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One of the most important and useful entropic uncertainty relations concerns a $d$ dimensional system and two mutually unbiased measurements. In such a setting, the sum of two information entropies is lower bounded by $\ln d$. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Łukasz Rudnicki , Stephen P. Walborn

The R\'enyi entropy is a mathematical generalization of the concept of entropy and it encodes the total information of a system as a funtion of its order parameter $\alpha$. The meaning of the R\'enyi entropy in physics is not completely…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Nicolò Masi

We introduce a new information-theoretic formulation of quantum measurement uncertainty relations, based on the notion of relative entropy between measurement probabilities. In the case of a finite-dimensional system and for any approximate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

We show that the operational definition of contextuality introduced by Spekkens is, in general, not Lorentz invariant. Specifically, we consider an explicit example with particle states consisting of both spin and momentum, we apply a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Ruben Campos Delgado

In the quantization of gauge theories and quantum gravity, it is crucial to treat reference frames such as rods or clocks not as idealized external classical relata, but as internal quantum subsystems. In the Page-Wootters formalism, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Anne-Catherine de la Hamette , Stefan L. Ludescher , Markus P. Mueller

We consider the generalization of the Araki-Uhlmann formula for relative entropy to Petz-R\'enyi relative entropy. We compute this entropy for a free scalar field in the Minkowski wedge between the vacuum and a coherent state, as well as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Markus B. Fröb , Leonardo Sangaletti

Accurately estimating properties of quantum states, such as entanglement, while essential for the development of quantum technologies, remains a challenging task. Standard approaches to property estimation rely on detailed modeling of the…

It has long been conjectured that the entropy of quantum fields across boundaries scales as the boundary area. This conjecture has not been easy to test in spacetime dimensions greater than four because of divergences in the von Neumann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-29 Samuel L. Braunstein , Saurya Das , S. Shankaranarayanan

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

Employing internal quantum systems as reference frames is a crucial concept in quantum gravity, gauge theories and quantum foundations whenever external relata are unavailable. In this work, we give a comprehensive and self-contained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Philipp A. Hoehn , Marius Krumm , Markus P. Mueller

Due to the absence of an external, classical time variable, the probabilistic predictions of covariant quantum theory are ambiguous when multiple measurements are considered. Here, we introduce an information theoretic framework to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 S. Jay Olson , Jonathan P. Dowling

Entanglement entropy plays a variety of roles in quantum field theory, including the connections between quantum states and gravitation through the holographic principle. This article provides a review of entanglement entropy from a mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Tatsuma Nishioka

It is well known that loss of information about a system, for some observer, leads to an increase in entropy as perceived by this observer. We use this to propose an alternative approach to decoherence in quantum field theory in which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Jurjen F. Koksma , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt

We consider a family of quantum conditional entropies based on the concept of quantum $f$-divergences. First, we explicitly formulate conditions under which the notion of quantum conditional entropy is well defined in this way. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexey E. Rastegin

We present a theoretical study of the relationship between entanglement and entropy in multi-qubit quantum optical systems. Specifically we investigate quantitative relations between the concurrence and linear entropy for a two-qubit mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexandra Olaya-Castro , Neil F. Johnson , Luis Quiroga

In this paper, we explore the concept of pseudo R\'enyi entropy within the context of quantum field theories (QFTs). The transition matrix is constructed by applying operators situated in different regions to the vacuum state. Specifically,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Wu-zhong Guo , Yaozong Jiang

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

We discuss the relevance of quantum reference frames in the description of mixed particle states. We show that the notion of rest frame for mixed particles, which is classically ill-defined, can be introduced in the context of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Antonio Capolupo , Aniello Quaranta

Uncertainty relation usually is one of the most important features in quantum mechanics, and is the backbone of quantum theory, which distinguishes from the rule in classical counterpart. Specifically, entropy-based uncertainty relations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Zhi-Yong Ding , Huan Yang , Dong Wang , Hao Yuan , Jie Yang , Liu Ye

Given the recent interest in perspectival quantum reference frames (QRFs), we ask how quantum properties in the perspectival picture relate to their global, non-perspectival counterparts. It is instructive to establish this link, as most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Everett A. Patterson , Sijia Wang , Robert B. Mann