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Correlation functions and entanglement are two different aspects to characterize quantum many-body states. While many correlation functions are experimentally accessible, entanglement entropy (EE), the simplest characterization of quantum…

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Symmetry breaking plays a central role in classifying the phases of quantum many-body systems. Recent developments have highlighted a novel symmetry-breaking pattern, in which the strong symmetry of a density matrix spontaneously breaks to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ning Sun , Pengfei Zhang , Lei Feng

By using the Choi-Jamio{\l}kowski isomorphism, we propose a well-defined coherence measure of quantum channels based on the generalized $\alpha$-$z$-relative R\'{e}nyi entropy. In addition, we present an alternative coherence measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Jiaorui Fan , Zhaoqi Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

In this work, we investigate the reliability of information-theoretic measures based on the electron-density and shape-function, specifically Shannon and R\'enyi entropies, as descriptors of electronic correlation. By establishing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Diogo J. L. Rodrigues , Evelio Francisco , Ángel Martín Pendás

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

The Loschmidt echo is a popular quantity that allows making predictions about the stability of quantum states under time evolution. In our work, we present an approach that allows us to find a differential equation that can be used to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-08 Michael Vogl

We introduce quantum correlations measures based on the minimal change in unified entropies induced by local rank-one projective measurements, divided by a factor that depends on the generalized purity of the system in the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 G. M. Bosyk , G. Bellomo , S. Zozor , M. Portesi , P. W. Lamberti

I show how to perform a Loschmidt echo (time reversal) in the Bose-Hubbard model implemented with cold bosonic atoms in an optical lattice. The echo is obtained by applying a linear phase imprint on the lattice and a change in magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 Fernando M. Cucchietti

Concepts of information theory are increasingly used to characterize collective phenomena in condensed matter systems, such as the use of entanglement entropies to identify emergent topological order in interacting quantum many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-28 Johannes Helmes , Jean-Marie Stéphan , Simon Trebst

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

We estimate the canonical entropy of a quantum black hole by counting its quasi-normal modes. We first show that the partition function of a classical black hole, evaluated by counting the quasi-normal modes with a thermodyanmic Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Naritaka Oshita , Niayesh Afshordi

We introduce a biparametric Fisher-R\'enyi complexity measure for general probability distributions and we discuss its properties. This notion, which is composed of two entropy-like components (the R\'enyi entropy and the biparametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 D. Puertas-Centeno , I. V. Toranzo , J. S. Dehesa

Loschmidt echo (LE) is a measure of reversibility and sensitivity to perturbations of quantum evolutions. For weak perturbations its decay rate is given by the width of the local density of states (LDOS). When the perturbation is strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Natalia Ares , Diego A. Wisniacki

The interplay of quantum and classical fluctuations in the vicinity of a quantum critical point (QCP) gives rise to various regimes or phases with distinct quantum character. In this work, we show that the R\'enyi entropy is a precious tool…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier

A central challenge in analog quantum simulation is to characterize desirable physical properties of quantum states produced in experiments. However, in conventional approaches, the extraction of arbitrary information requires performing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Minh C. Tran , Daniel K. Mark , Wen Wei Ho , Soonwon Choi

We present a general method for calculating R\'enyi entropies in the ground state of a one-dimensional critical system with mixed open boundaries, for an interval starting at one of its ends. In the conformal field theory framework, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We introduce a variant of the R\'enyi entropy definition that aligns it with the well-known H\"older mean: in the new formulation, the r-th order R\'enyi Entropy is the logarithm of the inverse of the r-th order H\"older mean. This brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Francisco José Valverde-Albacete , Carmen Peláez-Moreno

We introduce entanglement purification protocols for d-level systems (qudits) with improved efficiency as compared to previous protocols. While we focus on protocols for bipartite systems, we also propose generalizations to multi-partite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Jorge Miguel-Ramiro , Wolfgang Dür

The equilibration dynamics of a closed quantum system is encoded in the long-time distribution function of generic observables. In this paper we consider the Loschmidt echo generalized to finite temperature, and show that we can obtain an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , N. Tobias Jacobson , Siddhartha Santra , Paolo Zanardi

We extend classical coarse-grained entropy, commonly used in many branches of physics, to the quantum realm. We find two coarse-grainings, one using measurements of local particle numbers and then total energy, and the second using local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Dominik Šafránek , J. M. Deutsch , Anthony Aguirre