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We introduce a new class of Wasserstein-type distances specifically designed to tackle questions concerning stability and convergence to equilibria for kinetic equations. Thanks to these new distances, we improve some classical estimates by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Mikaela Iacobelli

We compare bipartite (Euclidean) matching problems in classical and quantum mechanics. The quantum case is treated in terms of a quantum version of the Wasserstein distance introduced in [F. Golse, C. Mouhot, T. Paul, Commun. Math. Phys.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 François Golse , Emanuele Caglioti , Thierry Paul

The convergence rate in Wasserstein distance is estimated for the empirical measures of symmetric semilinear SPDEs. Unlike in the finite-dimensional case that the convergence is of algebraic order in time, in the present situation the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Feng-Yu Wang

In this paper we introduce a Wasserstein-type distance on the set of Gaussian mixture models. This distance is defined by restricting the set of possible coupling measures in the optimal transport problem to Gaussian mixture models. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Julie Delon , Agnes Desolneux

Assume that an agent models a financial asset through a measure Q with the goal to price / hedge some derivative or optimize some expected utility. Even if the model Q is chosen in the most skilful and sophisticated way, she is left with…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-09-24 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Daniel Bartl , Mathias Beiglböck , Manu Eder

Quantifying how far the output of a learning algorithm is from its target is an essential task in machine learning. However, in quantum settings, the loss landscapes of commonly used distance metrics often produce undesirable outcomes such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Bobak Toussi Kiani , Giacomo De Palma , Milad Marvian , Zi-Wen Liu , Seth Lloyd

Peccati, Sole, Taqqu, and Utzet recently combined Stein's method and Malliavin calculus to obtain a bound for the Wasserstein distance of a Poisson functional and a Gaussian random variable. Convergence in the Wasserstein distance always…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Matthias Schulte

This text is a set of lecture notes for a 4.5-hour course given at the Erd\"os Center (R\'enyi Institute, Budapest) during the Summer School "Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures" (September 19th-23rd, 2023). Lecture I introduces the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 François Golse

The sliced Wasserstein distance as well as its variants have been widely considered in comparing probability measures defined on $\mathbb R^d$. Here we derive the notion of sliced Wasserstein distance for measures on an infinite dimensional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Ruiyu Han

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

Given a unitary transformation, what is the size of the smallest quantum circuit that implements it? This quantity, known as the quantum circuit complexity, is a fundamental property of quantum evolutions that has widespread applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lu Li , Kaifeng Bu , Dax Enshan Koh , Arthur Jaffe , Seth Lloyd

Probability distributions play a central role in quantum mechanics, and even more so in quantum optics with its rich diversity of theoretically conceivable and experimentally accessible quantum states of light. Quantifiers that compare two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Soumyabrata Paul , V. Balakrishnan , S. Ramanan , S. Lakshmibala

We study aspects of the Wasserstein distance in the context of self-similar measures. Computing this distance between two measures involves minimising certain moment integrals over the space of \emph{couplings}, which are measures on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Jonathan M. Fraser

In this note, we give a simple derivation of the formula obtained in Dowson and Landau (1982), Olkin and Pukelsheim (1982) and Givens and Shortt (1984) for the quadratic Wasserstein distance between two Gaussian distributions on $\R^d$ with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Aurélien Alfonsi , Benjamin Jourdain

Wasserstein distances provide a metric on a space of probability measures. We consider the space $\Omega$ of all probability measures on the finite set $\chi = \{1, \dots ,n\}$ where $n$ is a positive integer. 1-Wasserstein distance,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Andrew Frohmader , Hans Volkmer

Persistence diagrams are a useful tool from topological data analysis which can be used to provide a concise description of a filtered topological space. What makes them even more useful in practice is that they come with a notion of a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Jesse J. Berwald , Joel M. Gottlieb , Elizabeth Munch

We introduce a new semi-relativistic quantum operator for the length of the worldline a particle traces out as it moves. In this article the operator is constructed in a heuristic way and some of its elementary properties are explored. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Daniel Katz

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

The Quasi Manhattan Wasserstein Distance (QMWD) is a metric designed to quantify the dissimilarity between two matrices by combining elements of the Wasserstein Distance with specific transformations. It offers improved time and space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Evan Unit Lim

Distinguishing quantum states with minimal sampling overhead is of fundamental importance to teach quantum data to an algorithm. Recently, the quantum Wasserstein distance emerged from the theory of quantum optimal transport as a promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Gonzalo Camacho , Benedikt Fauseweh