The Monge distance between quantum states

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/45/009zbMATH Open0954.81042arXivquant-ph/9711011OpenAlexW2092066661WikidataQ112267509 ScholiaQ112267509MaRDI QIDQ3836098FDOQ3836098

Authors: Karol Życzkowski, Wojciech Słomczyński 

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define a metric in the space of quantum states taking the Monge distance between corresponding Husimi distributions (Q--functions). This quantity fulfills the axioms of a metric and satisfies the following semiclassical property: the distance between two coherent states is equal to the Euclidean distance between corresponding points in the classical phase space. We compute analytically distances between certain states (coherent, squeezed, Fock and thermal) and discuss a scheme for numerical computation of Monge distance for two arbitrary quantum states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9711011

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coherent states (81R30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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