Quantum and Classical Information Theory with Disentropy (1901.04331v3)

Abstract: Entropy is a famous and well established concept in physics and engineering that can be used for explanation of basic fundamentals as well it finds applications in several areas, from quantum physics to astronomy, from network communication to medical image processing, for example. Now, entropy meets its dual, the disentropy. As such, the disentropy can be used everywhere entropy is used, offering a different point of view: since entropy is a measure of disorder or uncertainty, disentropy is a measure of order or certainty. Thus, important concepts of physics can be rewritten using disentropy instead of entropy. Although there is a large range of problems that can be solved using entropy or disentropy, there are situations where only the disentropy can be used. This happens because the disentropy can provide a real output value when its argument is negative, while the entropy cannot. Thus, it is possible to calculate, for example, the disentropy of quasi-probability distributions like the Wigner function of highly quantum states. In this direction, the present work shows applications of the disentropy in a small list of problems: quantum and classical information theory, black hole thermodynamics, image processing and number theory.