About the foundation of the Kubo generalized cumulants theory: a revisited and corrected approach

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AB7755zbMATH Open1456.60047arXiv1911.09620OpenAlexW3016507641MaRDI QIDQ5135124FDOQ5135124

Authors: Marco Bianucci, Mauro Bologna 

Publication date: 19 November 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: More than fifty years ago, in a couple of seminal works Kubo introduced the important idea of generalized cumulants, extending to stochastic operators this concept, implicitly introduced by Laplace in 1810. Kubo's idea has been applied in several branches of physics, where the result of the average process is a Lioville operator or an effective time evolution operator for the density matrix of spin systems or the reduced density matrix for boson-fermions etc. Despite this success, the theoretical developments in these Kubo works pose problems that were highlighted many years ago by Fox and van Kampen and never solved. These weaknesses and errors, in particular concerning the factorization property of exponentials of cumulants and the explicit expressions that give generalized cumulants in terms of generalized moments and vice-versa, caused some perplexity (and confusion) about the possible application of this procedure, limiting its use, in practice. In the present paper, we give a sound ground to the approach to cumulant operators, working in a general framework that shows the potentiality of the old Kubo's idea, today not yet fully exploited. It results that for the same moment operators, different definitions of generalized cumulants can be adopted. A general Kubo-Meeron closed-form formula giving cumulant operators in terms of moment operators cannot be obtained, but the reverse one, cumulants in terms of operators, is given and, noticeably, formally it {em does not} depend on the specific nature of the moments, but just on the definition of the generalized cumulants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09620

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Noncommutative probability and statistics (46L53) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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