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We study the fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions (QPTs) and apply it to general thermal phase transitions (PTs). We analyze two particular cases: the Stoner-Hubbard itinerant electron model of magnetism and the BCS theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikola Paunkovic , Vitor Rocha Vieira

The geometry of quantum states has profound implications in quantum multiparameter estimation. While the Riemannian structure of quantum state space is well understood, the full understanding of the curvature structure of mixed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yi-Lin Ge , Bing-Shu Hu , Ling-Yun Deng , Xiao-Ming Lu

We introduce a definition of the fidelity function for multi-round quantum strategies, which we call the strategy fidelity, that is a generalization of the fidelity function for quantum states. We provide many properties of the strategy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Gus Gutoski , Ansis Rosmanis , Jamie Sikora

The Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) plays a crucial role in quantum information theory and in many practical applications such as quantum metrology. However, computing the QFI is generally a computationally demanding task. In this work we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 M. Cerezo , Akira Sone , Jacob L. Beckey , Patrick J. Coles

Fidelity is crucial for characterizing transformations of quantum states under various quantum channels, which can be served as a fundamental tool in resource theories. Firstly, we define an $\alpha$-$z$-fidelity as a significant quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Xiaojing Yan , Xiao Sun , Mingming Du , Jiashan Tang

A fundamental task in any physical theory is to quantify certain physical quantity in a meaningful way. In this paper we show that both fidelity distance and affinity distance satisfy the strong contractibility, and the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Minyi Huang , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen , Junde Wu

The study of quantum channels is the most fundamental theoretical problem in quantum information and quantum communication theory. The link product theory of quantum channels is an important tool for studying quantum networks. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Qiang Lei , Liuheng Cao , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

The Quantum Substate Theorem due to Jain, Radhakrishnan, and Sen (2002) gives us a powerful operational interpretation of relative entropy, in fact, of the observational divergence of two quantum states, a quantity that is related to their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-13 Rahul Jain , Ashwin Nayak

We report a new metric of quantum states. This metric is build up from super-fidelity, which has deep connection with the Uhlmann-Jozsa fidelity and plays an important role in quantifying entanglement. We find that the new metric possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-24 Zhi-Hao Ma , Fu-Lin Zhang , Zhi-Hua Chen , Jing-Ling Chen

We derive several bounds on fidelity between quantum states. In particular we show that fidelity is bounded from above by a simple to compute quantity we call super--fidelity. It is analogous to another quantity called sub--fidelity. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-19 J. A. Miszczak , Z. Puchała , P. Horodecki , A. Uhlmann , K. Życzkowski

We show that any Petz $f$-divergence (where $f$ is operator convex) between quantum states admits a universal $\chi^2$-mixture representation: the distinguishability of $\rho$ from $\sigma$ is obtained as a positive superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Domingos S. P. Salazar

Coherence measures and their operational interpretations lay the cornerstone of coherence theory. In this paper, we introduce a class of coherence measures with $\alpha$-affinity, say $\alpha$-affinity of coherence for $\alpha \in (0, 1)$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

Fidelity is a fundamental measure for the closeness of two quantum states, which is important both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. Yet, in general, it is difficult to give good estimates of fidelity, especially when one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 András Gilyén , Alexander Poremba

$f$-divergences, which quantify discrepancy between probability distributions, are ubiquitous in information theory, machine learning, and statistics. While there are numerous methods for estimating $f$-divergences from data, a limit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

It is shown that loop divergences emerging in the Green functions in quantum field theory originate from correspondence of the Green functions to {\em unmeasurable} (and hence unphysical) quantities. This is because no physical quantity can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-08 M. V. Altaisky

The entanglement fidelity provides a measure of how well the entanglement between two subsystems is preserved in a quantum process. By using a simple model we show that in some cases this quantity in its original definition fails in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Xiang , Shi-Jie Xiong

The fidelity susceptibility measures sensitivity of eigenstates to a change of an external parameter. It has been fruitfully used to pin down quantum phase transitions when applied to ground states (with extensions to thermal states). Here…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-04-10 Piotr Sierant , Artur Maksymov , Marek Kuś , Jakub Zakrzewski

Jensen-Shannon divergence (JD) is a symmetrized and smoothed version of the most important divergence measure of information theory, Kullback divergence. As opposed to Kullback divergence it determines in a very direct way a metric; indeed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Jop Briët , Peter Harremoës

Applications of quantum technology often require fidelities to quantify performance. These provide a fundamental yardstick for the comparison of two quantum states. While this is straightforward in the case of pure states, it is much more…

Geometric phases play a fundamental role in understanding quantum topology, yet extending the Uhlmann phase to non-Hermitian systems poses significant challenges due to parameter-dependent inner product structures. In this work, we develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Xu-Yang Hou , Xin Wang , Hao Guo