Towards Optimal Transport for Quantum Densities

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.202106_011arXiv2101.03256MaRDI QIDQ6357875FDOQ6357875

Authors: Emanuele Caglioti, François Golse, Thierry Paul 

Publication date: 8 January 2021

Abstract: An analogue of the quadratic Wasserstein (or Monge-Kantorovich) distance between Borel probability measures on $mathbf{R}^d$ has been defined in [F. Golse, C. Mouhot, T. Paul: Commun. Math. Phys. 343 (2015), 165-205] for density operators on $L^2(mathbf{R}^d)$, and used to estimate the convergence rate of various asymptotic theories in the context of quantum mechanics. The present work proves a Kantorovich type duality theorem for this quantum variant of the Monge-Kantorovich or Wasserstein distance, and discusses the structure of optimal quantum couplings. Specifically, we prove that optimal quantum couplings involve a gradient type structure similar to the Brenier transport map (which is the gradient of a convex function), or more generally, to the subdifferential of a l.s.c. convex function as in the Knott-Smith optimality criterion (see Theorem 2.12 in [C. Villani: "Topics in Optimal Transportation", Amer. Math. Soc. 2003]).

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) PDEs in connection with control and optimization (35Q93)

Cited In (1)

• Optimal transport on quantum structures. Based on lectures given at the fall semester 2022, Erdős Center, Budapest, Hungary 2022

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