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We study quantum statistical inference tasks of hypothesis testing and their canonical variations, in order to review relations between their corresponding figures of merit---measures of statistical distance---and demonstrate the crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Marcin Jarzyna , Jan Kolodynski

In this paper, we show how information geometry, the natural geometry of discrete probability distributions, can be used to derive the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon three elementary features of quantum phenomena, namely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-14 Philip Goyal

We consider torsion in parameter manifolds that arises via conformal transformations of the Fisher information metric, and define it for information geometry of a wide class of physical systems. The torsion can be used to differentiate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

Random fields are useful mathematical objects in the characterization of non-deterministic complex systems. A fundamental issue in the evolution of dynamical systems is how intrinsic properties of such structures change in time. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Alexandre L. M. Levada

It has been suggested that an information geometric view of statistical mechanics in which a metric is introduced onto the space of parameters provides an interesting alternative characterisation of the phase structure, particularly in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Janke , D. A. Johnston , Ranasinghe P. K. C. Malmini

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

We examine phase transition of the Husimi-Temperley model in terms of information geometry. For this purpose, we introduce the Fisher metric defined by the density matrix of the model. We find that the metric becomes hyperbolic at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-11 Yoichiro Hashizume , Hiroaki Matsueda

These are course notes for the 'Introduction to holography' Master level course at University of Cologne. The goal of the course is to give a pedogogical introduction to holography. Holography is a popular approach to quantum gravity, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Nele Callebaut

We analyze geometric terms and scaling properties of the Shannon mutual information in the continuum. This is done for a free massless scalar field theory in $d$-dimensions, in a coherent state reduced with respect to a general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 David R. Junior , Luis E. Oxman

The Fisher information metric is an important foundation of information geometry, wherein it allows us to approximate the local geometry of a probability distribution. Recurrent neural networks such as the Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-09 Alessandro Bay , Biswa Sengupta

Local information objectivity, that local, independent observers can infer the same information about a model upon exchange of independently acquired experimental data, is fundamental to science. It is mathematically encoded via Cencov's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Per Berglund , Andrew Geraci , Tristan Hubsch , David Mattingly , Djordje Minic

We find the information geometry of tempered stable processes. Beginning with the derivation of $\alpha$-divergence between two tempered stable processes, we obtain the corresponding Fisher information matrices and the $\alpha$-connections…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jaehyung Choi

Variance and Fisher information are ingredients of the Cramer-Rao inequality. We regard Fisher information as a Riemannian metric on a quantum statistical manifold and choose monotonicity under coarse graining as the fundamental property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Denes Petz

Information theory is a powerful framework to capture aspects of dynamical systems with multiple degrees of freedom. Mathematically, the dynamics can be represented as a continuous curve $\mathcal{C}$ on a suitable hyperplane in flat space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mattia Carrino , Stefan Hohenegger

The idea that a spacetime metric emerges as a Fisher-Rao `information metric' of instanton moduli space has been examined in several field theories such as the Yang-Mills theories and nonlinear sigma models. In this brief paper, we report…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Umpei Miyamoto , Shigeaki Yahikozawa

A model in statistical mechanics, characterised by the corresponding Gibbs measure, is a subset of the totality of probability distributions on the phase space. The shape of this subset, i.e., the geometry, then plays an important role in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Brody , A. Ritz

This paper presents a novel method for analyzing the latent space geometry of generative models, including statistical physics models and diffusion models, by reconstructing the Fisher information metric. The method approximates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Alexander Lobashev , Dmitry Guskov , Maria Larchenko , Mikhail Tamm

According to the holographic principle all information in the bulk of a space is coded at its border. We will check this statement in three situations involving the AdS/CFT correspondence. There is a well known equivalence between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor O. Rivelles

In this thesis we apply techniques from quantum information theory to study quantum gravity within the framework of the anti-de Sitter / conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT). Through AdS/CFT, progress has been made in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 Jesse C. Cresswell

Quantum geometry underlies many fundamental properties of materials, but it has remained largely inaccessible to direct experiment. Here we demonstrate that inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) provides a direct, quantitative probe of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 David Bałut , Barry Bradlyn , Marcus D. Collins , Peter Abbamonte