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We study the complexity of both time-optimal and time sub-optimal quantum Hamiltonian evolutions connecting arbitrary source and a target states on the Bloch sphere equipped with the Fubini-Study metric. This investigation is performed in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Carlo Cafaro , Leonardo Rossetti , Paul M. Alsing

When studying the geometry of quantum states, it is acknowledged that mixed states can be distinguished by infinitely many metrics. Unfortunately, this freedom causes metric-dependent interpretations of physically significant geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Paul M. Alsing , Carlo Cafaro , Domenico Felice , Orlando Luongo

In the geometry of quantum evolutions, a geodesic path is viewed as a path of minimal statistical length connecting two pure quantum states along which the maximal number of statistically distinguishable states is minimum. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

This paper presents an introduction to geometric representations of quantum states in which each distinct quantum state, pure and mixed, corresponds to a unique point in a Euclidean space. Beginning with a review of some underappreciated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Athanasios Kostikas , Yaroslav Valchyshen , Paul Cadden-Zimansky

We enhance our quantitative comprehension of the complexity associated with both time-optimal and time sub-optimal quantum Hamiltonian evolutions that connect arbitrary source and target states on the Bloch sphere, as recently presented in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Carlo Cafaro , Emma Clements , Abeer Alanazi

We study the geodesics on the manifold of mixed quantum states for the Bures metric. It is shown that these geodesics correspond to physical non-Markovian evolutions of the system coupled to an ancilla. Furthermore, we argue that geodesics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Dominique Spehner

We compare Krylov's state complexity with an information-geometric (IG) measure of complexity for the quantum evolution of two-level systems. Focusing on qubit dynamics on the Bloch sphere, we analyze evolutions generated by stationary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Carlo Cafaro , Emma Clements , Vishnu Vardhan Anuboyina

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

The Bloch Sphere visualization of the possible states of a single qubit has proved a useful pedagogical and conceptual tool as a one-to-one map between qubit states and points in a 3-D space. However, understanding many important concepts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Li-Heng Henry Chang , Shea Roccaforte , Ziyu Xu , Paul Cadden-Zimansky

Quantum geometry is a key quantity that distinguishes electrons in a crystal from those in the vacuum. Its study continues to provide insights into quantum materials, uncovering new design principles for their discovery. However, unlike the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tyler B. Smith , Lakshmi Pullasseri , Ajit Srivastava

It is known that there are infinitely many distinguishability metrics for mixed quantum states. This freedom, in turn, leads to metric-dependent interpretations of physically meaningful geometric quantities such as complexity and volume of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Paul M. Alsing , Carlo Cafaro , Orlando Luongo , Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Mancini , Hernando Quevedo

Physical constraints such as positivity endow the set of quantum states with a rich geometry if the system dimension is greater than two. To shed some light on the complicated structure of the set of quantum states, we consider a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Schirmer , T. Zhang , J. V. Leahy

We characterize the complexity of geodesic paths on a curved statistical manifold M_{s} through the asymptotic computation of the information geometric complexity V_{M_{s}} and the Jacobi vector field intensity J_{M_{s}}. The manifold M_{s}…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Carlo Cafaro , Stefano Mancini

We present an information geometric analysis of entropic speeds and entropy production rates in geodesic evolution on manifolds of parametrized quantum states. These pure states emerge as outputs of suitable su(2; C) time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

The set of quantum states consists of density matrices of order $N$, which are hermitian, positive and normalized by the trace condition. We analyze the structure of this set in the framework of the Euclidean geometry naturally arising in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Ingemar Bengtsson , Stephan Weis , Karol Życzkowski

Understanding the structure of multi-qubit quantum states is essential for both quantum information research and education, yet intuitive visualization beyond the single-qubit Bloch sphere remains challenging. In this work, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Satoru Shoji

We present an information geometric analysis of both entropic speeds and entropy production rates arising from geodesic evolution on manifolds parametrized by pure quantum states. In particular, we employ pure states that emerge as outputs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Steven Gassner , Carlo Cafaro , Sean A. Ali , Paul M. Alsing

We study measurement-induced nonlinear dynamics generated by an iterated quantum protocol combining an entangling gate, a single-qubit rotation, and post-selection. For pure single-qubit inputs, a particular choice of the single-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Attila Portik , Orsolya Kálmán , Tamás Kiss

We elucidate the Bures metric in quantum state space near a rank-changing point of the density matrix and show contrasting behavior for two-level ($N=2$) systems versus higher-level systems. Due to the smooth pure-state boundary for $N=2$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yu-Huan Huang , Xu-Yang Hou , Guo Hao , Chih-Chun Chien

Geometric intuition is a crucial tool to obtain deeper insight into many concepts of physics. A paradigmatic example of its power is the Bloch ball, the geometrical representation for the state space of the simplest possible quantum system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Christopher Eltschka , Marcus Huber , Simon Morelli , Jens Siewert
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