy and effective temperature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Isar

A quantum statistical expression for the entropy of a nonequilibrium system is defined so as to be consistent with Gibbs' relation, and is shown to corresponds to dynamical variable by introducing analogous to the Heisenberg picture in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Hiroki Majima , Akira Suzuki

We compare the thermodynamic entropy of a quantum Brownian oscillator derived from the partition function of the subsystem with the von Neumann entropy of its reduced density matrix. At low temperatures we find deviations between these two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian Hoerhammer , Helmut Buettner

We argue from the point of view of statistical inference that the quantum relative entropy is a good measure for distinguishing between two quantum states (or two classes of quantum states) described by density matrices. We extend this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Vedral , M. B. Plenio , K. Jacobs , P. L. Knight

We describe an algebra of observables for a static patch in de Sitter space, with operators gravitationally dressed to the worldline of an observer. The algebra is a von Neumann algebra of Type II$_1$. There is a natural notion of entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-04 Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Roberto Longo , Geoff Penington , Edward Witten

In this paper, we review the concept of entropy in connection with the description of quantum unstable systems. We revise the conventional definition of entropy due to Boltzmann and extend it so as to include the presence of complex-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Osvaldo Civitarese , Manuel Gadella

This paper investigates the relationship between categorical entropy and von Neumann entropy of quantum lattices. We begin by studying the von Neumann entropy, proving that the average von Neumann entropy per site converges to the logarithm…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-27 Haiqi Wu , Kai Xu

In this paper we analyze the entropy and entropy production of a non-isolated quantum system described within the quantum Brownian motion framework. This is a very general and paradigmatic framework for describing non-isolated quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 G. A. Weiderpass , A. O. Caldeira

A pure quantum state can fully describe thermal equilibrium as long as one focuses on local observables. Thermodynamic entropy can also be recovered as the entanglement entropy of small subsystems. When the size of the subsystem increases,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-31 Yuya O. Nakagawa , Masataka Watanabe , Hiroyuki Fujita , Sho Sugiura

Observational entropy provides a general notion of quantum entropy that appropriately interpolates between Boltzmann's and Gibbs' entropies, and has recently been argued to provide a useful measure of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Francesco Buscemi , Joseph Schindler , Dominik Šafránek

Quantum information-theoretic approach has been identified as a way to understand the foundations of quantum mechanics as early as 1950 due to Shannon. However there hasn't been enough advancement or rigorous development of the subject. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Shubhayan Sarkar

This paper provides a systematic study of the operational idea that a quantum ``state'' is only defined up to what can be distinguished by a chosen family of observables. Concretely, any von Neumann algebra of observables $\mathscr{M}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Jan van Neerven , Marijn Waaijer

We introduce a composition of quantum states of a bipartite system which is based on the reshuffling of density matrices. This non-Abelian product is associative and stems from the composition of quantum maps acting on a simple quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wojciech Roga , Mark Fannes , Karol Zyczkowski