Aspects of geodesical motion with Fisher-Rao metric: classical and quantum

DOI10.1142/S1230161218500051zbMATH Open1391.81042arXiv1608.06105WikidataQ130006954 ScholiaQ130006954MaRDI QIDQ4568322FDOQ4568322

Authors: Florio M. Ciaglia, Domenico Felice, Stefano Mancini, J. M. Pérez-Pardo, Fabio Di Cosmo, Giuseppe Marmo 

Publication date: 19 June 2018

Published in: Open Systems & Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to exploit the geometric structure of Quantum Mechanics and of statistical manifolds to study the qualitative effect that the quantum properties have in the statistical description of a system. We show that the end points of geodesics in the classical setting coincide with the probability distributions that minimise Shannon's Entropy, i.e. with distributions of zero dispersion. In the quantum setting this happens only for particular initial conditions, which in turn correspond to classical submanifolds. This result can be interpreted as a geometric manifestation of the uncertainty principle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06105

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsinformation geometrystatistical models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Integral geometry (53C65) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

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• Stratified manifold of quantum states, actions of the complex special linear group
• Geometrical statistics -- classical and quantum
• Contact geometry and thermodynamics

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