Hypercontractivity and logarithmic Sobolev Inequality for non-primitive quantum Markov semigroups and estimation of decoherence rates

DOI10.1007/S00023-022-01196-8arXiv1803.05379MaRDI QIDQ6299063FDOQ6299063

Authors: Ivan Bardet, Cambyse Rouzé 

Publication date: 14 March 2018

Abstract: We generalize the concepts of weak quantum logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI) and weak hypercontractivity (HC), introduced in the quantum setting by Olkiewicz and Zegarlinski, to the case of non-primitive quantum Markov semigroups (QMS). The originality of this work resides in that this new notion of hypercontractivity is given in terms of the so-called amalgamated $mathbb{L}_p$ norms introduced recently by Junge and Parcet in the context of operator spaces theory. We make three main contributions. The first one is a version of Gross' integration lemma: we prove that (weak) HC implies (weak) LSI. Surprisingly, the converse implication differs from the primitive case as we show that LSI implies HC but with a weak constant equal to the cardinal of the center of the decoherence-free algebra. Building on the first implication, our second contribution is the fact that strong LSI and therefore strong HC do not hold for non-trivially primitive QMS. This implies that the amalgamated $mathbb{L}_p$ norms are not uniformly convex for $1leqpleq2$. As a third contribution, we derive universal bounds on the (weak) logarithmic Sobolev constants for a QMS on a finite dimensional Hilbert space, using a similar method as Diaconis and Saloff-Coste in the case of classical primitive Markov chains, and Temme, Pastawski and Kastoryano in the case of primitive QMS. This leads to new bounds on the decoherence rates of decohering QMS. Additionally, we apply our results to the study of the tensorization of HC in non-commutative spaces in terms of the completely bounded norms (CB norms) recently introduced by Beigi and King for unital and trace preserving QMS. We generalize their results to the case of a general primitive QMS and provide estimates on the (weak) constants.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Noncommutative probability and statistics (46L53) Groups and semigroups of linear operators, their generalizations and applications (47D99)

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