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The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a fundamental quantity of interest in many areas from quantum metrology to quantum information theory. It can in particular be used as a witness to establish the degree of multi-particle entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Aniket Rath , Cyril Branciard , Anna Minguzzi , Benoît Vermersch

Among the monotone metrics on the (n^{2} - 1)-dimensional convex set of n x n density matrices, as Petz and Sudar have recently elaborated, there are a minimal (Bures) and a maximal one. We examine the proposition that it is physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul B. Slater

The high-dimensional parameter space of deep neural networks -- the neuromanifold -- is endowed with a unique metric tensor defined by the Fisher information. Reliable and scalable computation of this metric tensor is valuable for theorists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ke Sun

We provide in a unified way quantitative forms of strong convergence results for numerous iterative procedures which satisfy a general type of Fejer monotonicity where the convergence uses the compactness of the underlying set. These…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Ulrick Kohlenbach , Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae

The notion of quasi-Fej\'er monotonicity has proven to be an efficient tool to simplify and unify the convergence analysis of various algorithms arising in applied nonlinear analysis. In this paper, we extend this notion in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Patrick L. Combettes , Bang C. Vu

Quantum Fisher information matrices (QFIMs) are fundamental to estimation theory: they encode the ultimate limit for the sensitivity with which a set of parameters can be estimated using a given probe. Since the limit invokes the inverse of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Aaron Z. Goldberg , José L. Romero , Ángel S. Sanz , Luis L. Sánchez-Soto

Structured optical beams possess rich spatial features that are commonly characterized using entropic measures of field complexity. However, such measures do not directly quantify the operational usefulness of optical structure for…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 J. Sumaya-Martinez , J. Mulia-Rodriguez

Local information objectivity, that local, independent observers can infer the same information about a model upon exchange of independently acquired experimental data, is fundamental to science. It is mathematically encoded via Cencov's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Per Berglund , Andrew Geraci , Tristan Hubsch , David Mattingly , Djordje Minic

We show how Fisher's information already known particular character as the fundamental information geometric object which plays the role of a metric tensor for a statistical differential manifold, can be derived in a relatively easy manner…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Masi

The subject is the overview of the use of quasi-entropy in finite dimensional spaces. Matrix monotone functions and relative modular operators are used. The origin is the relative entropy and the f-divergence, monotone metrics, covariance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Denes Petz

The quantum Fisher information matrix is a central object in multiparameter quantum estimation theory. It is usually challenging to obtain analytical expressions for it because most calculation methods rely on the diagonalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Lukas J. Fiderer , Tommaso Tufarelli , Samanta Piano , Gerardo Adesso

So far, there have been plenty of literatures on the metric in the space of probability distributions and quantum states. As for channels, however, only a little had been known. In this paper, we impose monotonicity by concatenation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-03 Keiji Matsumoto

Random fields are useful mathematical objects in the characterization of non-deterministic complex systems. A fundamental issue in the evolution of dynamical systems is how intrinsic properties of such structures change in time. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Alexandre L. M. Levada

A simple proof is given for the monotonicity of entropy and Fisher information associated to sums of i.i.d. random variables. The proof relies on a characterization of maximal correlation for partial sums due to Dembo, Kagan and Shepp.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Thomas A. Courtade

The canonical correlation or Kubo-Mori scalar product on the state space of a finite quantum system is a natural generalization of the classical Fisher metric. This metric is induced by the von Neumann entropy or the relative entropy of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Attila Andai

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

We examine a family of intrinsic performance measures in terms of probability distributions that generalize Hellinger distance and Fisher information. They are applied to quantum metrology to assess the uncertainty in the detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Alfredo Luis , Alfonso Rodil

Fisher information is a lower bound on the uncertainty in the statistical estimation of classical and quantum mechanical parameters. While some deterministic dynamical systems are not subject to random fluctuations, they do still have a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Mohamed Sahbani , Swetamber Das , Jason R. Green

Following the breakthrough work of Guillen and Silvestre \cite{GS24}, that shows that the Fisher information is monotonically decreasing for solutions to the homogeneous Landau equation, we study, for the same equation, the monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 F. -U. Caja-Lopez , M. G. Delgadino , M. -P. Gualdani , M. Taskovic

We provide an experimentally measurable local gauge $U(1)$ invariant Fubini-Study (FS) metric for mixed states. Like the FS metric for pure states, it also captures only the quantum part of the uncertainty in the evolution Hamiltonian. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Debasis Mondal