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Aspects of geodesical motion with Fisher-Rao metric: classical and quantum

Authors :
Ciaglia, Florio M.
Di Cosmo, Fabio
Felice, Domenico
Mancini, Stefano
Marmo, Giuseppe
Pérez-Pardo, Juan Manuel
Source :
Open Systems & Information Dynamics,Vol. 25, No. 1 (2018) 1850005 (14 pages)
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to exploit the geometric structure of Quantum Mechanics and of statistical manifolds to study the qualitative effect that the quantum properties have in the statistical description of a system. We show that the end points of geodesics in the classical setting coincide with the probability distributions that minimise Shannon's Entropy, i.e. with distributions of zero dispersion. In the quantum setting this happens only for particular initial conditions, which in turn correspond to classical submanifolds. This result can be interpreted as a geometric manifestation of the uncertainty principle.<br />Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Open Systems & Information Dynamics,Vol. 25, No. 1 (2018) 1850005 (14 pages)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1608.06105
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1142/S1230161218500051