Quantum optimal transport is cheaper

DOI10.1007/S10955-020-02571-7MaRDI QIDQ2202299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Golse, Emanuele Caglioti, Thierry Paul

Publication date 18 September 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01829

zbMATH Keywords

Monge-Kantorovich distanceprobability measuresquantum optimal transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs of infinite order (35R50) Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We compare bipartite (Euclidean) matching problems in classical and quantum mechanics. The quantum case is treated in terms of a quantum version of the Wasserstein distance introduced in [F. Golse, C. Mouhot, T. Paul, Commun. Math. Phys. 343 (2016), 165-205]. We show that the optimal quantum cost can be cheaper than the classical one. We treat in detail the case of two particles: the equal mass case leads to equal quantum and classical costs. Moreover, we show examples with different masses for which the quantum cost is strictly cheaper than the classical cost.

Review text

The authors consider the classical optimal transport (COT), the Wasserstein distance between two probability Borel measures. Then, they compare COT with the quantum optimal transportation (QOT) which is not a distance. Precisely, the authors state that QOT is strictly less than COT whenever a few meaningful conditions are complied. The article is endowed with concrete examples.

Recommendations

• On quantum optimal transport
• Foundation of quantum optimal transport and applications
• Quantum optimal transport with quantum channels
• Optimal transport pseudometrics for quantum and classical densities
• On quantum versions of the classical Wasserstein distance

Cites work

• An analog of the 2-Wasserstein metric in non-commutative probability under which the fermionic Fokker-Planck equation is gradient flow for the entropy
• Coarse-scale representations and smoothed Wigner transforms
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1909499 (Why is no real title available?)
• Non-commutative calculus, optimal transport and functional inequalities in dissipative quantum systems
• On the mean field and classical limits of quantum mechanics
• Optimal Transport
• Relating relative entropy, optimal transport and Fisher information: a quantum HWI inequality
• Remarks on the Monge-Kantorovich problem in the discrete setting
• The conditional entropy power inequality for bosonic quantum systems
• The Euclidean Matching Problem
• The Monge distance between quantum states
• The Schrödinger equation in the mean-field and semiclassical regime
• Wave packets and the quadratic Monge-Kantorovich distance in quantum mechanics

Cited in

(20)

• Semiclassical evolution with low regularity
• Optimal transport pseudometrics for quantum and classical densities
• Optimal transport with some directed distances
• Applications of optimal transportation in the natural sciences. Abstracts from the workshop held February 21--27, 2021 (online meeting)
• Quantum optimal transport with quantum channels
• Foundation of quantum optimal transport and applications
• Quantum Wasserstein isometries on the qubit state space
• Quantum entropic regularization of matrix-valued optimal transport
• Monotonicity of a quantum 2-Wasserstein distance
• A non-commutative entropic optimal transport approach to quantum composite systems at positive temperature
• The Wasserstein distance of order 1 for quantum spin systems on infinite lattices
• On quantum optimal transport
• Derivation of Euler's equations of perfect fluids from von Neumann's equation with magnetic field
• Towards Optimal Transport for Quantum Densities
• Optimal transport on quantum structures. Based on lectures given at the fall semester 2022, Erdős Center, Budapest, Hungary 2022
• Classical shadows meet quantum optimal mass transport
• A new class of distances on complex projective spaces
• Isometries of the qubit state space with respect to quantum Wasserstein distances
• Quantum optimal transport: an invitation
• Geometry of Grassmannians and optimal transport of quantum states

This page was built for publication: Quantum optimal transport is cheaper

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2202299)