Physicality of evolution and statistical contractivity are equivalent notions of maps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16107v2
• Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:25:21 GMT
• Title: Physicality of evolution and statistical contractivity are equivalent notions of maps
• Authors: Matteo Scandi, Paolo Abiuso, Dario De Santis, Jacopo Surace,
• Abstract summary: We prove that among all possible linear maps, the only ones that contract the Fisher information are exactly the physical ones. This result shows that, contrary to the common opinion, there is no fundamental hierarchy between physical maps and canonical statistical quantifiers.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Statistical quantifiers are generically required to contract under physical evolutions, following the intuition that information should be lost under noisy transformations. This principle is very relevant in statistics, and it even allows to derive uniqueness results based on it: by imposing their contractivity under any physical maps, the Chentsov-Petz theorem singles out a unique family of metrics on the space of probability distributions (or density matrices) called the Fisher information metrics. This result might suggest that statistical quantifiers are a derived concept, as their very definition is based on physical maps. The aim of this work is to disprove this belief. Indeed, we present a result dual to the Chentsov-Petz theorem, proving that among all possible linear maps, the only ones that contract the Fisher information are exactly the physical ones. This result shows that, contrary to the common opinion, there is no fundamental hierarchy between physical maps and canonical statistical quantifiers, as either of them can be defined in terms of the other.

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