UC Davis

Geometric quantum mechanics, through its differential-geometric underpinning, provides additional tools of analysis and interpretation that bring quantum mechanics closer to classical mechanics: state spaces in both are continuous and equipped with symplectic geometry. This opens the door to revisiting foundational questions and issues, such as the nature of quantum entropy, from a geometric perspective. Central to this is the concept of a geometric quantum state - the probability measure on a system's space of pure states. This space's continuity leads us to introduce two analysis tools, inspired by Renyi's approach to information theory of continuous variables, to characterize and quantify fundamental properties of geometric quantum states: the quantum information dimension, which is the rate of geometric quantum state compression, and the dimensional geometric entropy that monitors information stored in quantum states. We recount their classical definitions, information-theoretic interpretations, and adapt them to quantum systems via the geometric approach. We then explicitly compute them in various examples and classes of quantum system. We conclude commenting on future directions for information in geometric quantum mechanics.