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The concept of Fisher information can be useful even in cases where the probability distributions of interest are not absolutely continuous with respect to the natural reference measure on the underlying space. Practical examples where this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Jeremie Houssineau , Ajay Jasra , Sumeetpal S. Singh

We prove an extended convexity for quantum Fisher information of a mixed state with a given convex decomposition. This convexity introduces a bound which has two parts: i. classical part associated to the Fisher information of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani

We develop a general method to study the Fisher information distance in central limit theorem for nonlinear statistics. We first construct completely new representations for the score function. We then use these representations to derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Nguyen Tien Dung

The two principal/immediate influences -- which we seek to interrelate here -- upon the undertaking of this study are papers of Zyczkowski and Slomczy\'nski (J. Phys. A 34, 6689 [2001]) and of Petz and Sudar (J. Math. Phys. 37, 2262…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul B. Slater

We show how to verify the metrological usefulness of quantum states based on the expectation values of an arbitrarily chosen set of observables. In particular, we estimate the quantum Fisher information as a figure of merit of metrological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Iagoba Apellaniz , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne , Geza Toth

Fisher information is a measure of the best precision with which a parameter can be estimated from statistical data. It can also be defined for a continuous random variable without reference to any parameters, in which case it has a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-03-22 S. Prasad , N. C. Menicucci

Motivated by the information bound for the asymptotic variance of M-estimates for scale, we define Fisher information of scale of any distribution function F on the real line as a suitable supremum. In addition, we enforce equivariance by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Peter Ruckdeschel , Helmut Rieder

We consider the problem of estimating an arbitrary dynamical parameter of an quantum open system in the input-output formalism. For irreducible Markov processes, we show that in the limit of large times the system-output state can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Catalin Catana , Luc Bouten , Madalin Guta

Uncertain input of a mathematical model induces uncertainties in the output and probabilistic sensitivity analysis identifies the influential inputs to guide decision-making. Of practical concern is the probability that the output would, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jiannan Yang

We present a self-contained and comprehensive study of the Fisher-Rao space of matrix-valued non-commutative probability measures, and of the related Hellinger space. Our non-commutative Fisher-Rao space is a natural generalization of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Léonard Monsaingeon , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We derive a new variational principle for the quantum Fisher information leading to a simple iterative alternating algorithm, the convergence of which is proved. The case of a fixed measurement, i.e. the classical Fisher information, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Katarzyna Macieszczak

In this short note we review the dynamical Schr\"odinger problem on the non-commutative Fisher-Rao space of positive semi-definite matrix-valued measures. The presentation is meant to be self-contained, and we discuss in particular…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Léonard Monsaingeon , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We develop a Fisher-informational reformulation of physical time in which clock time is not regarded as a fundamental ontological substance, but as an emergent calibration of causally ordered distinguishability among physical states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 J. Sumaya-Martinez

An Edgeworth-type expansion is established for the relative Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of sums of i.i.d. random variables, satisfying moment conditions. The validity of the central limit theorem is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-01 S. G. Bobkov , G. P. Chistyakov , F. Götze

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a fundamental quantity of interest in many areas from quantum metrology to quantum information theory. It can in particular be used as a witness to establish the degree of multi-particle entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Aniket Rath , Cyril Branciard , Anna Minguzzi , Benoît Vermersch

Fisher Information is a key notion in the whole field of quantum metrology. It allows for a direct quantification of maximal achievable precision of estimation of parameters encoded in quantum states using the most general quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Fisher Information (FI) is a quantity ubiquitously measured in such varied areas like metrology, machine learning, and biological complexity. Mathematically, it represents a lower bound in the variance of unknown parameters that are related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Pedro B. Melo , Sílvio M. Duarte Queirós , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , Welles A. M. Morgado

The relevance of the concept of Fisher information is increasing in both statistical physics and quantum computing. From a statistical mechanical standpoint, the application of Fisher information in the kinetic theory of gases is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

We analyze the Shannon and Fisher information measures for systems subjected to quartic and symmetric potential wells. The wave functions are obtained by solving the time-independent Schr\"{o}dinger equation, using aspects of perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Vikash Kumar Ojha , Ramkumar Radhakrishnan , Mariyah Ughradar

We show that both the classical as well as the quantum definitions of the Fisher information faithfully identify resourceful quantum states in general quantum resource theories, in the sense that they can always distinguish between states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Kok Chuan Tan , Varun Narasimhachar , Bartosz Regula