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We present a comprehensive software framework for the finite-size security analysis of quantum random number generation (QRNG) and quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols, based on the Entropy Accumulation Theorem (EAT). Our framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Piotr Mironowicz , Mohamed Bourennane

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) often rely on generating intermediate reasoning steps to enhance accuracy. However, little work has examined how reasoning utility contributes to the final answer's correctness. Due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xu Guo

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari

Entropy plays a crucial role in both physics and information science, encompassing classical and quantum domains. In this work, we present the Quantum Neural Entropy Estimator (QNEE), a novel approach that combines classical neural network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Sangyun Lee , Hyukjoon Kwon , Jae Sung Lee

Estimating quantum entropies and divergences is an important problem in quantum physics, information theory, and machine learning. Quantum neural estimators (QNEs), which utilize a hybrid classical-quantum architecture, have recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Mark M. Wilde

Most recent state of the art architectures rely on combinations and variations of three approaches: convolutional, recurrent and self-attentive methods. Our work attempts in laying the basis for a new research direction for sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Jia Cheng Hu , Roberto Cavicchioli , Alessandro Capotondi

Entanglement measures such as the entanglement entropy have become an indispensable tool to identify the fundamental character of ground states of interacting quantum many-body systems. For systems of interacting spin or bosonic degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-27 Peter Broecker , Simon Trebst

In this work we consider the time evolution of charged Renyi entanglement entropies after exciting the vacuum with local fermionic operators. In order to explore the information contained in charged Renyi entropies, we perform computations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Pawel Caputa , Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa

Many physical systems considered promising qubit candidates are not, in fact, two-level systems. Such systems can leak out of the preferred computational states, leading to errors on any qubits that interact with leaked qubits. Without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-09 Austin G. Fowler

Security of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols relies solely on quantum physics laws, namely, on the impossibility to distinguish between non-orthogonal quantum states with absolute certainty. Due to this, a potential eavesdropper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Valeria A. Pastushenko , Dmitry A. Kronberg

The measurement range problem, where one cannot determine the data outside the range of the detector, limits the characterization of entanglement in high-dimensional quantum systems when employing, among other tools from information theory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 J. Eli Bourassa , Hoi-Kwong Lo

A variety of new measures of quantum Renyi mutual information and quantum Renyi conditional entropy have recently been proposed, and some of their mathematical properties explored. Here, we show that the Renyi mutual information attains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Masahito Hayashi , Marco Tomamichel

Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) models have achieved encouraging performance on the dialogue response generation task. However, existing Seq2Seq-based response generation methods suffer from a low-diversity problem: they frequently generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Shaojie Jiang , Pengjie Ren , Christof Monz , Maarten de Rijke

We develop a general theory for computing the Renyi entropy with general multiple disjoint intervals from the swapping operations. Our theory is proposed based on the fact that we have observed the resemblance between the replica trick in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-03 Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang

The leakage chain rule for quantum min-entropy quantifies the change of min-entropy when one party gets additional leakage about the information source. Herein we provide an interactive version that quantifies the change of min-entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-26 Ching-Yi Lai , Kai-Min Chung

This paper provides a security proof of the Bennett-Brassard (BB84) quantum key distribution protocol in practical implementation. To prove the security, it is not assumed that defects in the devices are absorbed into an adversary's attack.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yodai Watanabe

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

Counting problems such as determining how many bit strings satisfy a given Boolean logic formula are notoriously hard. In many cases, even getting an approximate count is difficult. Here we propose that entanglement, a common concept in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-03 Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

It is known that given the real sum of two independent uniformly distributed lattice points from the same nested lattice codebook, the eavesdropper can obtain at most 1 bit of information per channel regarding the value of one of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

This report surveys quantum error-correcting codes. As Preskill claimed, 21st century would be the golden age of quantum error correction. Quantum channels behave differently from classical channels, so researchers face difficulties in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hsun-Hsien Chang