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Quantum entanglement is one essential element to characterize many-body quantum systems. However, the entanglement measures are mostly discussed in Hermitian systems. Here, we propose a natural extension of entanglement and R\'enyi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-15 Yi-Ting Tu , Yu-Chin Tzeng , Po-Yao Chang

In this article, we present quantum algorithms for estimating von Neumann entropy and Renyi entropy, which are crucial physical and information-theoretical properties of a given quantum state $\rho$. Although there have been existing works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

It was recently shown that estimating the Shannon entropy $H({\rm p})$ of a discrete $k$-symbol distribution ${\rm p}$ requires $\Theta(k/\log k)$ samples, a number that grows near-linearly in the support size. In many applications $H({\rm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Jayadev Acharya , Alon Orlitsky , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Himanshu Tyagi

The states of the qubit, the basic unit of quantum information, are $2 \times 2$ positive semi-definite Hermitian matrices with trace 1. We contribute to the program to axiomatize quantum mechanics by characterizing these states in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura , Stuart Zoble

The entanglement properties of random quantum states or dynamics are important to the study of a broad spectrum of disciplines of physics, ranging from quantum information to high energy and many-body physics. This work investigates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Zi-Wen Liu , Seth Lloyd , Elton Yechao Zhu , Huangjun Zhu

This paper presents an enhanced post-quantum key agreement protocol based on R\'{e}nyi entropy, addressing vulnerabilities in the original construction while preserving information-theoretic security properties. We develop a theoretical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ruopengyu Xu , Chenglian Liu

We revisit the well-studied problem of estimating the Shannon entropy of a probability distribution, now given access to a probability-revealing conditional sampling oracle. In this model, the oracle takes as input the representation of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Priyanka Golia , Brendan Juba , Kuldeep S. Meel

The entropy of probability distribution defined by Shannon has several extensions. R\'enyi entropy is one of the general extensions of Shannon entropy and is widely used in engineering, physics, and so on. On the other hand, the quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Farrukh Mukhamedov , Kyouhei Ohmura , Noboru Watanabe

Estimating nonlinear properties such as R\'enyi entropies and observable-weighted moments serves as a central strategy for spectrum spectroscopy, which is fundamental to property prediction and analysis in quantum information science,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Xiao Shi , Jiyu Jiang , Xian Wu , Jingu Xie , Hongshun Yao , Xin Wang

We propose a series of quantum algorithms for computing a wide range of quantum entropies and distances, including the von Neumann entropy, quantum R\'{e}nyi entropy, trace distance, and fidelity. The proposed algorithms significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Qisheng Wang , Ji Guan , Junyi Liu , Zhicheng Zhang , Mingsheng Ying

In this paper we study certain properties of R\'{e}nyi entropy functionals $H_\alpha(\mathcal{P})$ on the space of probability distributions over $\mathbb{Z}_+$. Primarily, continuity and convergence issues are addressed. Some properties…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Ivan Stanojević , Vojin Šenk

We develop a flexible and robust framework for finite-size security proofs of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols under coherent attacks, applicable to both fixed- and variable-length protocols. Our approach achieves high finite-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Lars Kamin , John Burniston , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan

Discrete stochastic processes (DSP) are instrumental for modelling the dynamics of probabilistic systems and have a wide spectrum of applications in science and engineering. DSPs are usually analyzed via Monte Carlo methods since the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Carsten Blank , Daniel K. Park , Francesco Petruccione

In his seminal work on recording quantum queries [Crypto 2019], Zhandry studied interactions between quantum query algorithms and the quantum oracle corresponding to random functions. Zhandry presented a framework for interpreting various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Ansis Rosmanis

We present new methods for assessing the privacy guarantees of an algorithm with regard to R\'enyi Differential Privacy. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to address this problem in a black-box scenario, where only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Tim Kutta , Önder Askin , Martin Dunsche

A fundamental problem in statistics and learning theory is to test properties of distributions. We show that quantum computers can solve such problems with significant speed-ups. In particular, we give fast quantum algorithms for testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 András Gilyén , Tongyang Li

Modern statistical estimation is often performed in a distributed setting where each sample belongs to a single user who shares their data with a central server. Users are typically concerned with preserving the privacy of their samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Róbert Busa-Fekete , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Andres Muñoz Medina , Umar Syed

While quantum computing provides an exponential advantage in solving linear differential equations, there are relatively few quantum algorithms for solving nonlinear differential equations. In our work, based on the homotopy perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Cheng Xue , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

We develop a general theoretical framework for measurement protocols employing statistical correlations of randomized measurements. We focus on locally randomized measurements implemented with local random unitaries in quantum lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Andreas Elben , Benoît Vermersch , Christian F. Roos , Peter Zoller

We give a technique to reduce the error probability of quantum algorithms that determine whether its input has a specified property of interest. The standard process of reducing this error is statistical processing of the results of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Debajyoti Bera , Tharrmashastha P.