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Hierarchical tree structures are common in many real-world systems, from tree roots and branches to neuronal dendrites and biologically inspired artificial neural networks, as well as in technological networks for organizing and searching…

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We study the effectiveness of two distinct machine learning techniques, neural networks and random forests, in the quantification of entanglement from two-qubit tomography data. Although we predictably find that neural networks yield better…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Pavel Baláž , Mateusz Krawczyk , Jarosław Pawłowski , Katarzyna Roszak

In this paper I propose a branch point twist field approach to computing a temporal entropy, that is, an entanglement measure across different time regions, as opposed to the usual spacial measures. I discuss how the shift to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo

This article presents the basis of a theory of entanglement. We begin with a classical theory of entangled discrete measures in Section~1. Section~2 treats quantum mechanics and discusses the statistics of bounded operators on a Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Stanley Gudder

Entropy and information provide natural measures of correlation among elements in a network. We construct here the information theoretic analog of connected correlation functions: irreducible $N$--point correlation is measured by a decrease…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Elad Schneidman , Susanne Still , Michael J. Berry , William Bialek

We present here a new and universal approach for the study of random and/or trees, unifying in one framework many different models, including some novel ones not yet understood in the literature. An and/or tree is a Boolean expression…

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Anyonic systems are modeled by topologically protected Hilbert spaces which obey complex superselection rules restricting possible operations. These Hilbert spaces cannot be decomposed into tensor products of spatially localized subsystems,…

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The code base of software projects evolves essentially through inserting and removing information to and from the source code. We can measure this evolution via the elements of information - tokens, words, nodes - of the respective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Adriano Torres , Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

The Shannon entropy, one of the cornerstones of information theory, is widely used in physics, particularly in statistical mechanics. Yet its characterization and connection to physics remain vague, leaving ample room for misconceptions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Gabriele Carcassi , Christine A. Aidala , Julian Barbour

We consider a model for a Planck scale ultraviolet cutoff which is based on Shannon sampling. Shannon sampling originated in information theory, where it expresses the equivalence of continuous and discrete representations of information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Jason Pye , William Donnelly , Achim Kempf

The information-theoretic representation of quantum systems, which complements the familiar energy description of the density-functional and wave-function-based theories, is here discussed. According to it, the internal disorder of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 J. S. Dehesa , D. Manzano , P. S. Sánchez-Moreno , R. J. Yáñez

We obtain a mathematically simple characterization of all functionals coinciding with the von Neumann reduced entropy on pure states based on the Khinchin-Faddeev axiomatization of Shannon entropy and give a physical interpretation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Oliver Rudolph

The information content of a source is defined in terms of the minimum number of bits needed to store the output of the source in a perfectly recoverable way. A similar definition can be given in the case of quantum sources, with qubits…

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We introduce a hierarchical classification of theories that describe systems with fundamentally limited information content. This property is introduced in an operational way and gives rise to the existence of mutually complementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Tomasz Paterek , Borivoje Dakic , Caslav Brukner

In the problem of entanglement there exist two different notions. One is the entanglement of a quantum state, characterizing the state structure. The other is entanglement production by quantum operators, describing the action of operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova , V. A. Yurovsky

A natural measure for the amount of quantum information that a physical system E holds about another system A = A_1,...,A_n is given by the min-entropy Hmin(A|E). Specifically, the min-entropy measures the amount of entanglement between E…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Frédéric Dupuis , Omar Fawzi , Stephanie Wehner

Understanding the distribution of quantum entanglement over many parties is a fundamental challenge of quantum physics and is of practical relevance for several applications in the field of quantum information. Here we use methods from…

We present a new technique to reduce the expected number of measurements to declare an unknown quantum state as entangled. Our method is based on the geometric criterion and so requires only local Pauli measurements. Using concentration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Bingjie Wang , Stephen Brierley

Information-theoretic measures such as relative entropy and correlation are extremely useful when modeling or analyzing the interaction of probabilistic systems. We survey the quantum generalization of 5 such measures and point out some of…

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