Constrained minimizers of the von Neumann entropy and their characterization

DOI10.1007/S00526-020-01753-1MaRDI QIDQ2189551zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Romain Duboscq, Olivier Pinaud

Publication date 16 June 2020

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12733

zbMATH Keywords

constrained minimizersEuler-Lagrange equationnonlinear eigenvalue problemvon Neumann entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We consider in this work the problem of minimizing the von Neumann entropy under the constraints that the density of particles, the current, and the kinetic energy of the system is fixed at each point of space. The unique minimizer is a self-adjoint positive trace class operator, and our objective is to characterize its form. We will show that this minimizer is solution to a self-consistent nonlinear eigenvalue problem. One of the main difficulties in the proof is to parametrize the feasible set in order to derive the Euler-Lagrange equation, and we will proceed by constructing an appropriate form of perturbations of the minimizer. The question of deriving quantum statistical equilibria is at the heart of the quantum hydrody-namical models introduced by Degond and Ringhofer in [5]. An original feature of the problem is the local nature of constraints, i.e. they depend on position, while more classical models consider the total number of particles, the total current and the total energy in the system to be fixed.

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