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The efficient simulation of correlated quantum systems is the most promising near-term application of quantum computers. Here, we present a measurement of the second Renyi entropy of the ground state of the two-site Fermi-Hubbard model on a…

The rates of quantum cryptographic protocols are usually expressed in terms of a conditional entropy minimized over a certain set of quantum states. In particular, in the device-independent setting, the minimization is over all the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Peter Brown , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

We obtain formulas for Petz-R\'enyi and Umegaki relative entropy from the idea of distribution of a positive selfadjoint operator. Classical results on R\'enyi and Kullback-Leibler divergences are applied to obtain new results and new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 George Androulakis , Tiju Cherian John

The development of quantum computation has resulted in many quantum algorithms for a wide array of tasks. Recently, there is a growing interest in using quantum computing techniques to estimate or compute quantum information-theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Trung Hoa Dinh , Nhat A. Nghiem

Near-term quantum computations are limited by high error rates, the scarcity of qubits and low qubit connectivity. Increasing support for mid-circuit measurements and qubit reset in near-term quantum computers enables qubit reuse that may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Sebastian Brandhofer , Ilia Polian , Kevin Krsulich

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has recently led to general measurement uncertainty relations for quantum systems: incompatible observables can be measured jointly or in sequence only with some unavoidable approximation, which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

A critical question for the field of quantum computing in the near future is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of state-of-the-art classical computers,…

The minimum Kullback entropy principle (mKE) is a useful tool to estimate quantum states and operations from incomplete data and prior information. In general, the solution of a mKE problem is analytically challenging and an approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Carlo Sparaciari , Stefano Olivares , Francesco Ticozzi , Matteo G. A. Paris

We provide a versatile upper bound on the number of maximally entangled qubits, or private bits, shared by two parties via a generic adaptive communication protocol over a quantum network when the use of classical communication is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Luca Rigovacca , Go Kato , Stefan Bäuml , M. S. Kim , W. J. Munro , Koji Azuma

The study of quantum correlations in High-dimensional bipartite systems is crucial for the development of quantum computing. We propose relative entropy as a distance measure of correlations may be measured by means of the distance from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 M. Mahdian , M. B. Arjmandi

We introduce the notion of relative volume entropy for two spacetimes with preferred compact spacelike foliations. This is accomplished by applying the notion of Kullback-Leibler divergence to the volume elements induced on spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Nikolas Akerblom , Gunther Cornelissen

In this work, we study two different approaches to defining the entropy of a quantum channel. One of these is based on the von Neumann entropy of the corresponding Choi-Jamio{\l}kowski state. The second one is based on the relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Dariusz Kurzyk , Łukasz Pawela , Zbigniew Puchała

The von Neumann entropy of a quantum state is a central concept in physics and information theory, having a number of compelling physical interpretations. There is a certain perspective that the most fundamental notion in quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Gilad Gour , Mark M. Wilde

This work presents an upper-bound to value that the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence can reach for a class of probability distributions called quantum distributions (QD). The aim is to find a distribution $U$ which maximizes the KL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Vincenzo Bonnici

Any physical system can be viewed from the perspective that information is implicitly represented in its state. However, the quantification of this information when it comes to complex networks has remained largely elusive. In this work, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-23 Manlio De Domenico , Jacob Biamonte

Relative entropy serves as a cornerstone concept in quantum information theory. In this work, we study relative entropy of random states from major generic state models of Hilbert-Schmidt and Bures-Hall ensembles. In particular, we derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lu Wei

Information theory has become an increasingly important research field to better understand quantum mechanics. Noteworthy, it covers both foundational and applied perspectives, also offering a common technical language to study a variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Diego Paiva Pires , Kavan Modi , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

Recently, an interesting quantity called the quantum Renyi divergence (or "sandwiched" Renyi relative entropy) was defined for pairs of positive semi-definite operators $\rho$ and $\sigma$. It depends on a parameter $\alpha$ and acts as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Nilanjana Datta , Felix Leditzky

We introduce a single-number metric, quantum volume, that can be measured using a concrete protocol on near-term quantum computers of modest size ($n\lesssim 50$), and measure it on several state-of-the-art transmon devices, finding values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Andrew W. Cross , Lev S. Bishop , Sarah Sheldon , Paul D. Nation , Jay M. Gambetta

We introduce ways to measure information storage in quantum systems, using a recently introduced computation-theoretic model that accounts for measurement effects. The first, the quantum excess entropy, quantifies the shared information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 James P. Crutchfield , Karoline Wiesner