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This paper lays the foundations for a unified framework for numerically and computationally applying methods drawn from a range of currently distinct geometrical approaches to statistical modelling. In so doing, it extends information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Karim Anaya-Izquierdo , Frank Critchley , Paul Marriott , Paul W. Vos

Computational complexity is a new quantum information concept that may play an important role in holography and in understanding the physics of the black hole interior. We consider quantum computational complexity for $n$ qubits using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-21 Roberto Auzzi , Stefano Baiguera , G. Bruno De Luca , Andrea Legramandi , Giuseppe Nardelli , Nicolò Zenoni

The unitary dynamics of quantum systems can be modeled as a trajectory on a Riemannian manifold. This theoretical framework naturally yields a purely geometric interpretation of computational complexity for quantum algorithms, a notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Alberto Acevedo , Antonio Falco

This thesis explores important concepts in the area of quantum information geometry and their relationships. We highlight the unique characteristics of these concepts that arise from their quantum mechanical foundations and emphasize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Sergio B. Juárez

We study the classical problem of computing geometric thickness, i.e., finding a straight-line drawing of an input graph and a partition of its edges into as few parts as possible so that each part is crossing-free. Since the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Thomas Depian , Simon Dominik Fink , Alexander Firbas , Robert Ganian , Martin Nöllenburg

A measure for the maximum quantum information transfer capacity (ITC) between nodes of a spin network is defined, and shown to induce a metric on a space of equivalence classes of nodes for homogeneous chains with XX and Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 E Jonckheere , S G Schirmer , F C Langbein

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) characterizes the Hilbert space geometry of the eigenstates of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian. In recent years, the QGT and related quantities have found extensive theoretical and experimental utility,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-20 Rustem Sharipov , Anastasiia Tiutiakina , Alexander Gorsky , Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Despite encouraging recent progresses in ensemble approaches, classification methods seem to have reached a plateau in development. Further advances depend on a better understanding of geometrical and topological characteristics of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tin Kam Ho

Quantifying integrated information is a leading approach towards building a fundamental theory of consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) has gained attention in this regard due to its theoretically strong framework. However, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Mohit Virmani , Nithin Nagaraj

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a prominent theory of consciousness that has at its centre measures that quantify the extent to which a system generates more information than the sum of its parts. While several candidate measures of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-30 Pedro A. M. Mediano , Anil K. Seth , Adam B. Barrett

Information geometry provides a geometric approach to families of statistical models. The key geometric structures are the Fisher quadratic form and the Amari-Chentsov tensor. In statistics, the notion of sufficient statistic expresses the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Nihat Ay , Jürgen Jost , Hông Vân Lê , Lorenz Schwachhöfer

Integrated Gradients (IG) is a common explainability technique to address the black-box problem of neural networks. Integrated gradients assumes continuous data. Graphs are discrete structures making IG ill-suited to graphs. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Lachlan Simpson , Kyle Millar , Adriel Cheng , Cheng-Chew Lim , Hong Gunn Chew

In this Thesis we examine the interplay between the encoding of information in quantum systems and their geometrical and topological properties. We first study photonic qubit probes of space-time curvature, showing how gauge-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Tommaso F. Demarie

Network or graph structures are ubiquitous in the study of complex systems. Often, we are interested in complexity trends of these system as it evolves under some dynamic. An example might be looking at the complexity of a food web as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Russell K. Standish

A novel information-geometric approach to chaotic dynamics on curved statistical manifolds based on Entropic Dynamics (ED) is suggested. Furthermore, an information-geometric analogue of the Zurek-Paz quantum chaos criterion is proposed. It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carlo Cafaro

Recently, there is a growing interest in study quantum mechanics from the information geometry perspective, where a quantum state is depicted with a point in the projective Hilbert space. By taking quantum Fisher information (QFI) as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Haijun Xing , Libin Fu

Generalized Probabilistic Theories (GPTs) provide a unified framework for describing probabilistic physical theories, encompassing classical and quantum theories as well as hypothetical theories beyond quantum mechanics. Since most GPTs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Koki Ono , Shun Umekawa , Hiroyasu Tajima

The complexity of highly interconnected systems is rooted in the interwoven architecture defined by its connectivity structure. In this paper, we develop matrix energy of the underlying connectivity structure as a measure of topological…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-31 Kaushik Sinha , Olivier L. de Weck

We present a systematic and consistent construction of geometrothermodynamics by using Riemannian contact geometry for the phase manifold and harmonic maps for the equilibrium manifold. We present several metrics for the phase manifold that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Hernando Quevedo , Alberto Sanchez , Safia Taj , Alejandro Vazquez

Although the notion of entropy lies at the core of statistical mechanics, it is not often used in statistical mechanical models to characterize phase transitions, a role more usually played by quantities such as various order parameters,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 D. A. Johnston , W. Janke , R. Kenna