English
Related papers

Related papers: Geometry and structure of quantum phase space

200 papers

An algebraic formulation of Riemannian geometry on quantum spaces is presented, where Riemannian metric, distance, Laplacian, connection, and curvature have their counterparts. This description is also extended to complex manifolds.…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Pei-Ming Ho

We use tools from the theory of dynamical systems with symmetries to stratify Uhlmann's standard purification bundle and derive a new connection for mixed quantum states. For unitarily evolving systems, this connection gives rise to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

Candidate microstates of a spherically symmetric geometry are constructed in the group field theory formalism for quantum gravity, for models including both quantum geometric and scalar matter degrees of freedom. The latter are used as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-17 Daniele Oriti , Yi-Li Wang

In this paper we present a survey of the use of differential geometric formalisms to describe Quantum Mechanics. We analyze Schr\"odinger framework from this perspective and provide a description of the Weyl-Wigner construction. Finally,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-13 J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo

Geometric quantum mechanics, through its differential-geometric underpinning, provides additional tools of analysis and interpretation that bring quantum mechanics closer to classical mechanics: state spaces in both are equipped with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Fabio Anza , James P. Crutchfield

A quantum system's state is identified with a density matrix. Though their probabilistic interpretation is rooted in ensemble theory, density matrices embody a known shortcoming. They do not completely express an ensemble's physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Fabio Anza , James P. Crutchfield

The kinematical setting of spherically symmetric quantum geometry, derived from the full theory of loop quantum gravity, is developed. This extends previous studies of homogeneous models to inhomogeneous ones where interesting field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Bojowald

Quantum state space is endowed with a metric structure and Riemannian monotone metric is an important geometric entity defined on such a metric space. Riemannian monotone metrics are very useful for information-theoretic and statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Prasenjit Deb

We consider a geometrization, i.e., we identify geometrical structures, for the space of density states of a quantum system. We also provide few comments on a possible application of this geometrization for composite systems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria

We show that it is possible to represent various descriptions of Quantum Mechanics in geometrical terms. In particular we start with the space of observables and use the momentum map associated with the unitary group to provide an unified…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Carinena , J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo

Geometric phase has found a broad spectrum of applications in both classical and quantum physics, such as condensed matter and quantum computation. In this paper we introduce an operational geometric phase for mixed quantum states, based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

We study the influence of geometry of quantum systems underlying space of states on its quantum many-body dynamics. We observe an interplay between dynamical and topological ingredients of quantum non-equilibrium dynamics revealed by the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-26 Michael Tomka , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Vladimir Gritsev

Geometric phases, arising from cyclic evolutions in a curved parameter space, appear in a wealth of physical settings. Recently, and largely motivated by the need of an experimentally realistic definition for quantum computing applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-04 F. M. Cucchietti , J. -F. Zhang , F. C. Lombardo , P. I. Villar , R. Laflamme

The relativistic quantum phase space (QPS) formalism extends classical phase space by incorporating both mean values and variance-covariance matrices of quantum states, thereby providing a unified setting where the uncertainty principle and…

Quantum geometry, characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, is pivotal in diverse physical phenomena in quantum materials. In condensed matter systems, quantum geometry refers to the geoemtric properties of Bloch states in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jiabin Yu , B. Andrei Bernevig , Raquel Queiroz , Enrico Rossi , Päivi Törmä , Bohm-Jung Yang

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

In this paper, we address a foundational challenge in quantum field theory on curved spacetime by developing a consistent framework within loop quantum gravity. We introduce a methodology for defining meaningful superpositions of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Gaoping Long , Cong Zhang

This is a self-contained introduction to quantum Riemannian geometry based on quantum groups as frame groups, and its proposed role in quantum gravity. Much of the article is about the generalisation of classical Riemannian geometry that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Majid

The set of quantum states consists of density matrices of order $N$, which are hermitian, positive and normalized by the trace condition. We analyze the structure of this set in the framework of the Euclidean geometry naturally arising in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Ingemar Bengtsson , Stephan Weis , Karol Życzkowski

The basic framework for a systematic construction of a quantum theory of Riemannian geometry was introduced recently. The quantum versions of Riemannian structures --such as triad and area operators-- exhibit a non-commutativity. At first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Abhay Ashtekar , Alejandro Corichi , Jose. A. Zapata