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We derive general upper bounds to pointwise mutual information in terms of stochastic Fisher information and show these bounds average to known results in the literature for bounds to mutual information in terms of Fisher information. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Pedro B. Melo

Recent advancements have revealed new links between information geometry and classical stochastic thermodynamics, particularly through the Fisher information (FI) with respect to time. Recognizing the non-uniqueness of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , John Goold

Variance and Fisher information are ingredients of the Cramer-Rao inequality. We regard Fisher information as a Riemannian metric on a quantum statistical manifold and choose monotonicity under coarse graining as the fundamental property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Denes Petz

In quantum information theory, Fisher Information is a natural metric on the space of perturbations to a density matrix, defined by calculating the relative entropy with the unperturbed state at quadratic order in perturbations. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Nima Lashkari , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We introduce a positive Hermitian operator, the Fisher operator, and use it to examine a measurement process incorporating unitary dynamics and complete measurements. We develop the idea of information complement, the minimization of which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-20 Gabriel A. Durkin

We develop a general method to study the Fisher information distance in central limit theorem for nonlinear statistics. We first construct completely new representations for the score function. We then use these representations to derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Nguyen Tien Dung

Motivated by the information bound for the asymptotic variance of M-estimates for scale, we define Fisher information of scale of any distribution function F on the real line as a suitable supremum. In addition, we enforce equivariance by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Peter Ruckdeschel , Helmut Rieder

Fisher-information inequalities have recently been used as operational witnesses of nonclassical metrological behavior, but their physical meaning is often tied to a particular narrative, such as, segmented dynamics or discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jeongho Bang , Su-Yong Lee

We derive the quantum Fisher information for entropy estimation in a Gibbs state and show that it equals the inverse of the heat capacity, which is dual to the temperature Fisher information given by the heat capacity divided by the square…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Francis J. Headley

We prove an extended convexity for quantum Fisher information of a mixed state with a given convex decomposition. This convexity introduces a bound which has two parts: i. classical part associated to the Fisher information of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani

We present a thermodynamic formulation for scale-invariant systems based on the minimization with constraints of Fisher's information measure. In such a way a clear analogy between these systems's thermal properties and those of gases and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Hernando , C. Vesperinas , A. Plastino

The quantum Fisher information, the quantum analogue of the classical Fisher information, is a central quantity in quantum metrology and quantum sensing due to its connection to parameter estimation and fidelity susceptibility. Using…

We show that both the classical as well as the quantum definitions of the Fisher information faithfully identify resourceful quantum states in general quantum resource theories, in the sense that they can always distinguish between states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Kok Chuan Tan , Varun Narasimhachar , Bartosz Regula

Many real-world tasks include some kind of parameter estimation, i.e., determination of a parameter encoded in a probability distribution. Often, such probability distributions arise from stochastic processes. For a stationary stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Marco Radaelli , Gabriel T. Landi , Kavan Modi , Felix C. Binder

Using a representation of the score function by means of the divergence operator we exhibit a sufficient condition, in terms of the negative moments of the norm of the Malliavin derivative, under which convergence in Fisher information to…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Ivan Nourdin , David Nualart

The basic properties of the Fisher information allow to reveal the statistical meaning of classical inequalities between mean functions. The properties applied to scale mixtures of Gaussian distributions lead to a new mean function of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Abram M. Kagan , Paul J. Smith

We consider torsion in parameter manifolds that arises via conformal transformations of the Fisher information metric, and define it for information geometry of a wide class of physical systems. The torsion can be used to differentiate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

We present a method to generate probability distributions that correspond to metrics obeying partial differential equations generated by extremizing a functional $J[g^{\mu\nu}(\theta^i)]$, where $g^{\mu\nu}(\theta^i)$ is the Fisher metric.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xavier Calmet , Jacques Calmet

Famously, the quantum Fisher information -- the maximum Fisher information over all physical measurements -- is additive for independent copies of a system and the optimal measurement acts locally. We are left to wonder: does the same hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Javier Navarro , Simon Morelli , Mikel Sanz , Mohammad Mehboudi

We study here the difference between quantum statistical treatments and semi-classical ones, using as the main research tool a semi-classical, shift-invariant Fisher information measure built up with Husimi distributions. Its semi-classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Pennini , A. Plastino , G. L. Ferri