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Weakly almost i.i.d. quantum sources are sequences of multipartite states whose fixed-size marginals converge, on average, to tensor powers of a reference state, while allowing arbitrary global correlations and entanglement. We establish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Nilanjana Datta

It is well-known that von Neumann entropy is nonmonotonic unlike Shannon entropy (which is monotonically nondecreasing). Consequently, it is difficult to relate the entropies of the subsystems of a given quantum state. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Pradeep Sarvepalli

Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities generalize Shannon's chain rule for entropy as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Prasad Tetali

We describe a numerical algorithm for approximating the equilibrium-reduced density matrix and the effective (mean force) Hamiltonian for a set of system spins coupled strongly to a set of bath spins when the total system (system+bath) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Tyler Chen , Yu-Chen Cheng

The paper analyzes the probability distribution of the occupancy numbers and the entropy of a system at the equilibrium composed by an arbitrary number of non-interacting bosons. The probability distribution is derived both by tracing out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Arnaldo Spalvieri

Quantum-inspired classical algorithms has received much attention due to its exponential speedup compared to existing algorithms, under certain data storage assumptions. The improvements are noticeable in fundamental linear algebra tasks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee

We review a new form of entropy suggested by us, with origin in mixing of states of systems due to interactions and deformations of phase cells. It is demonstrated that this nonextensive form also leads to asymmetric maximal entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-16 Fariel Shafee

Compressed Counting (CC)} was recently proposed for approximating the $\alpha$th frequency moments of data streams, for $0<\alpha \leq 2$. Under the relaxed strict-Turnstile model, CC dramatically improves the standard algorithm based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-21 Ping Li

We investigate the concept of entropy in probabilistic theories more general than quantum mechanics, with particular reference to the notion of information causality recently proposed by Pawlowski et. al. (arXiv:0905.2992). We consider two…

Uncertainty quantification is a key aspect in many tasks such as model selection/regularization, or quantifying prediction uncertainties to perform active learning or OOD detection. Within credal approaches that consider modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Tuan-Anh Vu , Sébastien Destercke , Frédéric Pichon

In this paper we provide new quantum algorithms with polynomial speed-up for a range of problems for which no such results were known, or we improve previous algorithms. First, we consider the approximation of the frequency moments $F_k$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Yassine Hamoudi , Frédéric Magniez

We study the problem of generating a random variate $X$ from a finite discrete probability distribution $P$ using an entropy source of independent fair coin flips. A classic result from Knuth and Yao shows that the optimal expected number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thomas L. Draper , Feras A. Saad

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

Efficient estimation of nonlinear functions of quantum states is crucial for various key tasks in quantum computing, such as entanglement spectroscopy, fidelity estimation, and feature analysis of quantum data. Conventional methods using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Hongshun Yao , Yingjian Liu , Tengxiang Lin , Xin Wang

Measuring incomplete sets of mutually unbiased bases constitutes a sensible approach to the tomography of high-dimensional quantum systems. The unbiased nature of these bases optimizes the uncertainty hypervolume. However, imposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , Y. S. Teo , L. L. Sanchez-Soto , H. K. Ng , J. H. Chai , B. -G. Englert

Analysis of a probabilistic system often requires to learn the joint probability distribution of its random variables. The computation of the exact distribution is usually an exhaustive precise analysis on all executions of the system. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Fabrizio Biondi , Yusuke Kawamoto , Axel Legay , Louis-Marie Traonouez

We present a quantum algorithm to compute the entanglement spectrum of arbitrary quantum states. The interesting universal part of the entanglement spectrum is typically contained in the largest eigenvalues of the density matrix which can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Sonika Johri , Damian S. Steiger , Matthias Troyer

The von Neumann entanglement entropy is studied with the density-matrix renormalization group technique. We propose a simple approach to calculate the central charge using the entanglement entropy for one-dimensional (1D) quantum system.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 Satoshi Nishimoto

Shannon's entropy is one of the building blocks of information theory and an essential aspect of Machine Learning methods (e.g., Random Forests). Yet, it is only finitely defined for distributions with fast decaying tails on a countable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Jialin Zhang , Jingyi Shi

We present a quasi-Newton method for unconstrained stochastic optimization. Most existing literature on this topic assumes a setting of stochastic optimization in which a finite sum of component functions is a reasonable approximation of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Matt Menickelly , Stefan M. Wild , Miaolan Xie