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Various alternative expressions stemming from its definition emphasizing computational and algorithmic aspects are worked out: First, for the case of canonical Gibbs states, it is shown that \u03ba-entropy is cast in the form of an expectation value for an observable that is determined. Also, an operational method named \u201cthe two-temperatures protocol\u201d is introduced that provides a way to obtain the \u03ba-entropy in terms of the partition functions of two auxiliary Gibbs states with temperatures \u03ba-shifted above, the hot-system, and \u03ba-shifted below, the cold-system, with respect to the original system temperature. That protocol provides physical procedures for evaluating entropy for any \u03ba. Second, two novel additional ways of expressing the \u03ba-entropy are further introduced. One determined by a non-negativity definite quantum channel, with Kraus-like operator sum representation and its extension to a unitary dilation via a qubit ancilla. Another given as a simulation of the \u03ba-entropy via the quantum circuit of a generalized version of the Hadamard test. Third, a simple inter-relation of the von Neumann entropy and the quantum \u03ba-entropy is worked out and a bound of their difference is evaluated and interpreted. Also the effect on the \u03ba-entropy of quantum noise, implemented as a random unitary quantum channel acting in the system\u2019s density matrix, is addressed and a bound on the entropy, depending on the spectral properties of the noisy channel and the system\u2019s density matrix, is evaluated. 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