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A two parameter generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon entropy based on natural logarithm is introduced. The generalization of the Shannon-Kinchinn axioms corresponding to the two parameter entropy is proposed and verified. We present…

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When quantifying the mixing properties of a quantum dynamical system in terms of dynamical entropy, the following scheme appears natural: observe the state of the system at regular time intervals while it evolves and determine the entropy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 M. Fannes , B. Haegeman , D. Vanpeteghem

Shannon entropy was defined for probability distributions and then its using was expanded to measure the uncertainty of knowledge for systems with complete information. In this article, it is proposed to extend the using of Shannon entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Vasile Patrascu

A new concept named nonsymmetric entropy which generalizes the concepts of Boltzman's entropy and shannon's entropy, was introduced. Maximal nonsymmetric entropy principle was proven. Some important distribution laws were derived naturally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chengshi Liu

The chain rule for the Shannon and von Neumann entropy, which relates the total entropy of a system to the entropies of its parts, is of central importance to information theory. Here we consider the chain rule for the more general smooth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Alexander Vitanov , Frederic Dupuis , Marco Tomamichel , Renato Renner

We address the problem of quantifying the information content of a source for an arbitrary information theory, where the information content is defined in terms of the asymptotic achievable compression rate. The functions that solve this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Paolo Perinotti , Alessandro Tosini , Leonardo Vaglini

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

We present a method to measure the von Neumann entanglement entropy of ground states of quantum many-body systems which does not require access to the system wave function. The technique is based on a direct thermodynamic study of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 T. Mendes-Santos , G. Giudici , R. Fazio , M. Dalmonte

We review the derivation of quantum theory as an application of entropic methods of inference. The new contribution in this paper is a streamlined derivation of the Schr\"odinger equation based on a different choice of microstates and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ariel Caticha

We prove a generalization of the strong subadditivity of the von Neumann entropy for bosonic quantum Gaussian systems. Such generalization determines the minimum values of linear combinations of the entropies of subsystems associated to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Giacomo De Palma , Dario Trevisan

A renormalized version of the von Neumann quantum entropy (which is finite and continuous in general, infinite dimensional case) and which obeys several of the natural physical demands (as expected for a "good" measure of entanglement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Roman Gielerak

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

We consider the bipartite state of a two-photon polarization system and obtain the exact analytical expression for the von Neumann entropy in the particular case of a 5-parameter polarization density matrix. We investigate and graphically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Moorad Alexanian , Vanik E. Mkrtchian

We consider the Shannon-Khinchin axiomatic systems for the characterization of generalized entropies such as Sharma-Mital and Frank-Daffertshofer entropy. We provide the generalization of Shannon-Khinchin axioms and give the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Velimir M. Ilic , Miomir S. Stankovic

We give a categorical treatment, in the spirit of Baez and Fritz, of relative entropy for probability distributions defined on standard Borel spaces. We define a category suitable for reasoning about statistical inference on standard Borel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Nicolas Gagne , Prakash Panangaden

In order to study as a whole a wide part of entropy measures, we introduce a two-parameter non-extensive entropic form with respect to the $h$-derivative, which generalizes the conventional Newton--Leibniz calculus. This new entropy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jin-Wen Kang , Ke-Ming Shen , Ben-Wei Zhang

The von Neumann entropy plays a vital role in quantum information theory. The von Neumann entropy determines, e.g., the capacities of quantum channels. Also, entropies of composite quantum systems are important for future quantum networks,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Christian Majenz

Quantum physics, despite its observables being intrinsically of a probabilistic nature, does not have a quantum entropy assigned to them. We propose a quantum entropy that quantify the randomness of a pure quantum state via a conjugate pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

We comment on a formulation of quantum statistical mechanics, which incorporates the statistical inference of Shannon. Our basic idea is to distinguish the dynamical entropy of von Neumann, $H = -k Tr \hat{\rho}\ln\hat{\rho}$, in terms of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Kazuo Fujikawa

In the past several years, observational entropy has been developed as both a (time-dependent) quantum generalization of Boltzmann entropy, and as a rather general framework to encompass classical and quantum equilibrium and non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Dominik Šafránek , Anthony Aguirre , Joseph Schindler , J. M. Deutsch