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In local quantum field theory, the entanglement entropy of a region is divergent due to the arbitrary short-wavelength correlations near the boundary of the region. Quantum gravitational fluctuations are expected to cut off the entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Usman Naseer

Entropies are fundamental measures of uncertainty with central importance in information theory and statistics and applications across all the quantitative sciences. Under a natural set of operational axioms, the most general form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roberto Rubboli , Erkka Haapasalo , Marco Tomamichel

Entanglement is the key feature of many-body quantum systems, and the development of new tools to probe it in the laboratory is an outstanding challenge. Measuring the entropy of different partitions of a quantum system provides a way to…

We calculate analytically the R\'enyi bipartite entanglement entropy $S_{\alpha}$ of the ground state of $1+1$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) after performing a projective measurement in a part of the system. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 M. A. Rajabpour

A quantum model can be mapped to a classical model in one higher dimension. Here we introduce a finite-temperature correlation measure based on a reduced density matrix rho_A obtained by cutting the classical system along the imaginary time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 J. Sirker

We present simple and computationally efficient nonparametric estimators of R\'enyi entropy and mutual information based on an i.i.d. sample drawn from an unknown, absolutely continuous distribution over $\R^d$. The estimators are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-10-27 Dávid Pál , Barnabás Póczos , Csaba Szepesvári

We develop a thermodynamic characterization of multimode entanglement in pure continuous-variable systems by quantifying the gap between globally and locally extractable work (ergotropy). For arbitrary pure multimode Gaussian states, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Mrinmoy Samanta , Sudipta Mondal , Ayan Patra , Saptarshi Roy , Aditi Sen De

We study the one-particle von Neumann entropy of a system of N hard-core anyons on a ring. The entropy is found to have a clear dependence on the anyonic parameter which characterizes the generalized fractional statistics described by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Raoul Santachiara , Franck Stauffer , Daniel Cabra

We develop a quantum Monte Carlo procedure, in the valence bond basis, to measure the Renyi entanglement entropy of a many-body ground state as the expectation value of a unitary {\it Swap} operator acting on two copies of the system. An…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-18 Matthew B. Hastings , Ivan Gonzalez , Ann B. Kallin , Roger G. Melko

We introduce and study generalized R\'enyi entropies defined through the traces of products of ${\rm Tr}_B (|\Psi_i\rangle\langle \Psi_j|)$ where $|\Psi_i\rangle$ are eigenstates of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). When…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese , Robert M. Konik

Continuous-variable quantum thermodynamics in the Gaussian regime provides a promising framework for investigating the energetic role of quantum correlations, particularly in optical systems. In this work, we introduce an entropy-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Beatriz Polo-Rodríguez , Federico Centrone , Gerardo Adesso , Mir Alimuddin

We develop a simple framework for implementing a type of path integral "surgery" via correlated averaging over codimension-one defects/extended operators. This technique is used to construct replica manifolds by effectively cutting and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Mohamed Hany Radwan

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

Gaussian Boson Sampling is a popular method for experimental demonstrations of quantum advantage, but many subtleties remain in fully understanding its theoretical underpinnings. An important component in the theoretical arguments for…

We show that odd order R\'enyi entropies $S^{(2q+1)}$ of a system of interacting scalar fields can be calculated as the free energy of $2q+1$ replicas of the system with additional quadratic inter-replica couplings in the subsystem at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-20 Mrinal Kanti Sarkar , Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma

The R\'{e}nyi and von Neumann entropies of the thermal state in the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP)-corrected single harmonic oscillator system are explicitly computed within the first order of the GUP parameter $\alpha$. While the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 MuSeong Kim , Mi-Ra Hwang , Eylee Jung , DaeKil Park

We consider two measures of entanglement, the logarithmic negativity and the entanglement entropy, between regions of space in excited states of many-body systems formed by a finite number of particle excitations. In parts I and II of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Cecilia De Fazio , Benjamin Doyon , István M. Szécsényi

We study the entanglement dynamics in a generic quantum automaton circuit subjected to projective measurements. We design an efficient algorithm which not only allows us to perform large scale simulation for the R\'enyi entropy but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Jason Iaconis , Andrew Lucas , Xiao Chen

Observational entropy provides a general notion of quantum entropy that appropriately interpolates between Boltzmann's and Gibbs' entropies, and has recently been argued to provide a useful measure of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Francesco Buscemi , Joseph Schindler , Dominik Šafránek

A general method for the study of the entanglement evolution of graph states under the action of Pauli was recently proposed in [Cavalcanti, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030502 (2009)]. This method is based on lower and upper bounds on the…

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