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In quantum information theory, von Neumann entropy plays an important role. The entropies can be obtained analytically only for a few states. In continuous variable system, even evaluating entropy numerically is not an easy task since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiao-yu Chen

A method of representing probabilistic aspects of quantum systems is introduced by means of a density function on the space of pure quantum states. In particular, a maximum entropy argument allows us to obtain a natural density function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. C. Brody , L. P. Hughston

It is shown that the von Neumann entropy, a measure of quantum entanglement, does have its classical counterpart in thermodynamic systems, which we call partial entropy. Close to the critical temperature the partial entropy shows perfect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Junpeng Cao , Xiaoling Cui , Zhang Qi , Wengang Lu , Qian Niu , Yupeng Wang

Given any finite set equipped with a probability measure, one may compute its Shannon entropy or information content. The entropy becomes the logarithm of the cardinality of the set when the uniform probability is used. Leinster introduced…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Stephanie Chen , Juan Pablo Vigneaux

This manuscript introduces a computationally efficient method to calculate the nonlinearity of a quantum feature map, as well as a method for determining whether a quantum feature map will have a high concentration of quantum states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Andrew Vlasic , Payal Solanki , Anh Pham

Shannon and Khinchin showed that assuming four information theoretic axioms the entropy must be of Boltzmann-Gibbs type, $S=-\sum_i p_i \log p_i$. Here we note that in physical systems one of these axioms may be violated. For non-ergodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Stefan Thurner , Rudolf Hanel

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

The problem of Shannon entropy estimation in countable infinite alphabets is addressed from the study and use of convergence results of the entropy functional, which is known to be discontinuous with respect to the total variation distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Jorge F. Silva

We propose a generalization of the quantum entropy introduced by Wigner and von Neumann in 1929 [Zeitschrift f\"ur Physik 57, 30 (1929)]. Our generalization is applicable to both quantum pure states and mixed states. When the dimension $N$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Zhigang Hu , Zhenduo Wang , Biao Wu

This paper investigates the relationship between categorical entropy and von Neumann entropy of quantum lattices. We begin by studying the von Neumann entropy, proving that the average von Neumann entropy per site converges to the logarithm…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-27 Haiqi Wu , Kai Xu

We show for a general pure entangled state of two two-level atoms, the von Neumann entropy of the partial traces can be directly measured from the magnitude of the mean spin vector of a single atom of the pair. We emphasize the fact that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Ram Narayan Deb

There are numerous characterizations of Shannon entropy and Tsallis entropy as measures of information obeying certain properties. Using work by Faddeev and Furuichi, we derive a very simple characterization. Instead of focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 John C. Baez , Tobias Fritz , Tom Leinster

Strong subadditivity of von Neumann entropy, proved in 1973 by Lieb and Ruskai, is a cornerstone of quantum coding theory. All other known inequalities for entropies of quantum systems may be derived from it. Here we prove a new inequality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Noah Linden , Andreas Winter

Given the algebra of observables of a quantum system subject to selection rules, a state can be represented by different density matrices. As a result, different von Neumann entropies can be associated with the same state. Motivated by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Paolo Facchi , Giovanni Gramegna , Arturo Konderak

The quantification of the complexity of networks is, today, a fundamental problem in the physics of complex systems. A possible roadmap to solve the problem is via extending key concepts of information theory to networks. In this paper we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Kartik Anand , Ginestra Bianconi

Stochastic thermodynamics extends classical thermodynamics to small systems in contact with one or more heat baths. It can account for the effects of thermal fluctuations and describe systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. A basic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-04 Momčilo Gavrilov , Raphaël Chétrite , John Bechhoefer

Even if a probability distribution is properly normalizable, its associated Shannon (or von Neumann) entropy can easily be infinite. We carefully analyze conditions under which this phenomenon can occur. Roughly speaking, this happens when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-04 Valentina Baccetti , Matt Visser

Many of the traditional results in information theory, such as the channel coding theorem or the source coding theorem, are restricted to scenarios where the underlying resources are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-28 Nilanjana Datta , Renato Renner

We present a somewhat different way of looking on Shannon entropy. This leads to an axiomatisation of Shannon entropy that is essentially equivalent to that of Fadeev. In particular we give a new proof of Fadeev theorem.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-16 Tomasz Sobieszek

Quantum information-theoretic approach has been identified as a way to understand the foundations of quantum mechanics as early as 1950 due to Shannon. However there hasn't been enough advancement or rigorous development of the subject. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Shubhayan Sarkar