Functions of linear operators: Parameter differentiation

DOI10.1063/1.533305MaRDI QIDQ2738007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Domingo Prato, C. Tsallis

Publication date 30 August 2001

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9906173

zbMATH Keywords

diagonalizable linear operatorfunction of linear operatorsparameter differentiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional calculus for linear operators (47A60)

Abstract: We derive a useful expression for the matrix elements $[fracpartialf[A(t)]partialt{]}_{ij}$ of the derivative of a function $f[A(t)]$ of a diagonalizable linear operator $A(t)$ with respect to the parameter $t$. The function $f[A(t)]$ is supposed to be an operator acting on the same space as the operator $A(t)$. We use the basis which diagonalizes A(t), i.e., $A_{ij}=lambd{a}_{i}delt{a}_{ij}$, and obtain $[fracpartialf[A(t)]partialt{]}_{ij}=[fracpartialApartialt{]}_{ij}fracf(lambd{a}_j)-f(lambd{a}_i)lambd{a}_j-lambd{a}_i$. In addition to this, we show that further elaboration on the (not necessarily simple) integral expressions given by Wilcox 1967 (who basically considered $f[A(t)]$ of the exponential type) and generalized by Rajagopal 1998 (who extended Wilcox results by considering $f[A(t)]$ of the $q$-exponential type where $ex{p}_q(x)equiv[1+(1-q)x{]}^{1/(1-q)}$ with $qincalR$; hence, $ex{p}_1(x)=exp(x))$ yields this same expression. Some of the lemmas first established by the above authors are easily recovered.

Review text

The authors derive a useful expression for the matrix elements \([\partial f[A(t)]/\partial t]_{ij}\) of the derivative of a function \(f[A(t)]\) of a diagonalizable linear operator \(A(t)\) with respect to the parameter \(t\) at \(t_0\). The function \(f[A(t)]\) is supposed to be an operator acting on the same space as the operator \(A(t)\) which is assumed to have a nondegenerate, pure point spectrum.

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