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Relative Entropy and Mutual Information on a Quantum Logic

Mona Khare, Bhawna Malhotra Singh, Anurag Shukla

Published Jan 1, 2013• 1 citation
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Abstract

The present paper deals with the study of relative entropy, mutual information and their properties in a quantum space (L, s), where L is an orthomodular lattice and s is a Bayesian state on it.

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In the logico-algebraic foundation of quantum mechanics one often deals with the orthomodular lattices (OML) which enjoy state-separating properties of noncompatible pairs (see e.g. [18], [9] and [15]). These properties usually guarantee reasonable “richness” of the state space—an assumption needed in developing the theory of quantum logics. In this note we consider these classes of OMLs from the universal algebra standpoint, showing, as the main result, that these classes form quasivarieties. We also illustrate by examples that these classes may (and need not) be varieties. The results supplement the research carried on in [1], [3], [4], [5], [6], [11], [12], [13] and [16].
Abstract Relative entropy is a powerful measure of the dissimilarity between two statistical field theories in the continuum. In this work, we study the relative entropy between Gaussian scalar field theories in a finite volume with different masses and boundary conditions. We show that the relative entropy depends crucially on d , the dimension of Euclidean space. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the mutual information between two disjoint regions in Rd\mathbb {R}^dRd R d is finite if the two regions are separated by a finite distance and satisfies an area law. We then construct an example of “touching” regions between which the mutual information is infinite. We argue that the properties of mutual information in scalar field theories can be explained by the Markov property of these theories.