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arXiv:1703.05231 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Fisher metric, geometric entanglement, and spin networks

Goffredo Chirco, Fabio M. Mele, Daniele Oriti, Patrizia Vitale

Published Feb 28, 2018• 23 citations
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Abstract

Starting from recent results on the geometric formulation of quantum mechanics, we propose a new information geometric characterization of entanglement for spin network states in the context of quantum gravity. For the simple case of a single-link fixed graph (Wilson line), we detail the construction of a Riemannian Fisher metric tensor and a symplectic structure on the graph Hilbert space, showing how these encode the whole information about separability and entanglement. In particular, the Fisher metric defines an entanglement monotone which provides a notion of distance among states in the Hilbert space. In the maximally entangled gauge-invariant case, the entanglement monotone is proportional to a power of the area of the surface dual to the link thus supporting a connection between entanglement and the (simplicial) geometric properties of spin network states. We further extend such analysis to the study of nonlocal correlations between two nonadjacent regions of a generic spin network graph characterized by the bipartite unfolding of an intertwiner state. Our analysis confirms the interpretation of spin network bonds as a result of entanglement and to regard the same spin network graph as an information graph, whose connectivity encodes, both at the local and nonlocal level, the quantum correlations among its parts. This gives a further connection between entanglement and geometry.

DOI
10.1103/physrevd.97.046015

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Quantum entanglement is a fundamental resource in quantum information theory, yet its general characterization and quantification remain challenging, especially in multipartite systems. In this work we investigate entanglement from a geometric perspective, focusing on the Riemannian structure induced by the Fubini--Study metric on the projective Hilbert space of multi-qubit quantum states. By exploiting the local-unitary invariance of this metric, we derive the entanglement distance (ED), a geometric measure that quantifies entanglement as an obstruction to locally minimizing the sum of squared Fubini--Study distances generated by local operations. We analyze the properties of ED for pure multi-qubit states and discuss its behavior under local operations and classical communication. In particular, we show that ED reproduces established entanglement measures in well-defined and restricted settings. For pure states of two qubits, ED reduces to an exact monotone function of the concurrence and, independently, to an explicit monotone function of the entropy of entanglement. These results provide a clear geometric interpretation of standard bipartite entanglement measures within the present framework, while highlighting the limitations of such correspondences beyond the two-qubit case.
In the context of quantum gravity, we clarify entanglement calculations on spin networks: we distinguish the gauge-invariant entanglement between intertwiners located at the nodes and the entanglement between spin states located on the network's links. We compute explicitly these two notions of entanglement between neighboring nodes and show that they are always related to the typical ln(2j+1)\mathrm{ln}(2j+1)ln(2j+1) term depending on the spin jjj living on the link between them. This ln(2j+1)\mathrm{ln}(2j+1)ln(2j+1) contribution comes from looking at nongauge-invariant states; thus we interpret it as gauge breaking and unphysical. In particular, this confirms that pure spin network basis states do not carry any physical entanglement, so that true entanglement and correlations in loop quantum gravity comes from spin or intertwiner superpositions.
Entanglement for pure bipartite states is most commonly quantified in a state-by-state manner to each pure state of a bipartite system a scalar quantity, such as the von Neumann entropy of a reduced density matrix. This provides a precise local characterization of how entangled a given state is. At the same time, this local description naturally invites a set of complementary, more global questions about the structure of the space of pure states: How abundant are the states with a given amount of entanglement within the full state space? Do the manifolds of constant entanglement exhibit distinct geometric regimes? These questions shift the focus from assigning an entanglement value to a single state to understanding the global organization and geometry of entanglement across the entire manifold of pure states. In this work, we develop a geometric framework in which these questions become natural. We regard the projective Hilbert space of pure states, endowed with the Fubini-Study metric, as a Riemannian manifold and promote bipartite entanglement to a macroscopic functional on this manifold. Its level sets stratify the space of pure states into hypersurfaces of constant entanglement, and we define a geometric entanglement entropy as the log-volume of these hypersurfaces, weighted by the Fubini-Study gradient of entanglement. This quantity plays the role of a microcanonical entropy in entanglement space: it measures the degeneracy of a given entanglement value in the natural quantum geometry. The framework is illustrated first in the simplest case of a single spin-1/2 and then for bipartite entanglement of spin systems, including a two-qubit example where explicit calculations can be carried out, along with a sketch of the extension to spin chains.
We provide an explicit connection between the differential generation of entan-glement entropy in a tensor network representation of the ground states of two field theories, and a geometric description of these states based on the Fisher information metric. We show how the geometrical description remains invariant despite there is an irreducible gauge freedom in the definition of the tensor network. The results might help to understand how spacetimes may emerge from distributions of quantum states, or more concretely, from the structure of the quantum entanglement concomitant to those distributions.
Abstract We introduce a geometric framework for representing quantum entanglementthrough reduced entanglement coordinates derived from the Schmidt decompo-sition. For pure two-qubit states, the framework yields an entanglement conein which separability corresponds to geometric collapse to the cone apex. Thisconstruction extends naturally to higher-rank bipartitions through Schmidt-simplex geometries associated with Schmidt-rank reduction. For multipartitesystems, we introduce entanglement-graph coordinates that use pairwise bipar-tite reductions as geometric probes of global quantum states. The resultingrepresentation defines a local-unitary-invariant reduced geometry whose dimen-sion scales quadratically with subsystem number, compared with the exponentialscaling of the underlying pure-state space. Although not a complete invariantof multipartite entanglement, the graph geometry preserves important rela-tional and connectivity structure while remaining computationally tractable.Building on this representation, we develop a geometric interpretation of vari-ational quantum dynamics in which optimization trajectories evolve throughstructured regions of entanglement-graph space. We introduce Hamiltonian-selected entanglement-graph sectors, establish exact and perturbative sectorconstructions, derive local graph-distance energy relations near nondegenerateoptima, and develop learned geometric diagnostics for variational optimization.Numerical experiments on molecular and spin-chain Hamiltonians support thehypothesis that low-energy states concentrate near Hamiltonian-dependent graphsectors and demonstrate predictive information in the resulting geometric rep-resentations. Together, these results provide a unified geometric framework foranalyzing entanglement structure, quantum dynamics, and variational quantumoptimization.
Bell-network states are loop-quantum-gravity states that glue quantum polyhedra with entanglement. We present an algorithm and a code that evaluates the reduced density matrix of a Bell-network state and computes its entanglement entropy. In particular, we use our code for simple graphs to study properties of Bell-network states and to show that they are nontypical in the Hilbert space. Moreover, we investigate analytically Bell-network states on arbitrary finite graphs. We develop methods to compute the R\'enyi entropy of order p for a restriction of the state to an arbitrary region. In the uniform large-spin regime, we determine bounds on the entanglement entropy and show that it obeys an area law. Finally, we discuss the implications of our results for correlations of geometric observables.