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In this paper, a characterization of maps between quantum states that preserve pure states and strict convex combinations is obtained. Based on this characterization, a structural theorem for maps between multipartite quantum states that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Lihua Yang , Jinchuan Hou

The notion of distance in Hilbert space is relevant in many scenarios. In particular, distances between quantum states play a central role in quantum information theory. An appropriate measure of distance is the quantum Jensen Shannon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 A. P. Majtey , A. Borras , M. Casas , P. W. Lamberti , A. Plastino

When it comes to discriminating between two quantum states, trace distance is one of the well-known metrics used in quantum computation and quantum information theory. While there are several quantum algorithms for calculating the trace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Sanchita Ghosh , Anumita Mukhopadhyay , Anindita Bera , Prasenjit Deb , Shibdas Roy

Probabilistic quantum state transformations can be characterized by the degree of state separation they provide. This, in turn, sets limits on the success rate of these transformations. We consider optimum state separation of two known pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Emilio Bagan , Vadim Yerokhin , Andi Shehu , Edgar Feldman , Janos A. Bergou

We introduce a new approach to evaluating entangled quantum networks using information geometry. Quantum computing is powerful because of the enhanced correlations from quantum entanglement. For example, larger entangled networks can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Warner A. Miller

The advantage that quantum systems provide for certain quantum information processing tasks over their classical counterparts can be quantified within the general framework of resource theories. Certain distance functions between quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Lucas Tendick , Martin Kliesch , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

We construct an analogue of the classical $L^p$-Wasserstein distance for the state space of a $C^*$-algebra. Given an abstract Lipschitz gauge on a $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ in the sense of Rieffel, one can define the classical…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Danila Zaev

We develop a general approach to setting up and studying classes of quantum dynamical systems close to and structurally similar to systems having specified properties, in particular detailed balance. This is done in terms of transport plans…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rocco Duvenhage , Samuel Skosana , Machiel Snyman

Topological Data Analysis methods can be useful for classification and clustering tasks in many different fields as they can provide two dimensional persistence diagrams that summarize important information about the shape of potentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Bernardo Ameneyro , Rebekah Herrman , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas

Quantum state separation is a probabilistic map that transforms a given set of pure states into another set of more distinguishable ones. Here we investigate such a map acting onto uniparametric families of symmetric linearly dependent or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 M. A. Solís-Prosser , A. Delgado , O. Jiménez , L. Neves

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

We show how the Riemannian distance on $\mathbb{S}^n_{++}$, the cone of $n\times n$ real symmetric or complex Hermitian positive definite matrices, may be used to naturally define a distance between two such matrices of different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Lek-Heng Lim , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Ke Ye

This paper is a companion paper to [Lipman and Daubechies 2011]. We provide numerical procedures and algorithms for computing the alignment of and distance between two disk type surfaces. We provide a convergence analysis of the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Yaron Lipman , Jesus Puente , Ingrid Daubechies

In this work, we perform an in-depth study of recently introduced average-case quantum distances. The average-case distances approximate the average Total-Variation (TV) distance between measurement outputs of two quantum processes, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Filip B. Maciejewski , Zbigniew Puchała , Michał Oszmaniec

We present a quantum theory of distances along a curve, based on a linear line element that is equal to the operator square root of the quadratic metric of Riemannian geometry. Since the linear line element is an operator, we treat it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-06 Ronald J. Adler

We show that the manifold of quantum states is endowed with a rich and nontrivial geometric structure. We derive the Fubini-Study metric of the projective Hilbert space of a multi-qubit quantum system, endowing it with a Riemannian metric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Arthur Vesperini , Ghofrane Bel-Hadj-Aissa , Lorenzo Capra , Roberto Franzosi

A general framework is described which associates geometrical structures to any set of $D$ finite-dimensional hermitian matrices $X^a, \ a=1,...,D$. This framework generalizes and systematizes the well-known examples of fuzzy spaces, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-09 Harold C. Steinacker

Quantum state tomography, the ability to deduce the density matrix of a quantum system from measured data, is of fundamental importance for the verification of present and future quantum devices. It has been realized in systems with few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-22 M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

In the study of dynamical and physical systems, the input parameters are often uncertain or randomly distributed according to a measure $\varrho$. The system's response $f$ pushes forward $\varrho$ to a new measure $f\circ \varrho$ which we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Amir Sagiv

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