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Braunstein and Caves (1994) proposed to use Helstrom's {\em quantum information} number to define, meaningfully, a metric on the set of all possible states of a given quantum system. They showed that the quantum information is nothing else…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen , R. D. Gill

The naturalness principle has long guided efforts to understand physics beyond the Standard Model, with the hierarchy problem as the central issue. We revisit the role of quantum corrections in the fine-tuning of the low-energy effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-19 Juan P. Garcés , Florian Goertz , Manfred Lindner , Álvaro Pastor-Gutiérrez

We show that the mathematical form of the information measure of Fisher's I for a Gibbs' canonical probability distribution (the most important one in statistical mechanics) incorporates important features of the intrinsic structure of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Pennini , A. Plastino

The mean of an unknown variance-$\sigma^2$ distribution $f$ can be estimated from $n$ samples with variance $\frac{\sigma^2}{n}$ and nearly corresponding subgaussian rate. When $f$ is known up to translation, this can be improved…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Shivam Gupta , Jasper C. H. Lee , Eric Price

The subjects of the paper are the likelihood method (LM) and the expected Fisher information (FI) considered from the point od view of the construction of the physical models which originate in the statistical description of phenomena. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-10-08 E. W. Piotrowski , J. Sladkowski , J. Syska , S. Zajac

In point spread function (PSF) photometry, the selection of the fitting aperture radius plays a critical role in determining the precision of flux and background estimations. Traditional methods often rely on maximizing the signal-to-noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Sebastian Espinosa , Mario L. Vicuña , Rene A. Mendez , Jorge F. Silva , Marcos Orchard

In this paper, we first establish general bounds on the Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of Malliavin differentiable random variables. We then study the rate of Fisher information convergence in the central…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Nguyen Tien Dung , Nguyen Thu Hang

Fisher's information measure plays a very important role in diverse areas of theoretical physics. The associated measures as functionals of quantum probability distributions defined in, respectively, coordinate and momentum spaces, are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-20 Angelo Plastino , Guido Bellomo , Angel R. Plastino

Fisher Information (FI) is a quantity ubiquitously measured in such varied areas like metrology, machine learning, and biological complexity. Mathematically, it represents a lower bound in the variance of unknown parameters that are related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Pedro B. Melo , Sílvio M. Duarte Queirós , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , Welles A. M. Morgado

Common measures of neural representational (dis)similarity are designed to be insensitive to rotations and reflections of the neural activation space. Motivated by the premise that the tuning of individual units may be important, there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Meenakshi Khosla , Alex H. Williams

Probabilistic sensitivity analysis identifies the influential uncertain input to guide decision-making. We propose a general sensitivity framework with respect to the input distribution parameters that unifies a wide range of sensitivity…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-10 Jiannan Yang

The Fisher information matrix summarizes the amount of information in a set of data relative to the quantities of interest. There are many applications of the information matrix in statistical modeling, system identification and parameter…

Computation · Statistics 2014-05-08 Xumeng Cao

The concept of Fisher information can be useful even in cases where the probability distributions of interest are not absolutely continuous with respect to the natural reference measure on the underlying space. Practical examples where this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Jeremie Houssineau , Ajay Jasra , Sumeetpal S. Singh

Electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) spectroscopy has been used as a sensitive sensor in quantum metrology applications. The sensitivity of a sensor strongly depends on the measurement precision of EIT spectrum. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Pin-Ju Tsai , Lun-Ping Yuan , Ying-Cheng Chen

Reconstruction techniques are commonly used in cosmology to reduce complicated nonlinear behaviours to a more tractable linearized system. We study a new reconstruction technique that uses the Moving-Mesh algorithm to estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Qiaoyin Pan , Ue-Li Pen , Derek Inman , Hao-Ran Yu

The electronic local density of states of solids, if normalized correctly, represents the probability density that the electron at a specific position has a particular energy. Because this probability density can vary in space in disordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Lucas A. Oliveira , Wei Chen

Modern radio and multi-instrument astrophysical datasets are increasingly assembled from surveys with different sensitivities and selection effects. In such heterogeneous datasets, published measurement uncertainties are often incomplete,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Marko Imbrišak , Krešimir Tisanić

The problem how to approximately determine the absolute value of the Fisher information measure for a general parametric probabilistic system is considered. Having available the first and second moment of the system output in a parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Manuel Stein , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

We present a framework for analyzing weak gravitational lensing survey data, including lensing and source-density observables, plus spectroscopic redshift calibration data. All two-point observables are predicted in terms of parameters of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Gary M. Bernstein

We show that an inequality recently proved by Kosaki and Yanagi-Furuichi-Kuriyama [arXiv:quant-ph/0501152] has a natural geometric interpretation in terms of monotone metrics associated to Wigner-Yanase-Dyson information. Moreover we give a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 P. Gibilisco , T. Isola