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We propose a new generalization to quantum states of the Wasserstein distance, which is a fundamental distance between probability distributions given by the minimization of a transport cost. Our proposal is the first where the transport…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Giacomo De Palma , Dario Trevisan

The present paper studies an operator norm that captures the distinguishability of quantum strategies in the same sense that the trace norm captures the distinguishability of quantum states or the diamond norm captures the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Gus Gutoski

Partial trace is a very important mathematical operation in quantum mechanics. It is not only helpful in studying the subsystems of a composite quantum system but also used in computing a vast majority of quantum entanglement measures.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-28 Pranay Barkataki , M. S. Ramkarthik

Recent developments in the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics have brought the theory closer to that of classical probability and statistics. On the other hand, the unique character of quantum physics sets many of the questions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen , R. D. Gill , P. E. Jupp

Introducing contravariant trace-densities for quantum states, we restore one to one correspondence between quantum operations described by normal CP maps and their trace densities as Hermitian positive operator-valued contravariant kernels.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 V P Belavkin

Given a positive integer k, it is natural to ask for a formula for the distance between a given density matrix (i.e., mixed quantum state) and the set of density matrices of rank at most k. This problem has already been solved when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Nathaniel Johnston , Chi-Kwong Li

Trace decreasing quantum operations naturally emerge in experiments involving postselection. However, the experiments usually focus on dynamics of the conditional output states as if the dynamics were trace preserving. Here we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sergey N. Filippov

Quantum walks, both discrete (coined) and continuous time, form the basis of several quantum algorithms and have been used to model processes such as transport in spin chains and quantum chemistry. The enhanced spreading and mixing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Godfrey Leung , Paul Knott , Joe Bailey , Viv Kendon

The tight, in a sense, lower estimates of diamond-norm distance from a given quantum channel to the sets of degradable, antidegradable and entanglement-breaking channels are obtained via the tight continuity bounds for quantum mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 M. E. Shirokov , A. V. Bulinski

In this work, we perform an in-depth study of recently introduced average-case quantum distances. The average-case distances approximate the average Total-Variation (TV) distance between measurement outputs of two quantum processes, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Filip B. Maciejewski , Zbigniew Puchała , Michał Oszmaniec

Non-invertible symmetries of a quantum field theory (QFT) are a natural generalization of unitary symmetries, but in which the product of operators does not satisfy a group multiplication law. We show that such symmetry operations on states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Jonathan J. Heckman , Rebecca J. Hicks , Chitraang Murdia

Based upon the newly proposed partial quantum statistics [T. Zhou, Solid State Commun. 115, 185 (2000)], some canonical physical properties of partially localized electron systems have been calculated. The calculated transport and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Zhou

We develop a systematic method to calculate the trace distance between two reduced density matrices in 1+1 dimensional quantum field theories. The approach exploits the path integral representation of the reduced density matrices and an ad…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-17 Jiaju Zhang , Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

Distances between probability distributions are a key component of many statistical machine learning tasks, from two-sample testing to generative modeling, among others. We introduce a novel distance between measures that compares them…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Arturo Castellanos , Anna Korba , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Hicham Janati

In this work we examine recently proposed distance-based classification method designed for near-term quantum processing units with limited resources. We further study possibilities to reduce the quantum resources without any efficiency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Przemysław Sadowski

Optimal transport provides a powerful mathematical framework with applications spanning numerous fields. A cornerstone within this domain is the $p$-Wasserstein distance, which serves to quantify the cost of transporting one probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Emily Beatty , Daniel Stilck França

Estimating the difference between quantum data is crucial in quantum computing. However, as typical characterizations of quantum data similarity, the trace distance and quantum fidelity are believed to be exponentially-hard to evaluate in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Ranyiliu Chen , Zhixin Song , Xuanqiang Zhao , Xin Wang

A fundamental task in any physical theory is to quantify certain physical quantity in a meaningful way. In this paper we show that both fidelity distance and affinity distance satisfy the strong contractibility, and the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Minyi Huang , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen , Junde Wu

The quantale of distance distributions is of fundamental importance for understanding probabilistic metric spaces as enriched categories. Motivated by the categorical interpretation of partial metric spaces, we are led to investigate the…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Jialiang He , Hongliang Lai , Lili Shen

The theory of optimal transport of probability measures has wide-ranging applications across a number of different fields, including concentration of measure, machine learning, Markov chains, and economics. The generalisation of optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Emily Beatty