Fisher Information and Semiclassical Treatments

We review here the difference between quantum statistical treatments and semiclassical ones, using as the main concomitant tool a semiclassical, shift-invariant Fisher information measure built up with Husimi distributions. Its semiclassical character notwithstanding, this measure also contains abun...

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Main Authors: Angelo Plastino, Flavia Pennini, Gustavo Ferri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-12-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/11/4/972/
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Summary:We review here the difference between quantum statistical treatments and semiclassical ones, using as the main concomitant tool a semiclassical, shift-invariant Fisher information measure built up with Husimi distributions. Its semiclassical character notwithstanding, this measure also contains abundant information of a purely quantal nature. Such a tool allows us to refine the celebrated Lieb bound for Wehrl entropies and to discover thermodynamic-like relations that involve the degree of delocalization. Fisher-related thermal uncertainty relations are developed and the degree of purity of canonical distributions, regarded as mixed states, is connected to this Fisher measure as well.
ISSN:1099-4300