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The contraction of tensor networks is a central task in the application of tensor network methods to the study of quantum and classical many body systems. In this paper, we investigate the impact of gauge degrees of freedom in the virtual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-27 Wei Tang , Frank Verstraete , Jutho Haegeman

We review the introduction of likelihood functions and Fisher information in classical estimation theory, and we show how they can be defined in a very similar manner within quantum measurement theory. We show that the stochastic master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Søren Gammelmark , Klaus Mølmer

An effective characterization of chaotic conservative Hamiltonian systems in terms of the curvature associated with a Riemannian metric tensor derived from the structure of the Hamiltonian has been extended to a wide class of potential…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yossi Ben Zion , Lawrence Horwitz

Symmetries impose structure on the Hilbert space of a quantum mechanical model. The mathematical units of this structure are the irreducible representations of symmetry groups and I consider how they function as conceptual units of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 N. L. Harshman

In the present work the problem of distinguishing between essential and spurious (i.e., absorbable) constants contained in a metric tensor field in a Riemannian geometry is considered. The contribution of the study is the presentation of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. O. Papadopoulos

We give a notion of entropy for general gemetric structures, which generalizes well-known notions of topological entropy of vector fields and geometric entropy of foliations, and which can also be applied to singular objects, e.g. singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Nguyen Tien Zung

We study the evolution of turbulent magnetic fields from a topological point of view, invoking commonplace mathematical tools from general topology and dynamical systems theory which connect magnetic field evolution to time reversal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-12 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac

An extended body orbiting a compact object undergoes tidal deformations by the background gravitational field. Tidal invariants built up with the Riemann tensor and their derivatives evaluated along the world line of the body are essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-21 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

Quantum Fisher information matrices (QFIMs) are fundamental to estimation theory: they encode the ultimate limit for the sensitivity with which a set of parameters can be estimated using a given probe. Since the limit invokes the inverse of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Aaron Z. Goldberg , José L. Romero , Ángel S. Sanz , Luis L. Sánchez-Soto

Immersed boundary methods are extensively used for simulations of dynamic solid objects interacting with fluids due to their computational efficiency and modelling flexibility compared to body-fitted grid methods. However, thin geometries,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

The time evolution of a bounded quantum system is considered in the framework of the orthogonal, unitary and symplectic circular ensembles of random matrix theory. For an $N$ dimensional Hilbert space we prove that in the large $N$ limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 P. Leboeuf , G. Iacomelli

We develop a geometric framework for irreversible transport phenomena in which macroscopic evolution equations arise from the combined structure of a thermodynamic state metric and an Onsager-based dissipation metric. The construction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sami Lakka

We develop a generally covariant description of evolutionary dynamics that operates consistently in both genotype and phenotype spaces. We show that the maximum entropy principle yields a fundamental identification between the inverse…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-17 Vitaly Vanchurin

Imaging systems are represented as linear operators, and their singular value spectra describe the structure recoverable at the operator level. Building on an operator-based information-theoretic framework, this paper introduces a minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Charles Wood

The Fisher information matrix can be used to characterize the local geometry of the parameter space of neural networks. It elucidates insightful theories and useful tools to understand and optimize neural networks. Given its high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Alexander Soen , Ke Sun

Dynamical system properties give rise to effects in Statistical Mechanics. Topological index changes can be the basis for phase transitions. The Euler characteristic is a versatile topological invariant that can be evaluated for model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

We present a general construction of a geometric notion of circuit complexity for Gaussian states (both bosonic and fermionic) in terms of Riemannian geometry. We lay out general conditions that a Riemannian metric function on the space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Bruno de S. L. Torres , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We discuss here the use of generalized forms of entropy, taken as information measures, to characterize phase transitions and critical behavior in thermodynamic systems. Our study is based on geometric considerations pertaining to the space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-14 M. Portesi , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

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

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