Mixed-State Berry Curvature in quantum multiparameter estimations
Quantum Physics
2025-11-21 v1
Abstract
For pure states, the quantum Berry curvature was well studied. However, the quantum curvature for mixed states has received less attention. From the concept of symmetric logarithmic derivative, we introduce a mixed-state quantum curvature and find that it plays a key role in the field of multi-parameter precision estimations. Through spectral decomposition, we derive the mixed-state Berry curvature for both the full-rank and non-full-rank density matrices. As an example, we obtain the exact expression of the Berry curvature for an arbitrary qubit state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.16215,
title = {Mixed-State Berry Curvature in quantum multiparameter estimations},
author = {Xiaoguang Wang and Xiao-Ming Lu and Yunbo Zhang and Libin Fu and Shu Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16215},
year = {2025}
}