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We exhibit infinitely many new, constrained inequalities for the von Neumann entropy, and show that they are independent of each other and the known inequalities obeyed by the von Neumann entropy (basically strong subadditivity). The new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Josh Cadney , Noah Linden , Andreas Winter

Information entropies give a genuine way to characterize quantitatively an incompatibility in quantum measurements. Together with the Shannon entropy, few families of parametrized entropies have found use in various questions. It is also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

Calculating the Shannon entropy for symbolic sequences has been widely considered in many fields. For descriptive statistical problems such as estimating the N-gram entropy of English language text, a common approach is to use as much data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Andrew D. Back , Daniel Angus , Janet Wiles

In this paper, we present a theoretical discussion on AI deep learning neural network uncertainty investigation based on the classical Rademacher complexity and Shannon entropy. First it is shown that the classical Rademacher complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Mingyong Zhou

The correspondence principle plays a fundamental role in quantum mechanics, which naturally leads us to inquire whether it is possible to find or determine close classical analogs of quantum states in phase space -- a common meeting point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 A. S. Sanz

It is observed that the entropy reduction (the information gain in the initial terminology) of an efficient (ideal or pure) quantum measurement coincides with the generalized quantum mutual information of a q-c channel mapping an a priori…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. E. Shirokov

Perturbation theory is used to investigate the evolution of the von Neumann entropy of a subsystem of a bipartite quantum system under the action of a unitary matrix, in the limit where that matrix is close to the unit matrix. The physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Duncan MacIntyre , Gordon W. Semenoff

We study the behavior of a nonlinear semiclassical system using Shannon entropy and two approaches to statistical complexity. These systems involve the interaction between classical variables (representing the environment) and quantum ones.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Gaspar Gonzalez , Andrés M. Kowalski

In this paper we examine the average R\'{e}nyi entropy $S_{\alpha}$ of a subsystem $A$ when the whole composite system $AB$ is a random pure state. We assume that the Hilbert space dimensions of $A$ and $AB$ are $m$ and $m n$ respectively.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 MuSeong Kim , Mi-Ra Hwang , Eylee Jung , DaeKil Park

Reliable data-driven estimation of Shannon entropy from small data sets, where the number of examples is potentially smaller than the number of possible outcomes, is a critical matter in several applications. In this paper, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gabriel F. A. Bastos , Jugurta Montalvão

Shannon entropy, a cornerstone of information theory, statistical physics and inference methods, is uniquely identified by the Shannon-Khinchin or Shore-Johnson axioms. Generalizations of Shannon entropy, motivated by the study of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-20 Andrea Somazzi , Diego Garlaschelli

Analytic continuation of numerical data obtained in imaginary time or frequency has become an essential part of many branches of quantum computational physics. It is, however, an ill-conditioned procedure and thus a hard numerical problem.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-18 Dominic Bergeron , A. -M. S. Tremblay

Query complexity is a model of computation in which we have to compute a function $f(x_1, \ldots, x_N)$ of variables $x_i$ which can be accessed via queries. The complexity of an algorithm is measured by the number of queries that it makes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Andris Ambainis

The relative entropy between quantum states quantifies their distinguishability. The estimation of certain relative entropies has been investigated in the literature, e.g., the von Neumann relative entropy and sandwiched R\'enyi relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jinge Bao , Minbo Gao , Qisheng Wang

This article consists of a very short introduction to classical and quantum information theory. Basic properties of the classical Shannon entropy and the quantum von Neumann entropy are described, along with related concepts such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Edward Witten

Entanglement is considered a fundamental ingredient for quantum technologies and condensed matter systems are among the good candidates for quantum devices. For bipartite pure states the von Neumann entropy is a proper measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 T. Pauletti , M. Garcia , G. A. Canella , V. V. França

We study the fundamental problem of guessing cryptographic keys, drawn from some non-uniform probability distribution $D$, as e.g. in LPN, LWE or for passwords. The optimal classical algorithm enumerates keys in decreasing order of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Timo Glaser , Alexander May , Julian Nowakowski

We define a large class of quantum sources and prove a quantum analog of the asymptotic equipartition property. Our proof relies on using local measurements on the quantum source to obtain an associated classical source. The classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Christopher King , Andrzej Lesniewski

The electronic density \rho(r) in atoms, molecules and solids is, in general, a distribution that can be observed experimentally, containing spatial information projected from the total wave function. These density distributions can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 J. P. Restrepo Cuartas

Using the bitstring probabilities of ground states of bipartitioned ladders of Rydberg atoms, we calculate the mutual information, which is a lower bound on the corresponding bipartite von Neumann quantum entanglement entropy $S^{vN}_A$. We…