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Quantifying how far the output of a learning algorithm is from its target is an essential task in machine learning. However, in quantum settings, the loss landscapes of commonly used distance metrics often produce undesirable outcomes such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Bobak Toussi Kiani , Giacomo De Palma , Milad Marvian , Zi-Wen Liu , Seth Lloyd

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

This paper posits the existence of, and finds a candidate for, a variable change that allows quantum mechanics to be interpreted as quantum geometry. The Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom is thought of in terms of an indeterministic electron…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Robert L. Navin

We study optimal transport between probability measures supported on the same finite metric space, where the ground cost is a distance induced by a weighted connected graph. Building on recent work showing that the resulting Kantorovich…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Jérémie Bigot , Luis Fredes

In Optimal Transport (OT) on a finite metric space, one defines a distance on the probability simplex that extends the distance on the ground space. The distance is the value of a Linear Programming (LP) problem on the set of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-14 Giovanni Pistone , Fabio Rapallo , Maria Piera Rogantin

By a quantum metric space we mean a C^*-algebra (or more generally an order-unit space) equipped with a generalization of the Lipschitz seminorm on functions which is defined by an ordinary metric. We develop for compact quantum metric…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc A. Rieffel

A quantum ensemble $\{(p_x, \rho_x)\}$ is a set of quantum states each occurring randomly with a given probability. Quantum ensembles are necessary to describe situations with incomplete a priori information, such as the output of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-30 Ognyan Oreshkov , John Calsamiglia

We consider the Monge-Kantorovich problem between two random measuress. More precisely, given probability measures $\mathbb{P}_1,\mathbb{P}_2\in\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{P}(M))$ on the space $\mathcal{P}(M)$ of probability measures on a smooth…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Pedram Emami , Brendan Pass

1. Complex systems of moving and interacting objects are ubiquitous in the natural and social sciences. Predicting their behavior often requires models that mimic these systems with sufficient accuracy, while accounting for their inherent…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-02 Jonathan R. Potts , Marie Auger-Méthé , Karl Mokross , Mark A. Lewis

The Monge-Kantorovich problem for the infinite Wasserstein distance presents several peculiarities. Among them the lack of convexity and then of a direct duality. We study in dimension 1 the dual problem introduced by Barron, Bocea and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Luigi De Pascale , Jean Louet

We consider probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^{\infty}$ and study optimal transportation mappings for the case of infinite Kantorovich distance. Our examples include 1) quasi-product measures, 2) measures with certain symmetric…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Danila A. Zaev

With the help of a given distance matrix of size $n$, we construct an infinite family of distances $d_p$ (where $p \geq 2$) on the complex projective space $\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{C}^n)$ modelling the space of pure states of an $n$-level…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Tomasz Miller , Rafał Bistroń

For two multisets $S$ and $T$ of points in $[\Delta]^2$, such that $|S| = |T|= n$, the earth-mover distance (EMD) between $S$ and $T$ is the minimum cost of a perfect bipartite matching with edges between points in $S$ and $T$, i.e.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Arman Yousefi , Rafail Ostrovsky

In this paper, we investigate the geodesic structure and the associated Kantorovich-type duality for a Benamou-Brenier-type transportation metric defined on the space of nonnegative measures over a finite reversible Markov chain. The metric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Qifan Mao , Xinyu Wang , Xiaoping Xue

The complex projective space $\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{C}^n)$ can be interpreted as the space of all quantum pure states of size $n$. A distance on this space, interesting from the perspective of quantum physics, can be induced from a classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Rafał Bistroń , Michał Eckstein , Shmuel Friedland , Tomasz Miller , Karol Życzkowski

Momentum space of a gapped quantum system is a metric space: it admits a notion of distance reflecting properties of its quantum ground state. By using this quantum metric, we investigate geometric properties of momentum space. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Shunji Matsuura , Shinsei Ryu

The relation between quantum theory and special relativity is peculiar. On the one hand it is close and essential. Steven Weinberg [1], for example, takes the position that the standard model is an inevitable consequence of the marriage of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Jerome Blackman

For probability measures on a complete separable metric space, we present sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to the Kantorovich transportation problem. We also obtain sufficient conditions (which sometimes also become…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 S. Ekisheva , C. Houdré

Distances between quantum states are reviewed within the framework of the tomographic-probability representation. Tomographic approach is based on observed probabilities and is straightforward for data processing. Different states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 S. N. Filippov , V. I. Man'ko

The motion of a quantum particle constrained to a two-dimensional non-compact Riemannian manifold with non-trivial metric can be described by a flat-space Schroedinger-type equation at the cost of introducing local mass and metric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Benjamin Schwager , Theresa Appel , Jamal Berakdar