Wigner-Yanase information on quantum state space:the geometric approach

In the search of appropriate riemannian metrics on quantum state space the concept of statistical monotonicity, or contraction under coarse graining, has been proposed by Chentsov. The metrics with this property have been classified by Petz. All the elements of this family of geometries can be seen as quantum analogues of Fisher information. Although there exists a number of general theorems sheding light on this subject, many natural questions, also stemming from applications, are still open. In this paper we discuss a particular member of the family, the Wigner-Yanase information. Using a well-known approach that mimics the classical pull-back approach to Fisher information, we are able to give explicit formulae for the geodesic distance, the geodesic path, the sectional and scalar curvatures associated to Wigner-Yanase information. Moreover we show that this is the only monotone metric for which such an approach is possible

On the monotonicity of scalar curvature in classical and quantum information geometry

We study the statistical monotonicity of the scalar curvature for the alpha-geometries on the simplex of probability vectors. From the results obtained and from numerical data we are led to some conjectures about quantum alpha-geometries and Wigner-Yanase-Dyson information. Finally we show that this last conjecture implies the truth of the Petz conjecture about the monotonicity of the scalar curvature of the Bogoliubov-Kubo-Mori monotone metric.Comment: 20 pages, 2 .eps figures; (v2) section 2 rewritten, typos correcte

On the characterisation of paired monotone metrics

Hasegawa and Petz introduced the notion of dual statistically monotone metrics. They also gave a characterisation theorem showing that Wigner-Yanase-Dyson metrics are the only members of the dual family. In this paper we show that the characterisation theorem holds true under more general hypotheses.Comment: 12 pages, to appear on Ann. Inst. Stat. Math.; v2: changes made to conform to accepted version, title changed as wel

A volume inequality for quantum Fisher information and the uncertainty principle

Let $A_1,...,A_N$ be complex self-adjoint matrices and let $\rho$ be a density matrix. The Robertson uncertainty principle $$det(Cov_\rho(A_h,A_j)) \geq det(- \frac{i}{2} Tr(\rho [A_h,A_j]))$$ gives a bound for the quantum generalized covariance in terms of the commutators $[A_h,A_j]$. The right side matrix is antisymmetric and therefore the bound is trivial (equal to zero) in the odd case $N=2m+1$. Let $f$ be an arbitrary normalized symmetric operator monotone function and let $_{\rho,f}$ be the associated quantum Fisher information. In this paper we conjecture the inequality $$det (Cov_\rho(A_h,A_j)) \geq det (\frac{f(0)}{2} _{\rho,f})$$ that gives a non-trivial bound for any natural number $N$ using the commutators $i[\rho, A_h]$. The inequality has been proved in the cases $N=1,2$ by the joint efforts of many authors. In this paper we prove the case N=3 for real matrices

Fisher information and means: some questions in the classical and quantum settings

The algebraic and geometric properties of Fisher Information, its relations with the theory of operator means have been very active fields in the last decades. In this paper I try to shed some light on recent results and to address some open questions which could in principle give some new directions to the field

A dynamical uncertainty principle in von Neumann algebras by operator monotone functions

Suppose that A(1),..., A(N) are observables (selfadjoint matrices) and rho is a state (density matrix). In this case the standard uncertainty principle, proved by Robertson, gives a bound for the quantum generalized variance, namely for det{Cov(rho) (A(j), A(k) )}, using the commutators [A(j), A(k)]; this bound is trivial when N is odd. Recently a different inequality of Robertson-type has been proved by the authors with the help of the theory of operator monotone functions. In this case the bound makes use of the commutators [rho, A(j)] and is non-trivial for any N. In the present paper we generalize this new result to the von Neumann algebra case. Nevertheless the proof appears to simplify all the existing ones

A characterisation of Wigner-Yanase skew information among statistically monotone metrics

Let M-n = M-n(C) be the space of n x n complex matrices endowed with the Hilbert-Schmidt scalar product, let S-n be the unit sphere of M-n and let D-n subset of M-n be the space of strictly positive density matrices. We show that the scalar product over D-n introduced by Gibilisco and Isola(3) (that is the scalar product induced by the map D-n There Exists rho --> rootrho is an element of S-n) coincides with the Wigner-Yanase monotone metric

Fisher information and Stam inequality on a finite group

We prove a discrete version of the Stam inequality for random variables taking values on a finite group

Volume of the quantum mechanical state space

The volume of the quantum mechanical state space over $n$-dimensional real, complex and quaternionic Hilbert-spaces with respect to the canonical Euclidean measure is computed, and explicit formulas are presented for the expected value of the determinant in the general setting too. The case when the state space is endowed with a monotone metric or a pull-back metric is considered too, we give formulas to compute the volume of the state space with respect to the given Riemannian metric. We present the volume of the space of qubits with respect to various monotone metrics. It turns out that the volume of the space of qubits can be infinite too. We characterize those monotone metrics which generates infinite volume.Comment: 17 page