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The primary entropic measures for quantum states are additive under the tensor product. In the analysis of quantum information processing tasks, the minimum entropy of a set of states, e.g., the minimum output entropy of a channel, often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Omar Fawzi , Jan Kochanowski , Cambyse Rouzé , Thomas Van Himbeeck

We study the approximation of a Markov chain on a reduced state space, for both discrete- and continuous-time Markov chains. In this context, we extend the existing theory of formal error bounds for the approximated transient distributions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Fabian Michel , Markus Siegle

Uniform continuity bounds on entropies are generally expressed in terms of a single distance measure between a pair of probability distributions or quantum states, typically, the total variation distance or trace distance. However, if an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Michael G. Jabbour , Nilanjana Datta

We investigate the asymptotic equipartition property (AEP) in the context of multipartite entanglement measures on pure states. Specifically, we formulate AEP for subadditive entanglement measures that admit certain weak conditions. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Dávid Bugár

Estimating the entropy based on data is one of the prototypical problems in distribution property testing and estimation. For estimating the Shannon entropy of a distribution on $S$ elements with independent samples, [Paninski2004] showed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Yanjun Han , Jiantao Jiao , Chuan-Zheng Lee , Tsachy Weissman , Yihong Wu , Tiancheng Yu

The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Maciej Skorski

This study considers the unconditional smooth R\'{e}nyi entropy, the smooth conditional R\'{e}nyi entropy proposed by Kuzuoka [\emph{IEEE Trans.\ Inf.\ Theory}, vol.~66, no.~3, pp.~1674--1690, 2020], and a new quantity which we term the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Yuta Sakai , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We introduce the problem of \emph{entropy equivalence testing} for probability distributions, a relaxation of the well-studied closeness testing problem, where the distribution testing algorithm is now only required to distinguish, given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Clément L. Canonne , Yash Pote , Jonathan Scarlett , Joy Qiping Yang

We study quantum soft covering and privacy amplification against quantum side information. The former task aims to approximate a quantum state by sampling from a prior distribution and querying a quantum channel. The latter task aims to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Yu-Chen Shen , Li Gao , Hao-Chung Cheng

For a system randomly prepared in a number of quantum states, we present a lower bound for the distinguishability of the quantum states, that is, the success probability of determining the states in the form of entropy. When the states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Seungho Yang , Jinhyoung Lee , Hyunseok Jeong

This thesis addresses the interplay between asymptotic hypothesis testing and entropy inequalities in quantum information theory. In the first part of the thesis we focus on hypothesis testing. We consider two main settings; one can either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Christoph Hirche

We conclude a sequence of work by giving near-optimal sketching and streaming algorithms for estimating Shannon entropy in the most general streaming model, with arbitrary insertions and deletions. This improves on prior results that obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jelani Nelson , Krzysztof Onak

We study the notion of approximate entropy within the framework of network theory. Approximate entropy is an uncertainty measure originally proposed in the context of dynamical systems and time series. We firstly define a purely structural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 James West , Lucas Lacasa , Simone Severini , Andrew Teschendorff

Smooth entropies are a tool for quantifying resource trade-offs in (quantum) information theory and cryptography. In typical bi- and multi-partite problems, however, some of the sub-systems are often left unchanged and this is not reflected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Anurag Anshu , Mario Berta , Rahul Jain , Marco Tomamichel

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

Relative entropy is the standard measure of distinguishability in classical and quantum information theory. In the classical case, its loss under channels admits an exact chain rule, while in the quantum case only asymptotic, regularized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Giulio Gasbarri , Matt Hoogsteder-Riera

Compact expressions for the average subentropy and coherence are obtained for random mixed states that are generated via various probability measures. Surprisingly, our results show that the average subentropy of random mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Lin Zhang , Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati

We discuss the possibility of estimating experimentally the von Neumann entanglement entropy $S_{A}^{vN}$ of a symmetric bi-partite quantum system $AB$ by using the basic measurement counts (bitstrings) for a $single$ copy of a prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Yannick Meurice

A fundamental task in quantum information is to approximate a pure quantum state in terms of sparse states or, for a bipartite system, states of bounded Schmidt rank. The optimal deterministic approximation in each case is straightforward,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Aram W. Harrow , Angus Lowe , Freek Witteveen

In classical and quantum information theory, operational quantities such as the amount of randomness that can be extracted from a given source or the amount of space needed to store given data are normally characterized by one of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 Marco Tomamichel , Roger Colbeck , Renato Renner