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We formulate a geometric framework in which physical laws emerge from restricted access to microscopic information. Measurement constraints are modeled as a gauge symmetry acting on density operators, inducing a gauge-reduced space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tiago Pernambuco , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

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

The position and momentum spreading of the electron distribution of the two-dimensional confined hydrogenic atom, which is a basic prototype of the general multidimensional confined quantum systems, is numerically studied in terms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 C. R. Estañón , N. Aquino , D. Puertas-Centeno , J. S. Dehesa

We present a problem relating measurements and information theory in spin foam models. In the three dimensional case of quantum gravity we can compute probabilities of spin network graphs and study the behaviour of the Shannon entropy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Manuel Garcia-Islas

General characterization of physical measurements is discussed within the framework of a classical information theory. Uncertainty relation for simultaneous measurements of two physical observables is defined in this framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Yoshimasa Kurihara

Studying the geometry of sets appearing in various problems of quantum information helps in understanding different parts of the theory. It is thus worthwhile to approach quantum mechanics from the angle of geometry -- this has already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Konrad Szymański

We propose a compression-based version of the empirical entropy of a finite string over a finite alphabet. Whereas previously one considers the naked entropy of (possibly higher order) Markov processes, we consider the sum of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Paul M. B. Vitányi

Strong and general entropic and geometric Heisenberg limits are obtained, for estimates of multiparameter unitary displacements in quantum metrology, such as the estimation of a magnetic field from the induced rotation of a probe state in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Michael J. W. Hall

We investigate the effect of different metrizations of probability spaces on the information geometric complexity of entropic motion on curved statistical manifolds. Specifically, we provide a comparative analysis based upon Riemannian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Steven Gassner , Carlo Cafaro

Complementarity relations between various characterizations of a probability distribution are at the core of information theory. In particular, lower and upper bounds for the entropic function are of great importance. In applied topics, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Alexey E. Rastegin

Quantum information quantities, such as mutual information and entropies, are essential for characterizing quantum systems and protocols in quantum information science. In this contribution, we identify types of information measures based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Christopher Popp , Tobias C. Sutter , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Information geometry uses the formal tools of differential geometry to describe the space of probability distributions as a Riemannian manifold with an additional dual structure. The formal equivalence of compositional data with discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Ionas Erb , Nihat Ay

In quantum information theory, a geometric approach, known as "quantum information geometry," has been considered as a powerful method. In this thesis, we give a computational geometric interpretation to the geometric structure of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-24 Kimikazu Kato

This essay constitutes a review of the information geometric approach to renormalization developed in the recent works of B\'eny and Osborne as well as a detailed work-through of some of their contents. A noncommutative generalization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 John B. DeBrota

I review recent works showing that information geometry is a useful framework to characterize quantum coherence and entanglement. Quantum systems exhibit peculiar properties which cannot be justified by classical physics, e.g. quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Davide Girolami

Information theoretic quantities play an important role in various settings in machine learning, including causality testing, structure inference in graphical models, time-series problems, feature selection as well as in providing privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Arman Rahimzamani , Himanshu Asnani , Pramod Viswanath , Sreeram Kannan

Information geometry promotes an investigation of the geometric structure of statistical manifolds, providing a series of elucidations in various areas of scientific knowledge. In the physical sciences, especially in quantum theory, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Gabriel F. Magno , Carlos H. Grossi , Gerardo Adesso , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

Information entropic measures such as Fisher information, Shannon entropy, Onicescu energy and Onicescu Shannon entropy of a symmetric double-well potential are calculated in both position and momentum space. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Neetik Mukherjee , Arunesh Roy , Amlan K. Roy

Information entropies give a genuine way to characterize quantitatively an incompatibility in quantum measurements. Together with the Shannon entropy, few families of parametrized entropies have found use in various questions. It is also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

A generalised definition of the metric of quantum states is proposed by using the techniques of differential geometry. The metric of quantum state space derived earlier by Anandan, is reproduced and verified here by this generalised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aalok Pandya , Ashok K. Nagawat