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The quantum relative entropy is a measure of the distinguishability of two quantum states, and it is a unifying concept in quantum information theory: many information measures such as entropy, conditional entropy, mutual information, and…

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Entanglement entropy in even dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contains well-known universal terms arising from the conformal anomaly. Renyi entropies are natural generalizations of the entanglement entropy that are much less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-25 Jeongseog Lee , Lauren McGough , Benjamin R. Safdi

We show the entanglement entropy in certain quantum field theories to contain state-dependent divergences. Both perturbative and holographic examples are exhibited. However, quantities such as the relative entropy and the generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Donald Marolf , Aron C. Wall

Minimization problems with respect to a one-parameter family of generalized relative entropies are studied. These relative entropies, which we term relative $\alpha$-entropies (denoted $\mathscr{I}_{\alpha}$), arise as redundancies under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 M. Ashok Kumar , Rajesh Sundaresan

We introduce quantum weighted entropy in analogy to an earlier notion of (classical) weighted entropy and derive many of its properties. These include the subadditivity, concavity and strong subadditivity property of quantum weighted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 Y. Suhov , S. Zohren

Given two density matrices $\rho$ and $\sigma$, there are a number of different expressions that reduce to the $\alpha$-R\'enyi relative entropy of $\rho$ with respect to $\sigma$ in the classical case; i.e., when $\rho$ and $\sigma$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Eric A. Carlen , Rupert L. Frank , Elliott H. Lieb

We introduce a new quantum R\'enyi divergence $D^{\#}_{\alpha}$ for $\alpha \in (1,\infty)$ defined in terms of a convex optimization program. This divergence has several desirable computational and operational properties such as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

We define a new divergence of von Neumann algebras using a variational expression that is similar in nature to Kosaki's formula for the relative entropy. Our divergence satisfies the usual desirable properties, upper bounds the sandwiched…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Stefan Hollands

Quantum generalizations of Renyi's entropies are a useful tool to describe a variety of operational tasks in quantum information processing. Two families of such generalizations turn out to be particularly useful: the Petz quantum Renyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Raban Iten , Joseph M. Renes , David Sutter

Motivated by the geometrical structures of quantum mechanics, we introduce an almost-complex structure $J$ on the product $M\times M$ of any parallelizable statistical manifold $M$. Then, we use $J$ to extract a pre-symplectic form and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Florio M. Ciaglia , Fabio Di Cosmo , Armando Figueroa , Giuseppe Marmo , Luca Schiavone

Defining suitable quantum extensions of classical divergences often poses a challenge due to the non-commutative nature of quantum information. In this work, we propose a new approach via what we call the layer cake representation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Po-Chieh Liu , Christoph Hirche , Hao-Chung Cheng

A Bayesian functorial characterization of the classical relative entropy (KL divergence) of finite probabilities was recently obtained by Baez and Fritz. This was then generalized to standard Borel spaces by Gagn\'e and Panangaden. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Arthur J. Parzygnat

Consistency between quantum mechanical and general relativistic views of the world is a longstanding problem, which becomes particularly prominent in black hole physics. We develop a coherent picture addressing this issue by studying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-06 Yasunori Nomura , Fabio Sanches , Sean J. Weinberg

We derive several new results for Renyi entropy, $S_n$, across generic entangling surfaces. We establish a perturbative expansion of the Renyi entropy, valid in generic quantum field theories, in deformations of a given density matrix. When…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Aitor Lewkowycz , Eric Perlmutter

Quantum physics, despite its observables being intrinsically of a probabilistic nature, does not have a quantum entropy assigned to them. We propose a quantum entropy that quantify the randomness of a pure quantum state via a conjugate pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

Entanglement R\'enyi-$\alpha$ entropy is an entanglement measure. It generalizes the entanglement of formation, and they coincide when $\alpha$ tends to 1. We derive analytical lower and upper bounds for the entanglement R\'enyi-$\alpha$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Wei Song , Lin Chen , Zhuo-Liang Cao

The entanglement entropy in a quantum field theory between two regions of space has been shown in simple cases to be proportional to the volume of the hypersurface separating the regions. We prove that this is true for a free scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Micheal S. Berger , Roman V. Buniy

Entanglement entropies calculated in the framework of quantum field theory on classical, flat or curved, spacetimes are known to show an intriguing area law in four dimensions, but they are also notorious for their quadratic ultraviolet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Carlo Pagani , Martin Reuter

Quantum operators of coordinates and momentum components of a particle in Minkowski space-time belong to a noncommutative algebra and give rise to a quantum phase space. Under some constraints, in particular, the Lorentz invariance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-20 V. V. Khruschov

The geometric operators of area, volume, and length, depend on a fundamental length l of quantum geometry which is a priori arbitrary rather than equal to the Planck length l_P. The fundamental length l and the Immirzi parameter $\gamma$…

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