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Uncertainty relations provide constraints on how well the outcomes of incompatible measurements can be predicted, and, as well as being fundamental to our understanding of quantum theory, they have practical applications such as for…

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K. He, J. Hou, and M. Li have recently given a sufficient and necessary condition for unitary equivalence of quantum states. This condition is based on the von Neumann entropy. In this note we first give a short proof of their result, and…

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In recent years entanglement measures, such as the von Neumann and the R\'enyi entropies, provided a unique opportunity to access elusive feature of quantum many-body systems. However, extracting entanglement properties analytically,…

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Convex functions of quantum states play a key role in quantum physics, with examples ranging from Bell inequalities to von Neumann entropy. However, in experimental scenarios, direct measurements of these functions are often impractical. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Leonardo Zambrano , Donato Farina , Egle Pagliaro , Marcio M. Taddei , Antonio Acin

Statistical formulations of thermodynamic entropy, such as those by Boltzmann and Gibbs, were originally developed for classical systems and are well understood in that context. However, the foundational aspects of quantum statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Smitarani Mishra , Shaon Sahoo

Entanglement and coherence are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power near future quantum technologies, such as quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum metrology. Yet, their quantification, rather than…

We investigate crossing behavior of ground state entanglement Renyi entropies of quantum critical systems. We find a novel property that the ground state in one quantum phase cannot be locally transferred to that of another phase, that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 Jian Cui , Jun-Peng Cao , Heng Fan

We consider the entanglement entropy in critical one-dimensional quantum systems with open boundary conditions. We show that the second R\'enyi entropy of an interval away from the boundary can be computed exactly, provided the same…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We give an exact formula for the rate of change of the von Neumann entropy for the conditional state of a quantum system undergoing continuous measurement. Here we employ Paycha's Formula \cite{Paycha} which gives the noncommutative Taylor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 John E. Gough , Nina H. Amini

Entanglement of pure states of bipartite quantum systems has been shown to have a unique measure in terms of the von Neumann entropy of the reduced states of either of its subsystems. The measure is established under entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garry Bowen , Nilanjana Datta

In the context of control and estimation under information constraints, restoration entropy measures the minimal required data rate above which the state of a system can be estimated so that the estimation quality does not degrade over time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-22 C. Kawan , A. Matveev , A. Pogromsky

Thevon Neumann entropy, named after John von Neumann, is an extension of the classical concept of entropy to the field of quantum mechanics. From a numerical perspective, von Neumann entropy can be computed simply by computing all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou , Gregory-Paul Dexter , Wojciech Szpankowski , Ananth Grama , Petros Drineas

A fundamental task in quantum information science is to measure nonlinear functionals of quantum states, such as $\mathrm{Tr}(\rho^k O)$. Intuitively, one expects that computing a $k$-th order quantity generally requires $O(k)$ copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan

Several quantities of interest in quantum information, including entanglement and purity, are nonlinear functions of the density matrix and cannot, even in principle, correspond to proper quantum observables. Any method aimed to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-25 Matteo G. A. Paris

In this work, we study the Renyi-alpha entropies S_{alpha}(\hat{rho}) = (1 - alpha)^{-1} \ln{Tr(\hat{rho}^{alpha})} of quantum states for N bosons in the phase-space representation. With the help of the Bopp rule, we derive the entropies of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-09 Ilki Kim

The entropy of an electronic system offers important insights into the nature of its quantum mechanical ground state. This is particularly valuable in cases where the state is difficult to identify by conventional experimental probes, such…

We investigate the question of whether the entropy and the Renyi entropies of the vacuum state reduced to a region of the space can be represented in terms of correlators in quantum field theory. In this case, the positivity relations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Casini

We consider performing phase estimation under the following conditions: we are given only one copy of the input state, the input state does not have to be an eigenstate of the unitary, and the state must not be measured. Most quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Patrick Rall

Quantum coherence characterizes the non-classical feature of a single party system with respect to a local basis. Based on a recently introduced resource framework, coherence can be regarded as a resource and be systematically manipulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Yunchao Liu , Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan

Quantum information measures such as the entropy and the mutual information find applications in physics, e.g., as correlation measures. Generalizing such measures based on the R\'enyi entropies is expected to enhance their scope in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Mario Berta , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Mark M. Wilde