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For noncomposite systems in classical and quantum domains, we obtain new inequalities such as the subadditivity and strong subadditivity conditions for Shannon entropies and information determined by the probability distributions and for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Margarita A Man'ko , Vladimir I Man'ko

The primary entropic measures for quantum states are additive under the tensor product. In the analysis of quantum information processing tasks, the minimum entropy of a set of states, e.g., the minimum output entropy of a channel, often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Omar Fawzi , Jan Kochanowski , Cambyse Rouzé , Thomas Van Himbeeck

There is a vast body of recent literature on the reliability of communication through noisy channels, the recovery of community structures in the stochastic block model, the limiting behavior of the free entropy in spin glasses and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

This thesis consolidates, improves and extends the smooth entropy framework for non-asymptotic information theory and cryptography. We investigate the conditional min- and max-entropy for quantum states, generalizations of classical R\'enyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Marco Tomamichel

The Renyi entropies constitute a family of information measures that generalizes the well-known Shannon entropy, inheriting many of its properties. They appear in the form of unconditional and conditional entropies, relative entropies or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Martin Müller-Lennert , Frédéric Dupuis , Oleg Szehr , Serge Fehr , Marco Tomamichel

Logical information theory is the quantitative version of the logic of partitions just as logical probability theory is the quantitative version of the dual Boolean logic of subsets. The resulting notion of information is about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 David Ellerman

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

I study the mutual information between spatial subsystems in a variety of scale invariant quantum field theories. While it is derived from the bare entanglement entropy, the mutual information offers a more refined probe of the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-21 Brian Swingle

Entropic uncertainty relations provide an information-theoretic framework for quantifying the fundamental indeterminacy inherent in quantum mechanics. We propose more stringent quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Qing-Hua Zhang , Cong Xu , Jing-Feng Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

The study of mutual entropy (information) and capacity in classica l system was extensively done after Shannon by several authors like Kolmogor ov and Gelfand. In quantum systems, there have been several definitions of t he mutual entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Ohya

Mutual information is commonly used as a measure of similarity between competing labelings of a given set of objects, for example to quantify performance in classification and community detection tasks. As argued recently, however, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Maximilian Jerdee , Alec Kirkley , M. E. J. Newman

Exponential models of distributions are widely used in machine learning for classiffication and modelling. It is well known that they can be interpreted as maximum entropy models under empirical expectation constraints. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Amir Globerson , Naftali Tishby

While the quantum mutual information is a fundamental measure of quantum information, it is only defined for spacelike-separated quantum systems. Such a limitation is not present in the theory of classical information, where the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 James Fullwood , Zhen Wu , Arthur J. Parzygnat , Vlatko Vedral

Our capacity to process information depends on the computational power at our disposal. Information theory captures our ability to distinguish states or communicate messages when it is unconstrained with unrivaled beauty and elegance. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Asad Raza , Jacopo Rizzo , Lorenzo Leone , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert

Information theoretic measures (entropies, entropy rates, mutual information) are nowadays commonly used in statistical signal processing for real-world data analysis. The present work proposes the use of Auto Mutual Information (Mutual…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-24 C Granero-Belinchón , S. Roux , P. Abry , N. Garnier

We derive a tight lower bound on equivocation (conditional entropy), or equivalently a tight upper bound on mutual information between a signal variable and channel outputs. The bound is in terms of the joint distribution of the signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Michal Hledík , Thomas R. Sokolowski , Gašper Tkačik

An analysis of quantum measurement is presented that relies on an information-theoretic description of quantum entanglement. In a consistent quantum information theory of entanglement, entropies (uncertainties) conditional on measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 N. J. Cerf , C. Adami

We consider a quantum state shared between many distant locations, and define a quantum information processing primitive, state merging, that optimally merges the state into one location. As announced in [Horodecki, Oppenheim, Winter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-12 Michal Horodecki , Jonathan Oppenheim , Andreas Winter

Capacities of quantum channels are fundamental quantities in the theory of quantum information. A desirable property is the additivity for a capacity. However, this cannot be achieved for a few quantities that have been established as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 D. -S. Wang

In this paper, we study measures of quantum non-Markovianity based on the conditional mutual information. We obtain such measures by considering multiple parts of the total environment such that the conditional mutual information can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Zhiqiang Huang , Xiao-Kan Guo