Monotone Riemannian metrics on density matrices with non-monotone scalar curvature

Details Monotone Riemannian metrics on density matrices with non-monotone scalar curvature Monotone Riemannian metrics on density matrices with non-monotone scalar curvature

2003-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0305060v1

Journal of Mathematical Physics, 44, 3675-3688, 2003.

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Mathematical Physics

15 pages, to be published in Journal of Mathematical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1592874

The theory of monotone Riemannian metrics on the state space of a quantum system was established by Denes Petz in 1996. In a recent paper he argued that the scalar curvature of a statistically relevant - monotone - metric can be interpreted as an average statistical uncertainty. The present paper contributes to this subject. It is reasonable to expect that states which are more mixed are less distinguishable than those which are less mixed. The manifestation of this behavior could be that for such a metric the scalar curvature has a maximum at the maximally mixed state. We show that not every monotone metric fulfils this expectation, some of them behave in a very different way. A mathematical condition is given for monotone Riemannian metrics to have a local minimum at the maximally mixed state and examples are given for such metrics.

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