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We study the question of how reliably one can distinguish two quantum field theories (QFTs). Each QFT defines a probability distribution on the space of fields. The relative entropy provides a notion of proximity between these distributions…

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We present a general method for calculating R\'enyi entropies in the ground state of a one-dimensional critical system with mixed open boundaries, for an interval starting at one of its ends. In the conformal field theory framework, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We compute the quantum Renyi relative entropies in an infinite spinless fermionic chain with a defect. Doing a numerical analysis we will show that the resulting quantity depends non trivially on the effective central charge of the theory.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Raúl Arias

We investigate the ground state of a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory built with $M$ species of massless free Dirac fermions coupled at one boundary point via a conformal junction/interface. Each CFT represents a wire of finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Luca Capizzi , Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese

I compute the leading contribution to the ground state Renyi entropy $S_{\alpha}$ for a region of linear size $L$ in a Fermi liquid. The result contains a universal boundary law violating term simply related the more familiar entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 Brian Swingle

Quantum information decoupling is a fundamental primitive in quantum information theory, underlying various applications in quantum physics. We prove a novel one-shot decoupling theorem formulated in terms of quantum relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Mario Berta , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yongsheng Yao

Despite being a well-established operational approach to quantify entanglement, R\'enyi entropy calculations have been plagued by their computational complexity. We introduce here a theoretical framework based on an optimal thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier

We investigate the question of whether the entropy and the Renyi entropies of the vacuum state reduced to a region of the space can be represented in terms of correlators in quantum field theory. In this case, the positivity relations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Casini

The leading term for the mutual R\'enyi information is studied for two widely separated identical compound systems for free scalar fields in $(d+1)$ Euclidean space. The compound system consists of two identical spheres in contact, with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-04 Howard J. Schnitzer

A variety of new measures of quantum Renyi mutual information and quantum Renyi conditional entropy have recently been proposed, and some of their mathematical properties explored. Here, we show that the Renyi mutual information attains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Masahito Hayashi , Marco Tomamichel

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

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Entanglement measures such as the entanglement entropy have become an indispensable tool to identify the fundamental character of ground states of interacting quantum many-body systems. For systems of interacting spin or bosonic degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-27 Peter Broecker , Simon Trebst

We analyze entanglement between quantum interacting fields. In particular, we use R\'enyi entropy to quantify the entanglement between the fields in the ground state of the linear $\sigma$ model. We adopt R\'enyi entropy because the failure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniele Teresi , Giuseppe Compagno

We demonstrate that the Renyi-2 entropy provides a natural measure of information for any multimode Gaussian state of quantum harmonic systems, operationally linked to the phase-space Shannon sampling entropy of the Wigner distribution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 Gerardo Adesso , Davide Girolami , Alessio Serafini

The conditional quantum mutual information $I(A;B|C)$ of a tripartite state $\rho_{ABC}$ is an information quantity which lies at the center of many problems in quantum information theory. Three of its main properties are that it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Mario Berta , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Mark M. Wilde

Renyi Mutual information (RMI), computed from second Renyi entropies, can identify classical phase transitions from their finite-size scaling at the critical points. We apply this technique to examine the presence or absence of finite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-04 P. V. Sriluckshmy , Ipsita Mandal

We consider the generalization of the Araki-Uhlmann formula for relative entropy to Petz-R\'enyi relative entropy. We compute this entropy for a free scalar field in the Minkowski wedge between the vacuum and a coherent state, as well as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Markus B. Fröb , Leonardo Sangaletti

The information-geometric origin of fidelity susceptibility and its utility as a universal probe of quantum criticality in many-body settings have been widely discussed. Here we explore the metric response of quantum relative entropy (QRE),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-15 Pritam Sarkar , Diptiman Sen , Arnab Sen

The concept of causality is fundamental to numerous scientific explanations; however, its extension to the quantum regime has yet to be rigorously explored. This letter introduces the development of a quantum causal index, a novel extension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Anupam Ghosh

Quantum conditional mutual information (QCMI) is a versatile information theoretic measure. It is used to find the amount of correlations between two qubits from the perspective of a third qubit. In this work we characterise the QCMI of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 H Saveetha , Peter P. Rohde , R Chandrashekar