Quantum Wasserstein distance and its relation to several types of fidelities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14523v5
• Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:23:56 GMT
• Title: Quantum Wasserstein distance and its relation to several types of fidelities
• Authors: Géza Tóth, József Pitrik,
• Abstract summary: We consider several definitions of the quantum Wasserstein distance based on an optimization over general bipartite quantum states with given marginals.<n>We show that the Uhlmann-Jozsa quantum fidelity can also be written as an optimization over separable states with given marginals.
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• Abstract: We consider several definitions of the quantum Wasserstein distance based on an optimization over general bipartite quantum states with given marginals. Then, we examine the quantities obtained after the optimization is carried out over bipartite separable states instead. We prove that several of these quantities are equal to each other. Thus, we connect several approaches in the literature. We prove the triangle inequality for some of these quantities for the case of one of the three states being pure. As a byproduct, we show that the Uhlmann-Jozsa quantum fidelity can also be written as an optimization over separable states with given marginals. We use this to prove that some of these quantities equal the Uhlmann-Jozsa quantum fidelity for qubits. We also find relations with the superfidelity.

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