Information Geometry Aspects of Minimum Entropy Production Paths from Quantum Mechanical Evolutions

Abstract

We present an information geometric analysis of entropic speeds and entropy production rates in geodesic evolution on manifolds of parametrized quantum states. These pure states emerge as outputs of suitable su(2; C) time-dependent Hamiltonian operators used to describe distinct types of analog quantum search schemes. The Riemannian metrization on the manifold is specified by the Fisher information evaluated along the parametrized squared probability amplitudes obtained from analysis of the temporal quantum mechanical evolution of a spin-1/2 particle in an external time-dependent magnetic field that specifies the su(2; C) Hamiltonian model. We employ a minimum action method to transfer a quantum system from an initial state to a final state on the manifold in a finite temporal interval. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the minimizing (optimum) path is the shortest (geodesic) path between the two states, and, in particular, minimizes also the total entropy production that occurs during the transfer. Finally, by evaluating the entropic speed and the total entropy production along the optimum transfer paths in a number of physical scenarios of interest in analog quantum search problems, we show in a clear quantitative manner that to a faster transfer there corresponds necessarily a higher entropy production rate. Thus, we conclude that lower entropic efficiency values appear to accompany higher entropic speed values in quantum transfer processes.

12 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E (2020)

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