How a quantum state responds to small parameter changes underlies state distinguishability, many-body response, and metrological sensitivity. The Pauli probability spectrum provides a natural description of many-body quantum states, but it is not evident how much of this response survives in the corresponding classical distribution. Here we show that, for pure states, the complete labeled Pauli distribution retains the full local metric of the pure-state manifold, reproducing the quantum Fisher metric up to a fixed normalization. This correspondence has a direct measurement realization: preparing a state together with its complex conjugate and performing pairwise Bell measurements between corresponding degrees of freedom converts the quantum response into an ordinary classical distribution without losing any of the sensitivity available in the two inputs. The readout is fixed, factorizes into local pairwise measurements even for strongly entangled many-body states, and preserves the response along all parameter directions simultaneously. We trace this correspondence to the reality of the underlying operator amplitudes and show that the same mechanism extends beyond qubits. When the correspondence fails, we identify explicitly where the missing information resides: part of the response can remain hidden in phases for identical-copy and complex-coordinate readouts, while mixed states develop transverse operator-space motion that is invisible to the Bell probabilities. These results provide a direct link between Pauli/Bell statistics, many-body response, nonstabilizerness, and quantum geometry.
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26 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Substantially revised and reorganized presentation; the main results and conclusions are unchanged. The revision clarifies the physical interpretation, the role of identical copies and real-amplitude readouts, the mixed-state information-loss mechanism, limitations, and relation to previous work
How a quantum state responds to small parameter changes underlies state distinguishability, many-body response, and metrological sensitivity. The Pauli probability spectrum provides a natural description of many-body quantum states, but it is not evident how much of this response survives in the corresponding classical distribution. Here we show that, for pure states, the complete labeled Pauli distribution retains the full local metric of the pure-state manifold, reproducing the quantum Fisher metric up to a fixed normalization. This correspondence has a direct measurement realization: preparing a state together with its complex conjugate and performing pairwise Bell measurements between corresponding degrees of freedom converts the quantum response into an ordinary classical distribution without losing any of the sensitivity available in the two inputs. The readout is fixed, factorizes into local pairwise measurements even for strongly entangled many-body states, and preserves the response along all parameter directions simultaneously. We trace this correspondence to the reality of the underlying operator amplitudes and show that the same mechanism extends beyond qubits. When the correspondence fails, we identify explicitly where the missing information resides: part of the response can remain hidden in phases for identical-copy and complex-coordinate readouts, while mixed states develop transverse operator-space motion that is invisible to the Bell probabilities. These results provide a direct link between Pauli/Bell statistics, many-body response, nonstabilizerness, and quantum geometry.
Fisher information appears in quantum theory in two mathematically distinct settings: as a classical probability functional in variational reconstructions of Schrodinger dynamics and as the quantum Fisher metric of parameterized density operators. Here we examine how far these roles can be connected without identifying the two objects. Starting from a Hamilton-Jacobi ensemble action, we recover the Fisher term that generates the quantum potential and isolate its contribution to the kinetic-energy expectation. We then analyze the quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) of bipartite states. For any pure two-qubit state, the optimized magnitude of the off-diagonal QFIM element for normalized local generators equals the concurrence, while a collective phase generator yields FQ = 4 C^2. Extending the optimized pure-state quantity by a convex roof gives an exact identity with Wootters concurrence for arbitrary mixed two-qubit states. This differs from evaluating the QFIM directly on a mixed density operator: for Werner states the raw optimized cross-QFIM is 2 p^2/(1 + p) and remains nonzero inside the separable region. The gap between the raw and convex-roof quantities therefore isolates, for this family, correlation geometry not captured by entanglement. Finally, in a two-path interferometer with a which-way marker, the optimal phase Fisher information available from local output statistics is I_phi^opt = V^2. These results place probability-gradient energy, bipartite correlation geometry, entanglement, and decoherence-induced loss of local phase sensitivity in a common mathematical setting while preserving the distinctions between classical Fisher information, QFIM geometry, Bell nonlocality, and global phase quantization.
This paper provides a systematic study of the operational idea that a quantum “state” is only defined up to what can be distinguished by a chosen family of observables. Concretely, any von Neumann algebra of observables M induces an equivalence relation on pure and mixed states by declaring two preparations indiscernible when they give identical statistics for every observable in M. The corresponding quotient, the Holevo space associated with M, is the effective (relational) state space of the experiment, explicitly dependent on the observer’s available measurements. We analyse the resulting geometry and topology of these quotients, and prove a context-complete classical representation theorem: for every von Neumann algebra M there is a canonical lift a↦â to bounded continuous functions on the Holevo space, reproducing expectation values pointwise. In the commutative case this reduces to ordinary probability theory on the joint spectrum. The framework is illustrated in explicit examples, including position measurements of a free particle and polarisation measurements in the qubit, Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR), and Bell settings. In particular, in the EPR scenario Charlie’s joint observable defines a simplex of joint outcome distributions, whereas the Alice/Bob marginal viewpoint collapses the effective description to a lower-dimensional space by “forgetting” the correlation parameter. We show that by varying the polariser settings, the indiscernibility classes become conjugated (and generically reshuffled), and different settings are typically incompatible at the level of observable algebras.
Abstract Our purpose here is to draw attention to an interesting relationship that can be shown to hold between (a) information geometry, and (b) quantum geometry. By ‘information geometry’, we mean the natural geometry associated with families of probability distributions. This is a subject that goes back more than half a century to the pioneering work of Rao (1945), who showed that the Fisher information matrix associated with a parametrised family of probability dis tributions gives rise to a natural Riemannian metric on the parameter space. This then allows one to speak in a precise way of the ‘distance’ between two probability distributions, an idea that turns out to be useful in problems of statistical inference. An extensive literature has thus developed, following this line of enquiry, on applications of differential geometry to statistics (see, e.g., Amari (1985), Barndorff-Nielsen et al. (1986), Murray and Rice (1993)). By ‘quantum geometry’, on the other hand, we mean the geometry of the manifold of states associated with a given quantum mechanical system. In particular, we consider the manifold of ‘pure’ states associated with a given complex Hilbert space. This is the space of ‘rays’ through the origin in the Hilbert space, which has the structure of a complex projective space. It is known that the usual rules of quantum mechanics allow one to construct a natural metric on this space, namely the Fubini-Study metric, the specification of which is equivalent to all the familiar structure associated with ordinary quantum mechanics.
Informationally complete measurements form the foundation of universal quantum state reconstruction, while quantum parameter estimation is based on the local structure of the manifold of quantum states. Here we establish a general link between these two aspects, in the context of a single informationally complete measurement, by employing a suitably adapted operator frame theory. In particular, we bound the ratio between the classical and quantum Fisher information in terms of the spectral decomposition of the associated frame operator, and connect these bounds to the optimal and least optimal directions for parameter encoding. The geometric and operational characterization of information extraction thus obtained reveals the fundamental tradeoff imposed by informational completeness on local quantum parameter estimation.
We develop an information-geometric framework for describing quantum state-update processes associated with measurement and statistical distinguishability. The approach is based on the quantum relative entropy and the quantum Fisher information metric, which together induce a natural Riemannian geometry on the manifold of quantum states. Using the second-order expansion of relative entropy, we show how the Fisher metric governs the local structure of distinguishability between nearby states and defines a corresponding thermodynamic length. This geometric structure provides an effective description of finite quantum state transitions in terms of fluctuation geometry and information-space distance. The formalism is applied to thermal two-level systems and harmonic oscillator states, illustrating how the Fisher metric encodes susceptibilities, fluctuations, and geometric transition costs. We also discuss the relation between thermodynamic length, dissipation bounds, and optimal paths in state space. Within this framework, wave function collapse is interpreted not as a microscopic dynamical mechanism, but as an effective state-update process that admits a geometric characterization in the manifold of density operators. The resulting perspective unifies concepts from quantum information theory, thermodynamics, and differential geometry within a common operational framework based on statistical distinguishability. Possible connections with quantum speed limits, entanglement geometry, and holographic relations between relative entropy and gravitational dynamics are briefly discussed.
For finite-dimensional binary systems and their bipartite composites, this paper establishes a conditional representation chain from a physical–observation dual-axis structure to quantum Bell correlations. An observational fact is jointly generated by a complete physical state and a complete observation state. Additivity and associativity of coherent responses, two-sided cancellation, and a full circle group of scalar phase transport select C among finite-dimensional unital associative real response algebras. Reversible mixing then determines a Hermitian metric up to an overall positive factor. Normalized two-channel responses form S3, and quotienting by their common phase yields the rank-one observation-event space and, with an outcome label, the pure observation fiber S3/U(1)=CP1≃S2. The universal bilinear composite of two independent systems is C4. Probabilities are first assigned within complete measurement contexts. Events with the same response filter are operationally interchangeable, so the local assignments glue along the observation axis into a positive orthogonally additive measure on the full projection lattice. Gleason's theorem then gives the unique trace representation p(P∣x)=Tr(ρxP), while composite marginal consistency returns the trace pairing to each local binary fiber. Every two-qubit correlation therefore has the universal form Eρ(a,b)=aTTρb. Joint rotational invariance and perfect equal-axis anticorrelation uniquely fix Tρ=−I3, producing the singlet cosine law E=−a⋅b=−cosθ. Finally, the local commutators in the squared CHSH operator confine all realizable correlations to 22. Fine-measurement completeness supplies saturating directions, while sharp preparation and reversible covariance make the singlet accessible. Thus CP1, the Born pairing, the cosine correlation law, and the Tsirelson bound arise within one chain linking phase structure, independent composition, and cross-context probability consistency.