Classical and quantum geometric information flows and entanglement of relativistic mechanical systems
Sergiu I. Vacaru, Lauren\c{t}iu Bubuianu

TL;DR
This paper explores the intersection of geometric flows, entanglement entropy, and quantum information theory within relativistic mechanical systems, developing covariant methods on curved phase spaces.
Contribution
It introduces a covariant framework linking geometric flows with quantum entanglement entropy, integrating thermodynamic and information-theoretic concepts in relativistic phase spaces.
Findings
Formulated entanglement entropy for quantum geometric flows.
Derived properties and inequalities for quantum and thermodynamic entropies.
Connected geometric flow entropy with quantum information measures.
Abstract
This article elaborates on entanglement entropy and quantum information theory of geometric flows of (relativistic) Lagrange--Hamilton mechanical systems. A set of basic geometric and quantum mechanics and probability concepts together with methods of computation are developed in general covariant form for curved phase spaces modelled as cotangent Lorentz bundles. The constructions are based on ideas relating the Grigory Perelman's entropy for geometric flows and associated statistical thermodynamic systems to the quantum von Neumann entropy, classical and quantum relative and conditional entropy, mutual information etc. We formulate the concept of the entanglement entropy of quantum geometric information flows and study properties and inequalities for quantum, thermodynamic and geometric entropies characterising such systems.
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Classical and quantum geometric information flows
and entanglement of relativistic mechanical systems
Sergiu I. Vacaru
*Physics Department, California State University at Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740, USA; and
Dep. Theoretical Physics and Computer Modelling, 101 Storozhynetska street, Chernivtsi, 58029, Ukraine*
Laurenţiu Bubuianu
SRTV - Studioul TVR Iaşi, 28 Alexandru Lapuşneanu street, Iaşi, 700057, Romania;
and *University Apollonia, 2 Muzicii street, Iaşi, 700399, Romania *
emails: [email protected] and [email protected] ;
*Address for post correspondence in 2019-2020 as a visitor senior researcher at YF CNU Ukraine: * 37 Yu. Gagarin street, ap. 3, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 58008email: [email protected]
(January 30, 2020)
Abstract
This article elaborates on entanglement entropy and quantum information theory of geometric flows of (relativistic) Lagrange–Hamilton mechanical systems. A set of basic geometric and quantum mechanics and probability concepts together with methods of computation are developed in general covariant form for curved phase spaces modelled as cotangent Lorentz bundles. The constructions are based on ideas relating the Grigory Perelman’s entropy for geometric flows and associated statistical thermodynamic systems to the quantum von Neumann entropy, classical and quantum relative and conditional entropy, mutual information etc. We formulate the concept of the entanglement entropy of quantum geometric information flows and study properties and inequalities for quantum, thermodynamic and geometric entropies characterising such systems.
Keywords: Perelman W-entropy; quantum geometric information flows.
PACS2010: 02.40.-k, 02.90.+p, 03.65.Ud, 04.50.-h, 04.90.+e, 05.90.+m 05.90.+m
MSC2010: 53C44, 53C50, 53C80, 81P45, 82D99, 83C15, 83C55, 83C99, 83D99, 35Q75, 37J60, 37D35
Contents
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2.1.2 Curvatures, torsions and nonmetricity of linear and distinguished connections
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2.2 F- and W-functionals for mechanical systems in general N-adapted variables
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3 G. Perelman & von Neumann entropies for geometric information flows
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3.2 Density matrix and entropies for quantum information flows
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3.2.1 Statistical density matrix for relativistic classical GIFs
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3.2.5 Quantum generalizations of the W- and thermodynamic entropy
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4.1.3 Two QGIFs systems as analogs of two spin and/or bipartite systems
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4.1.4 Thermofield double QGIF states and entanglement and W-entropy
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4.2 Important properties and entanglement inequalities for QGIFs entropies
1 Introduction
A generic feature of quantum physics which is absent in classical physics is that of entanglement. There were introduced several entanglement measures of how much quantum a given system is. Because of computational accessibility, the entanglement entropy plays a particulary important role together with Rényi entropies, mutual information etc. For recent reviews of most important ideas and results related to quantum information theory, we cite [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] and references therein. Here we note that the concept of entanglement entropy originated from quantum information theory [10]. At present, it is connected to a wide range of applications in condensed matter physics, gravity theories and particle physics etc. The progress in such directions included the holographic formula for entanglement entropy [11], a new type of order parameter for quantum-phase transitions [12, 13, 14], ideas of formulating quantum gravity from quantum entanglement and so-called ER=EPR [15, 16].
There are many motivations to study quantum entanglement which depends on respective directions of research. For instance, we elaborated [17, 18] on the idea that an intriguing connection exists between the Poincaré-Thurston conjecture (it became again a conjecture for relativistic Ricci flows even a proof exists for Riemannian metrics [19]) and the emergent entropic gravity and/or other type modifications. G. Perelman introduced and applied in his famous preprints [19, 20, 21] the F- and W-functionals from which the R. Hamilton’s Ricci flow equations for Ricci flows [22, 23, 24] can be derived. Here we note that in physics such equations were considered earlier by D. Friedan [25, 26, 27]. In a general context, such works and further developments provide strong motivations for elaborating a new direction (based on geometric flows and associated thermodynamical models) in classical and quantum information theory. For such models, the quantum entanglement can be exploited for computational tasks which are impossible if only classical methods are used but for performing on new type theories unifying quantum and geometric flow evolution scenarios.
This article is the 5th partner in a series of works [28, 17, 18, 29] devoted to applications of G. Perelman’s entropic functionals [19] and nonholonommic geometric flow methods in classical and quantum information theory, geometric mechanics and thermodynamics, and modified (entropic and other types) gravity. For a review of mathematical results on Ricci flows of Riemannian and Kähler metrics, rigorous proofs and topological and geometric analysis methods, we cite [30, 31, 32]. In our approach, we consider nonholonomic deformations of the G. Perelman’s functionals and elaborated on new geometric methods and applications in (modified) gravity, geometric mechanics; locally anisotropic kinetics, diffusion and thermodynamics; and information theory. Here we note that in this work we follow the notations on the so-called quantum geometric information flow, QGIF, theory (in brief, it is used GIF for classical models) introduced in [29]. Readers may study our previous works [33, 34, 35, 36, 37] and references therein, on nonholonomic (non) commutative / supersymmetric geometric flows and related kinetic and statistical thermodynamic models.
The aim of this paper is to specifically address the geometric flow evolution and dynamics of the entanglement in quantized Lagrange–Hamilton relativistic mechanical systems. We develop our approach on elaborating new principles and methods for formulating classical and quantum information theories encoding geometric flows and their analogous geometric thermodynamic models. The key ideas for developing such new directions in (quantum) information theory and applications is to extend the standard constructions involving the von Neumann, and related conditional and relative entropies. We introduce into consideration generalizations of the concepts of W-entropy and analogous thermodynamic entropy elaborated in original variants by G. Perelman for Ricci flows of Riemannian metrics.
We try to make this work self-contained and multi-disciplinary pedagogic enough but for advanced researchers working on geometry and physics, nonholonomic geometric mechanics and thermodynamics, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory and information theory. In our case, some typical Alice and Bob communicating using methods of quantum information theory should also have certain knowledge on geometric flows; systems of nonlinear partial differential equations, PDEs, and their applications in modern classical and quantum physics. It is assumed that readers have a background on modified gravity theories and modern astrophysics and cosmology because all such theories provide strong motivations and examples of applications of the formalism elaborated in the cited monographs, reviews and series of works on geometric flows and information theory. In this article, we study entanglement for quantum geometric flows of mechanical systems and do not concern issues on gravity, quantum field theory or condensed matter physics. On emergent gravity theories, modified Ricci flow theories and gravity, exact solutions and related classical and quantum mechanical entropic functionals from which generalized Einstein equations can be derived, see our recent results [33, 34, 35, 36, 37] and references therein.
This article is organized as follows: In section 2, we start with reviewing the fundamentals of the theory of geometric flows of relativistic Hamilton phase spaces. After defining the fundamental geometric objects such as the nonlinear connection, N-connection, and distinguished metric, d-metric, structures, we show how the curvatures can be computed for general and preferred linear connections. Then we introduce the G. Perelman F- and W-functionals (entropic type) for W. Hamilton mechanical systems and their formulation in general N-adapted variables.
Section 3 begins with a quick introduction into the statistical thermodynamic theory of geometric information flows, GIFs, when the G. Perelman approach is generalized for nonholonomic N-adapted variables. The approach is generalized for quantum geometric information flows, QGIFs, using the statistical density matrix and its analogous quantum density matrix. The von Neumann entropy for QGIFs and quantum generalizations of the W- and thermodynamic entropy are considered.
In section 4, we explore the entanglement and QGIFs as quantum mechanical systems. There are defined QGIF analogs of two spin systems, thermofield double GIF states and Bell like geometric flow states. We outline the main properties and inequalities of the entanglement entropy for such systems with mixed geometric and quantum flow evolution. The entanglement and Rényi entropy and QGIFs at finite temperature are studied. Conclusions are provided in section 5.
2 Geometric flows of relativistic Hamilton phase spaces
We present a short review of the geometry of relativistic Hamilton phase spaces modelled on cotangent bundle of a nonholonomic Lorentz manifold , see an axiomatic approach and details in [38, 39]. There are provided formulas for respective generalizations of G. Perelman’s F- and W-entropy functionals for which we follow the conventions from [17, 18, 29], see proofs and references therein.
2.1 The Hessian geometry of relativistic Hamilton spaces
2.1.1 Nonlinear connections and adapted metrics
We consider a cotangent Lorentz bundle enabled with local coordinates (in brief, where are base manifold coordinates and are momentum like typical fiber coordinates. Such a model of relativistic phase spacetime is enabled in any point with a total metric structure (phase space metric) of signature which for corresponding frames/coordinates transforms can be represented in the form
[TABLE]
In these formulas, and 111We follow such conventions: the ”horizontal” indices, h–indices, run values the vertical indices, v-vertical, run values ; respectively, the v-indices can be identified/ contracted with h-indices for lifts on total (co) bundles, when There are used letters labelled by an abstract left up/low symbol ”” (for instance, and in order to emphasize that certain geometric/ physical objects are defined on Similar formulas can be derived on for geometric objects labeled without ””. Boldface symbols are used for geometric objects on spaces endowed with nonlinear connection structure (see below formula (3)). In a more general context, we can elaborate on physical models on curved phase spaces when the metric structure (1) is determined by coefficients of type
A relativistic Hamilton space is determined by a fundamental function (it can be used a generating Hamilton function, Hamiltonian or Hamilton density). For classical models, it is considered that a map defines a real valued function being differentiable on , for being the null section of and continuous on the null section of In a more general context, a can be quantized following prescriptions for a respective quantum model (quantum mechanics, QM, or quantum field theory, QFT, with corresponding quasi-classical relativistic and non-relativistic limits). In this work, we elaborate on relativistic mechanical models which are regular if the Hessian (cv-metric)
[TABLE]
for a is non-degenerate, i.e. and of constant signature.
For Lagrange and Hamilton spaces, we can perform Legendre transforms and determining solutions of the equations In a similar manner, the inverse Legendre transforms can be introduced, when for determining solutions of the equations In this work, we consider Hamilton structures which allow canonical Hamilton formulations of some QM models and respective quasi-classical limits.
Any defines a canonical nonlinear connection (N-connection) structure
[TABLE]
and a N-adapted canonical distinguished metric (d-metric) structure parameterized with conventional horizontal, h, and covertical, cv, components,
[TABLE]
where the canonical N-linear frames are canonically determined by data 222The coefficients of the canonical N-connection are computed following formulas
, where is inverse to (2). The canonical N–adapted (co) frames are
being characterized by corresponding anholonomy relations with anholonomy coefficients and and Such a frame is holonomic (integrable) if the respective anholonomy coefficients are zero.
Considering general frame (vierbein) transforms, and any N-connection and d-metric structure on a cotangent Lorentz bundle can be written in general form (without "tilde" on symbols),
[TABLE]
So, any classical regular Hamilton mechanics can be geometrized in general form on a phase spacetime by some nonholonomic data Inversely, using respective frame transforms on a nonholonomic cotangent bundle, we can always consider a relativistic Hamilton space model defined by some data
2.1.2 Curvatures, torsions and nonmetricity of linear and
distinguished connections
A physically realistic geometrization of physical models on is possible if such a phase space is enabled with a linear (affine) connection structure. Using , we can define in standard form the Levi-Civita connection (as a unique metric compatible and with zero torsion) but such a geometric object is not adapted to the N-connection structure. To elaborate N-adapted geometric models we have to consider the concept of distinguished connection (d–connection) which is a linear connection on preserving under parallel transports a N–connection splitting . With respect to a N-adapted basis the coefficients of a d-connection are labelled . This involves an explicit h– and cv–splitting, of covariant derivatives where and
Prescribing a d-connection structure we can work alternatively with an arbitrary linear connection a linear connection (which is not obligatory a d-connection) on For such covector bundles, there are nonholonomic deformation relations with a respective distortion distinguished tensor, d-tensor,
For any linear connection and/or d-connection structure, and/or , we can define in standard form respective curvature, \ {}^{\shortmid}$$\mathcal{R} and/or torsion, and/or nonmetricity, and/or d-tensors,
[TABLE]
The N–adapted and/or coordinate formulas for coefficients of such geometric objects can be computed in explicit form, see appendices to [38, 39] and references therein.
Using (5), we can define and compute respective Ricci tensors/ d-tensors, scalar curvatures etc. For instance, the Ricci d–tensor of a is defined and computed The N-adapted coefficients of the Ricci d–tensor of a d-connection in respective phase spaces are parameterized in - and/or -form by formulas
[TABLE]
Such formulas for can be written in a similar "underlined" form. Hereafter, for simplicity, we shall provide the formulas only for a general d-connection if that will not result in ambiguities.
If a phase space is enabled both with a d-connection, and a d-metric, structures, we can define and compute nonholonomic Ricci scalars,
[TABLE]
with respective h– and v–components, and
The geometric objects (5), (6) and (7) can be defined for any special classes of linear connection structures. In next subsection, we consider three important classes of linear and/or d-connections determined by a d-metric structure or .
2.1.3 Preferred linear and d-connection structures
Any relativistic phase space can be described as a Hamilton space using the canonical data and/or in general nonholonomic (pseudo) Riemannian form for some . Respective canonical N–connections and/or define correspondingly certain canonical almost complex structures and/or For instance, we can consider a linear operator acting on using formulas and . Such a defines globally an almost complex structure ( where is the unity matrix) on Using and we can define respective (canononical) almost symplectic structures, and In result, we can construct such preferred linear/distinguished connections:
[TABLE]
The geometric objects in (8) are related via corresponding distortion relations
[TABLE]
with distortion d-tensors and , on . In principle, we can work with any such linear connection structure even they have different geometric and physical meaning. The corresponding curvatures and Ricci d-tensors and scalar curvatures can be computed by introducing such distortion relations in respective formulas (5), (6) and (7).
2.2 F- and W-functionals for mechanical systems in general N-adapted
variables
The goal of this subsection is to generalize G. Perelman’s functionals and formulate and approach to the theory of nonholonomic geometric flows of relativistic mechanical systems. We shall consider canonical Hamilton variables and nonholonomic deformations to a general d-connection structure. This is important for further developments in classical and quantum information theories when the Hamilton variables are used in explicit form for analyzing certain analogous mechanical and thermodynamic models and, latter, the results are reformulated in general covariant forms.
We consider a family of nonholonomic cotangent Lorentz bundles enabled with corresponding sets of canonical N–connections and d-metrics all parameterized by a positive parameter 333For simplicity, we shall write, for instance, instead of if that will not result in ambiguities. Relativistic nonholonomic phase spacetimes can be enabled with necessary types double nonholonomic (2+2)+(2+2) and (3+1)+(3+1) splitting [35, 36, 37, 28, 17]. Local (3+1)+(3+1) coordinates are labeled in the form for The insices respectively, can be used for corresponding spacelike hyper surfaces on a base manifold and typical cofiber. In general frame form, such sets of geometric objects are respectively denoted and Let us write correspondingly and for nonholonomic distributions of base and fiber hypersurfaces with conventional splitting 3+3 of signature (+++;+++) on total phase space On a typical cofiber of such a phase space, we can consider a 3-d cofiber hypersurface , for instance, of signature with a label for an energy type parameter. Using N–adapted (3+1)+(3+1) frame and coordinate transforms of metrics with additional dependence on a flow parameter, we can parameterise the d-metric in the form
[TABLE]
where (for are N-adapted bases. This ansatz is written as an extension of a couple of 3–d metrics, on a hypersurface and on a hypersurface if and We consider as the lapse function on the base and as the lapse function in the co-fiber. In this work, we elaborate on geometric phase flow theories on a conventional temperature like parameter
The theory of geometric flows of relativistic Hamilton mechanical systems was formulated [18] in explicit form using canonical data in terms of geometric objects with "tilde" values. Considering nonholonomic frame transforms and deformations of d-connections, and redefining the normalizing functions, we can postulate such generalizations of the G. Perelman functionals:
[TABLE]
In these formulas, we use a brief notation for the integrals on phase space variables and the normalizing function is subjected to the conditions
[TABLE]
for a classical integration measure and the Ricci scalar is taken for the Ricci d-tensor of a d-connection
Similar F- and W–functionals can be postulated for nonholonomic geometric flows on using data or and other type ones related via distorting relations, with correspondingly redefined integration measures and normalizing functions, and respective hypersurfaces. LC-configurations can be extracted for certain conditions when
3 G. Perelman & von Neumann entropies for geometric information flows
Geometric flows of Riemannian metrics are characterized by a statistical thermodynamic model which can be elaborated in a self-consistent form using a W-functional of type (11) defined for Riemannian metrics which has properties of "minus entropy" [19]. Introducing a respective thermodynamic generation function, all thermodynamic values can be defined and computed by integrating with corresponding measures defined by the metric structure and a corresponding normalizing function. Similar constructions can be elaborated for various relativistic, supersymmetric, commutative and noncommutative generalizations if the geometric flow evolution is modelled for corresponding nonholonomic fibered structures preserving causality and basic postulates for self-consistent stochastic, kinetic and thermodynamics models [33, 34, 35, 36, 37], see also [17, 18, 29, 38, 39] and references therein. Originally, such nonholonomic transforms of geometric objects and deformations of the (non) linear connection structures were considered in [40, 41] where the theory of geometric flows was generalized for Finsler-Lagrange geometries. Then the approach was developed for flows of Hamilton classical and quantum mechanical systems with certain applications in information theory [29]. In this section, we redefine the constructions changing the "mechanical" variables into general N-adapted ones which is important for further developments in quantum information and gravity theories.
3.1 Analogous thermodynamic models for Hamiltonian GIFs
For relativistic geometric flows of mechanical systems described by Hamiltonians [18, 29], the thermodynamic generating function can be written in the form , on where the integral is considered for canonical mechanical variables and the corresponding functional dependence is determined by 444Hereafter, we shall not write such dependencies in explicit form if that will not result in ambiguities. With respect to general frames (or with necessary (3+1)+(3+1) decomposition and a d-metric of type (9)), the integration measure can be re-defined in a form which allows us to consider
[TABLE]
A variational N-adapted calculus for and geometric data allows us to compute such relativistic thermodynamic values:
[TABLE]
Such values can be written in Hamilton mechanical variables with tilde as in (12) or re-defining the normalizing functions for the canonical d-connection see (8) and respective distorting relations.
Using the first two formulas in (13) for two d-metrics and , we can define the respective free energy and relative entropy,
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
are computed using the phase spacetime measures, the Ricci scalar and canonical d–connection are determined respectively by and
In this work, we study the geometric flow evolution of thermodynamics systems that preserves the thermal equilibrium at temperature for maps A realistic physical interpretation for such systems exists if
[TABLE]
These aspects connect general frame and mechanical variables flow models to the second low of thermodynamics. Values of type (13) are in relativistic thermodynamic relation if the second thermodynamic law (14) is satisfied. Such conditions impose additional constraints on the class of normalizing and generating functions.
3.2 Density matrix and entropies for quantum information flows
In this subsection, we develop the density matrix formalism for applications in the theory of classical and quantum geometric information flows (respectively, GIFs and QGIFs), see sections 4 and 5 in [29] for a formulation in Hamilton mechanical variables. Nonholonomic deformations of G. Perelman entropy like functionals will be used for relativistic formulations of the von Neumann entropy and QGIFs in arbitrary frames.
3.2.1 Statistical density matrix for relativistic classical GIFs
The thermodynamic generating function (12) with free energy \ {}^{\shortmid}\mathcal{E}\can be used for defining the state density
[TABLE]
with This value is the a classical analog of the density matrix in QM. We shall use it for elaborating models of QGIFs.
We can consider that a density state is associated to when but the geometric evolution may involve another density where the left label 1 is used for distinguishing two d-metrics and In result, the concept of relative entropy between any state density and can be introduced. It can be computed for a prescribed measure on a cotangent Lorentz bundle with considered as a thermodynamical energy parameter associated to
The conditional entropy for GIFs is introduced
[TABLE]
where the *free energy *corresponding to is defined by formula
[TABLE]
with the average energy The thermodynamic entropy in (16) is computed following formula
[TABLE]
The condition is satisfied if is independent on
3.2.2 Entanglement and density matrix for QGIFs
Using canonical mechanical variables we can study special QM systems described by pure states. In a more general context, QM involves probabilities considered not for a quantum state but for densities matrices. In this subsection, we elaborate on how GIFs of classical mechanical systems can be generalized to QGIFs using basic concepts of quantum mechanics, QM, and information theory. We shall elaborate on quantum models of GIFs described in terms of density matrices defined as quantum analogs of state densities of type (15).
For any point of a typical relativistic phase space used for modeling a classical GIF system (13), we associate a typical Hilbert space which is denoted for canonical Hamilton mechanical variables. A state vector can be defined as an infinite dimensional complex vector function. For applications in quantum information theory, there are considered approximations with finite dimensions. Such a is a solution of the Schrödinger equation with a Hamiltonian constructed as a well-defined quantum version of a canonical Hamiltonian In a a more general context, we can work with general covariant variables (or certain versions with (3+1)+(3+1) splitting), when "non-tilde" d-metrics (see (9)) are used for definition of certain quantum measures. Considering unitary transforms of type we can describe the system by an abstract Hilbert space or to associate a complex vector space of dimension with Hermitian product, see details in [1, 7].
The complex geometric arena for QGIFs models consists from complex bundles assoctiated to and constructed as unities of Hilbert spaces for or a points of a subspace of such a phase space. We consider that there are nonholonomic variables when and the integration measure is determined by a or its frame transforms to a It is assumed that such constructions are possible at least for perturbanions nearly a flat "double" Minkowski metric (1) nearly a point This way a perturbative QGIF model with quasi-classical limits can be always elaborated. GIFs describe flow evolution of mechanical systems in causal relativistic classical forms.
The combined Hilbert space is defined as a tensor product, , with an associate Hilbert space considered for a complementary system Here we note that symbols etc. are used as labels for certain systems under geometric evolutions described by respective thermodynamical modles of type (13). The state vectors for a combined QGIF system are written for taken as the unity state vector. Quantum systems subjected only to quantum evolution and not to geometric flows are denoted
Entangled states:
In QM and QGIF theories, a pure state may be not only a tensor product vector but also entangled and represented by a matrix of dimension if and . We underline such symbols in order to avoid ambiguities with the N-connection symbol . A Schmidt decomposition can be considered for any pure state,
[TABLE]
for any index (up to a finite value). The state vectors can be taken to be orthonormal, , where is the Kronecker symbol. If and we can treat as probabilities. In general, such and/or do not define bases of and/or because we can take some vectors when, in principle, it is not enough for such bases. We can consider aht such values split the GIFs into certain probable evolution scenarios.
The quantum density matrix
for a QGIF-associated system is defined
[TABLE]
as a Hermitian and positive semi-definite operator with trace Using such a we can compute the expectation value of any operator characterizing additionally such a system,
[TABLE]
Such values encode both quantum information and geometric flow evolution of bipartite systems of type and with both quantum and geometric entanglement defined by density matrices.
Joint probabilities for bipartite quantum systems and measurements:
Bipartite QGIFs systems are described in general form by quantum density matrices of type or (in canonical mechanical variables) In the classical probability theory, we describe a bipartite system by a joint probability distribution where see details in [1, 7] and, for GIFs, [29].
Considering as a bipartite quantum system with Hilbert space we can define and parameterize a QGIF density matrix in standard QM form:
[TABLE]
In this formula, \underline{a}=1,2,...,$$n is an orthonormal basis of and \underline{b}=1,2,...,$$m as an orthonormal basis of
A measurement of the system is characterized by a reduced density matrix obtained by respective contracting of indices,
[TABLE]
In a similar form, we can define and compute For cotangent bundle constructions, we can distinguish the geometric and physical objects putting left labels "", Using such formulas, we can elaborate on QGIFs models and quantum information theory formulated in conventional mechanical variables or in a general covariant form.
3.2.3 Quantum density matrix for QGIFs
The quantum density matrix for a state density (15) can be defined and computed using formulas (19),
[TABLE]
where the density matrix is taken for computing the QGIF density matrix This matrix is determined by a state density of the thermodynamical model for GIFs of a classical system which can be parameterized in nonholonomic variables of a mechanical Hamiltonian system
For quantum systems, we can work with quantum density matrices and and respective partial traces and Such formulas can be written in coefficient forms
[TABLE]
Using a density matrix encoding the data for QGIFs of Hamilton mechanical system described in general covariant variables, we can compute respective thermodynamical values.
3.2.4 The von Neumann entropy and QGIFs
QGIFs can be described in standard QM form for the von Neumann entropy determined by (20) as a probability distribution,
[TABLE]
Hereafter we shall write the trace in a simplified form without a label for the corresponding Hilbert space if that will not result in ambiguities. We use also a left label to state the quantum character of such values. It should be also emphasized that such an entropy is a quantum analog of a used in the thermodynamic model for geometric flow evolution of Hamilton mechanical systems. Tilde can be omitted for general frame transforms when encode a different frame structure. Such a QGIF entropy satisfies two conditions: and it is manifestly invariant under a unitary transformation
The von Neuman entropy for QGIFs, has a purifying property which does not have a classical analog. Considering a bipartite system and we compute
[TABLE]
In these formulas, we have the same probabilities p_{\underline{k}}\ for two formulas with different matrices and bases. This proves that when a system and a purifying system have the same von Neumann entropy.
3.2.5 Quantum generalizations of the W- and thermodynamic entropy
QGIFs can be characterized not only by a von Neumann entropy of type (21) but also by quantum analogs of entropy values used for classical geometric flows. We can consider both an associated thermodynamics entropy and a W-entropy in classical variants and then quantize such systems using a respective Hamiltonian which allows a self-consistent QM formulation. Such values can be introduced and computed in explicit form using respective formulas (20), (22) for classical conditional (16) and mutual entropy considered for GIFs and in information theory [1, 7, 29]. We define respectively
[TABLE]
Such values describe corresponding entropic properties of quantum systems with rich geometric structure under geometric flow evolution.
The quantum probabilistic characteristics are described by the von Neumann entropy (21) and corresponding generalizations for and systems
[TABLE]
Such values also encode thermodynamic, geometric flow and probabilistic properties of QGIFs and can be used for elaborating a standard approach to quantum information theory for systems with geometric mechanical Hamilton flows and their covariant frame transforms.
4 Entanglement and QGIFs of quantum mechanical systems
Originally, the notion of bipartite entanglement was introduced for pure states and density matrix generalizations in description of finite-dimensional QM systems, see review of results in [1, 7, 3, 6]. In this section, we analyze how the concept of entanglement can be generalized for QGIFs when, for instance, there are considered two relativistic mechanical systems under geometric flow evolution. Such systems and their thermodynamic and QM analogs are characterized by a set of entropies like G. Perelman’s W-entropy and geometric thermodynamic entropy and the nontrivial entanglement entropy in the von Neumann sense. Each of such entropic values characterise classical and quantum correlations determined by geometric flow evolution and quantifies the amount of quantum entanglement. A set of inequalities involving Pereleman and entanglement entropies play a crucial role in definition and description of such systems. We provide such formulas without rigorous proofs following two reasons: The W-entropy (11), thermodynamic entropy (13) and related von Neumann (21) realizations are well-defined classical and quantum entropic type values. For physicists, such formulas have a natural and intuitive motivation and interpretation in terms of thermodynamical generation functions and density matrices for GIFs. Rigorous mathematical proofs on hundreds of papers use methods of geometric analysis [19, 30, 31, 32]. On main ideas and key steps for checking such results and selecting causal and realistic physical scenarios, we discuss in footnote 10 of our partner work [29].
4.1 Geometric flows with entanglement
The goal of this subsection is to study how the concept of quantum entanglement can be developed for QGIF systems characterized by an associated statistical thermodynamic model with respective generating function which transforms into a respective density matrix in a related quantum theory.
4.1.1 Bipartite entanglement for QGIFs
For any (relativistic) mechanic model, continuous or a lattice model of quantum field theory, thermo-field theory, QGIF model etc., we can associate a QM mechanical model with a pure ground state for a total Hilbert space when the density matrix is
[TABLE]
can be normalized following the conditions so that the total trace Such a conventional total quantum system is divided into a two subsystems and In this section, we consider that (13) is a typical GIF system (in mechanical, or general covariant variables) for with a QGIF model is elaborated. A similar model (in principle, for a different associated relativistic Hamiltonian and d-metric ) is considered for Such subsystems and are complimentary to each other if in a -dimensional cotangent bundle space there is a common boundary of codimension 2, where the non-singular geometric flow evolution transforms into a necessary analytic class of flows on In principle, we can consider two completely different and classically separated GIF systems and which are correlated as quantum systems. We can consider that for bipartite QGIFs as we considered in subsection 3.2. Such an approximation is less suitable, for instance, if there are considered theories with gauge symmetries, see discussion and references in footnote 3 of [6] (we omit such constructions in this work).
The measure of entanglement of a QGIF subsystem is just the von Neumann entropy (21) but defined for the reduced density matrix when the entanglement entropy of is
[TABLE]
Such a is associated to a state density of type (15). We note that the total entropy for a pure grand state (23).
4.1.2 Separable and entangled QGIFs
Considering and as orthonormal bases, we can parameterize a pure total ground state in the form
[TABLE]
where is a complex matrix of dimension When such coefficients factorize, we obtain a separable ground state (equivalently, pure product state), when
[TABLE]
The entanglement entropy if and only if the pure ground state is separable. For QGIFs, such definitions are motivated because corresponding sub-systems are described by corresponding effective relativistic Hamilton functions, and and/or effective thermodynamics energies, and
A ground state (25) is entangled (inseparable ) if . For such a state, the entanglement entropy is positive, Using quantum Schmidt decompositions (17) and (18), we prove that
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In summary, an entangled state of QGIFs is a superposition of several quantum states associated to GIFs. An observer having access only to a subsystem will find him/ herself in a mixed state when the total ground state is entangled following such conditions:
[TABLE]
The von Neumann entanglement entropy encodes two types of information: 1) how geometric evolution is quantum flow correlated and 2) how much a given QGIF state differs from a separable QM state. A maximum value of quantum correlations is reached when a given QGIF state is a superposition of all possible quantum states with an equal weight. Additional GIF properties are characterized by W-entropy (11) and thermodynamic entropy (13) which can be computed in certain quasi-classical QM limits, for a 3+1 splitting, for instance, along a time like curve.
4.1.3 Two QGIFs systems as analogs of two spin and/or bipartite
systems
The most simple example of an entangled system [1, 7, 3, 6] is that of two particles and with spin . In the information theory, such quantum spin systems can be used to encode binary information as bits and, with further generalizations, to elaborate on quantum bits, qubits. Respective theoretical descriptions use density matrices and the von Neumann entropy.
To study similar entanglement properties of geometric flows in classical and quantum information theory we can consider two thermodynamical models of general covariant mechanical systems and see formulas (13). A respective QGIF model with entanglement is elaborated for different associated relativistic Hamiltonians and respective d-metrics and For simplicity, we consider that the conventional Hilbert spaces are spanned by two orthonormal basic states in the form and when The total Hilbert space has a 4-dim orthonormal basis where are tensor product states.
As a general state, we can consider
[TABLE]
where The corresponding entanglement entropy (24) is computed
[TABLE]
Above formulas show that for we obtain pure product states with zero entanglement entropy. For a system when the density matrix
[TABLE]
results in
[TABLE]
So, the maximal entanglement is for If the GIF structure is "ignored" for such a quantum system (or (27)), we can treat it as conventional QM system, for instance, with up-spin and down-spin In a general context, QGIFs with nonholonomic structure determined by Hamilton mechanical systems are characterized additionally by respective values of W-entropy (11) and thermodynamic entropy (13). In orthonormal quantum bases, the entanglement entropy is the measure of "pure" quantum entanglement. The information flows with rich nonholonomic geometric structure are characterized additionally by geometric type entropies.
4.1.4 Thermofield double QGIF states and entanglement and W-entropy
If the evolution parameter is treated as a temperature one like in the standard G. Perelman’s approach, we can consider respective geometric flow theories as certan classical and/or quantum thermofield models. Such a nontrivial example with entanglement and a thermofield double GIFs state is defined by a ground state (25) parameterized in the form
[TABLE]
where the normalization of the states is take for the partition function . Such values are associated to the thermodynamic generating function (12) and state density matrix (15) the energy \ {}^{\shortmid}\mathcal{E}_{\mathcal{A}}=\{E_{\underline{k}}\}\ is considered quantized with a discrete spectrum for a QGIF system The density matrix for this subsystem determining a Gibbse state is computed
[TABLE]
In above formulas, we consider as a (modular) Hamiltonian such that .
In principle, the thermofield double states for QGIFs consist certain entanglement purifications of thermal states with Boltzman weight , see discussions related to formulas (22). Coping the state vectros from to we can purify the QGIF thermal system in the extended Hilbert space In result, every expectation value of local operators in can be represented using the thermofield double state (28) of the total system . For such models, the entanglement entropy is a measure of the thermal entropy of the subsystem when
[TABLE]
where the thermal free energy is computed Here we note that for the thermofield values it is omitted the label "q" considered, for instance, for (24), see also formulas (16).
Thermofield GIF configurations are also characterized by the respective W-entropy (11) which can be defined even thermodynamic models are not elaborated. For nonholonomic kinetic, diffusion and thermodynamic structures including relativistic Ricci flows, such models were studied in detail in [33, 36, 44], see references therein. We also cite some important works on geometric thermodynamics and thermofield theories, see [42, 43, 45] and references. The thermofield double states were considered in black hole thermodynamics and QFT, see reviews of results in [1, 2, 7, 3, 6].
4.1.5 Bell like QGIF states
In a two QGIF system, a state (27) is maximally entangled for . Analogs of Bell state (or Einstein-Podosly-Rosen pairs) in quantum geometric flow theory are defined
[TABLE]
In QM models, these states violate the Bell’s inequalities. Such inequalities hold in a hidden variable theory for the probabilistic features of QM with a hidden variable and a probability density. In this work, the states (29) encode also information of geometric flows characterized by W-entropy.
EPR pairs and multi-qubits for QGIFs:
The constructions can be extended for systems of quabits. The first example generalizes the concept of Greenberger-Horne-Zelinger, GHZ, states [46, 47, 6],
[TABLE]
In quantum information theory, thre are used another type of entangled states (called W states; do not confuse with W-entropy) [49],
[TABLE]
We emphasize that is fully separable but not which we shall prove in the example below.
Tripartite QGIFs:
For with subsystems and we write
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Considering we define the reduced density matrices for the system
[TABLE]
This describe two different QGIF states. The first one is fully separable and can be represented in the form where and and Because of the Bell state (29), the can not be written in a separable form. So, the state is still entangled even we have taken This establishes a quantum correlation between QGIFs. Additionally, such values are characterized by W-entropies of type (11) computed for and
4.2 Important properties and entanglement inequalities for QGIFs
entropies
We summarize several useful properties of the entanglement entropy (24) for QGIFs formulated in terms of the density matrix of type We omit explicit cumbersome and techniqual proofs because they are similar to derivations in [10]. For any associated to a state density of type (15), we can compute the respective W-entropy and geometric thermodynamic entropy taking measures determined by and/or respective Hamilton mechanical variables. Rigorous mathematical proofs involve a geometric analysis technique summarized in [19, 30, 31, 32]. For applications in modern gravity and particle physics theories, we can elaborate on alternative approaches using the anholonomic frame method of constructing off-diagonal solutions in relativistic geometric flow theories and generalizations [36, 37, 28]. Using explicit classes of solutions and re-defining normalizing functions, we can always compute Perelman’s like entropy functionals at least in the quasi-classical limit with respective measures and related to (24) for a QGIF or a thermofield GIF model.
4.2.1 (Strong) subadditivity
We present four important properties of QGIFs which result in the strong subadditivity property of entanglement and Perelman’s entropies.
Entanglement entropy for complementary subsystems:
If the entanglement entropies are the same
[TABLE]
which follows from formulas (26) for a pure ground state wave function. Similar equalities for the W-entropy (11) and/or thermodynamic entropy (13) can be proven only for the same d-metrics and respective normalizations on and Here we note that if is a mixed state, for instance, at a finite temperature. So, in general,
[TABLE]
We have to consider a subclass of nonholonomic deformations when conditions transform into equalities for respective relativistic flow evolution scenarios and associated thermodynamic and QM systems.
Subadditivity:
For disjoint subsystems and , there are satisfied the conditions of subadditivity
[TABLE]
The second equation transforms into the triangle inequality [50]. In the quasi-classical limit, we obtain similar inequalities for the thermodynamic entropy (13). We claim that similar conditions hold for the W-entropy (11). They can be computed as quantum perturbations in a QFT associated to a bipartite QGIF model
[TABLE]
Such flow evolution and QM scenarios are elaborated for mixed geometric and quantum probabilistic information flows.
Strong subadditivity:
Considering three disjointed QGIF subsystems and and certain conditions of convexity of a function built from respective density matrix and unitarity of systems [51, 52, 7, 6], one hold the following inequalities of strong subbadditivity:
[TABLE]
From these conditions, the conditions of subadditivity (30) can be derived as particular cases. Along causal curves on respective cotangent Lorentz manifolds, we can prove similar formulas for the W-entropy and small quantum perturbations
[TABLE]
We claim such properties for respective QGIFs. They play vital roles in the entropic proofs of the so-called - -theorems for renormalization group flows in QFT, see review of results in section VIII of [6]. In our approach, we elaborate on a different geometric formalism with nonholonomic flow evolution and respective applications in quantum information theory.
4.2.2 Relative entropy and QGIF entanglement
There are several measures of quantum entanglement which are determined by geometric and thermodynamic values for QGIFs. We begin with the concept of* relative entropy* in geometric information theories.
[TABLE]
where This value is a measure of "distance" between two QGIFs with a norm For thermodynamical GIF systems, it transforms into the conditional entropy (16). It was introduced and studied for standard densiti matrices in QM and information theory, respectively, in [53] and [54, 55], see reviews [1, 7, 6]. In straightforward form, we can check that there are satisfied certain important properties and inequalities.
Two QGIF systems
are characterized by formulas and conditions:
for tensor products of density matrices,
[TABLE] 2. 2.
positivity:
[TABLE] 3. 3.
monotonicity:
[TABLE]
where is the trase for a subsystem of
Using above positivity formula and the Schwarz inequality we obtain that
[TABLE]
for any expectation value of an operator computed with the density matrix see formulas (19).
The relative entropy (31) can be related to the entaglement entropy (24) using formula
[TABLE]
where is the unit matrix for a -dimensional Hilbert space associated to the region Above properties can be re-defined by the entanglement entropy , see similar formulas for QGIFs in Hamilton mechancal variables in [29].
Three QGIF systems:
Let us denote by the density matrix of three QGIFs subsystems and, for instance, for its restriction on and for its restriction on Using the formula for computing traces of reduced density matrices,
[TABLE]
we prove such identities
[TABLE]
and inequalities
[TABLE]
These formulas can be re-written (after corresponding applications of the rule (32)) for the entanglement entropies and Hamilton mechanical variables with "tilde" [29].
4.2.3 Mutual information for QGIFs
The correlation between two QGIF systems and (it can be involved also a third system ) is characterized by the mutual information and respective inequalities which follow from above formulas for relative entropy,
[TABLE]
The mutual information is related to the relative entropy following formula
[TABLE]
which allows to consider similar concepts and inequalities for the entanglement of QGIF systems:
[TABLE]
In the classical variant of GIFs, one hold similar formulas for GIFs and associated thermodynamic models with statistical density (15). For relativistic geometric flows, we claim that similar properties hold for the constructions using the W-entropy. In particular, this can be proven for causal configurations in nonholonomic Hamilton variables [29].
The mutual information between two QGIFs shows how much for an union the density matrix differs from a separable state Quantum correlations entangle even spacetime disconnected regions of the phase spacetime under geometric flow evolution. For bounded operators and under geometric evolution in respective regions, one holds true (the proof is similar to that in [56]) the inequality
[TABLE]
Such formulas can be proven for associated thermodynamic systems to classical GIFs using the statistical density if, for instance, and are certain subsystems of phase spaces and respective geometric flows.
4.2.4 The Rényi entropy for QGIFs
We can introduce another type of parametric entropy which provides us more information about the eigenvalues of reduced entropy matrices thant the entanglement entropy. This is the Rényi entropy [57] which is important for computing the entanglement entropy of QFTs using the replica method, see section IV of [6]. Such constructions are possible in QGIF theory because the thermodynamic generating function (12) and related statistical density (15) can be used for defining (20) as a probability distribution.
Replica method and G. Perelman’s thermodynamica model:
Let us consider an integer called as the replica parameter and introduce the Rényi entropy
[TABLE]
for a QGIF system determined by a density matrix 555We use the symbol for the replica parameter (and not as in the typical works in information theory) because the symbol is used in our works for the dimension of base manifolds. We use the symbol for the replica parameter (and not as in the typical works in information theory) because the symbol is used in our works for the dimension of base manifolds. To elaborate a computational formalism one considers an analytic continuation of to a real number which allows us to define the limit , with the normalization for when the Rényi entropy (34) reduces to the entanglement entropy (24).
There are satisfied certain important inequalities for derivatives on replica parameter, of the Rényi entropy (proofs are similar to [58]):
[TABLE]
These formulas have usual thermodynamical interpretations for a system with a modular Hamiltonian and effective statistical density Considering as the inverse temperature, we introduce the effective "thermal" statistical generation (partition) function,
[TABLE]
similarly to (12). In analogy to the thermodynamical model for geometric flows (13), we compute by canonical relations such statistical mechanics values
[TABLE]
These inequalities are equivalent to the second line in (35) and characterize the stability if GIFs as a thermal system with replica parameter regarded as the inverse temperature for a respective modular Hamiltonian. Such replica criteria of stability were not considered in the original works on Ricci flows [19, 30, 31, 32]. They define a new direction for the theory of geometric flows and applications in modern physics with respective genrealizations for nonholonomic structures. [40, 41, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 17, 18, 29, 38, 39].
We note that the constructions with the modular entropy can be transformed into models derived with the Rényi entropy and inversely. Such transforms can be performed using formulas
[TABLE]
The implications of the inequalities for the Rényi entropy were analyzed for the gravitational systems with holographic description, see reviews [2, 1, 6]. In this subsection, the approach is generalized for nonholonomic geometric structures and covariant mechanical systems with applications in information theory.
Relative Rényi entropy for QGIFs:
The concept of relative entropy (31) can be extended to that of relative Rényi entropy [59, 60] (for a review, see section II.E.3b in [6]). For a system QGIFs with two density matrices and , we introduce
[TABLE]
Such definitions allow us to prove certain monotonic properties,
[TABLE]
and to reduce the relative Rényi entropy to the Rényi entropy using a formula similar to (32),
[TABLE]
Nevertheless, the values (36) do not allow a naive generalization of the concept of mutual information and interpretation as an entanglement measure of quantum information because of possible negative values of relative Rényi entropy for [61]. This problem is solved by the -Rényi mutual information [62],
[TABLE]
when the minimum is taken over all This formula reduced to the mutual information (33) for In result, we can elaborate a self-consistent geometric-information thermodynamic theory for QGIFs. This is possible if the statistical density (15) is used for defining (20) as a probability distribution and respective von Neumann density matrix formulation of the quantum models. It is not clear at present if a version of relative Rényi entropy can be elaborated for the W-entropy.
5 Conclusions
The geometric flows of Riemannian metrics can be characterized by G. Perelman’s W-entropy and associated statistical thermodynamic model with respective mean energy, mean entropy and fluctuation parameter [19]. Such constructions can be generalized for nonholonomic geometric flows (subjected to certain non-integrable, i.e. anholonomic, equivalently, nonholonomic conditions) with generalized entropy type functionals and related locally anisotropc diffusion, kinetic and thermodynamic theories [33, 44, 36]. In result, we can elaborate on advanced geometric methods for modeling relativistic geometric flows of classical and quantum mechanical systems, and modified commutative and noncommutative/ supersymmetric gravity theories etc. [36, 37, 35].
A series of our recent works, see [17, 29] and refereces therein, is devoted to formulation and applications on the theory of geometric information flows, GIFs, and quantum information flows, QGIFs. In such approaches, the geometric thermodynamic models involve G. Perelman like entropic constructions [18] which are more general than those elaborated using the Bekenstein-Hawking surface-area entropy and respective holographic, dual CFT-gauge theory generalizations etc. [63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69]. New classes of generic off-diagonal solutions (various locally anisotropic cosmological ones, generalized black hole metrics) with the coefficients of metrics and generalized connections depending, in principle, on all spacetime and possible phase space coordinates can be constructed [39, 28] in general relativity and modified gravity theories. Such new classes of exact and parametric solutions, and related quantized models, are characterized by G. Perelman entropies and do not have Bekenstein-Hawking analogs.
In this article, we have focused on developing the notion of entanglement for quantum mechanical, QM, and geometric thermodynamic models derived for QGIFs. This specific problem is of utmost importance within vast domains of studies of properties of entanglement entropy of general relativistic quantum systems and, for instance, new types of QGIF teleportation, geometric flow testing, and encoding classical mechancal flow information in quantum states. In addition to the results of [40, 41] formulated for nonholonomic Lagrange and Hamilton variables, we elaborated such constructions for covariant classical and quantum mechanical systems and explicit applications in quantum information theory.
Finally, we note that important questions connected to entanglement of QGIF and modified gravity theories still remain as open challenges and promising research directions in modern geometric classical and quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and modified gravity, see [28, 17, 18, 29].
Acknowledgments: This research develops former programs partially supported by IDEI, PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0256, CERN 2012-2014, DAAD-2015, QGR 2016-2017. S. V. is grateful to D. Singleton, S. Rajpoot and P. Stavrinos for collaboration and supporting his research on geometric methods in physics.
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