Newton's identities and positivity of trace class integral operators

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACC147MaRDI QIDQ6404828arXivFDO

Authors Gábor Homa, Richárd Balka, J. Z. Bernád, András Csordás

Publication date 13 July 2022

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Positive linear operators and order-bounded operators (47B65) Applications of operator theory to differential and integral equations (47N20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Real polynomials: analytic properties, etc. (26C05) Linear operators belonging to operator ideals (nuclear, (p)-summing, in the Schatten-von Neumann classes, etc.) (47B10) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

Abstract: We provide a countable set of conditions based on elementary symmetric polynomials that are necessary and sufficient for a trace class integral operator to be positive semidefinite, which is an important cornerstone for quantum theory in phase-space representation. We also present a new, efficiently computable algorithm based on Newton's identities. Our test of positivity is much more sensitive than the ones given by the linear entropy and Robertson-Schr"odinger's uncertainty relations; our first condition is equivalent to the non-negativity of the linear entropy.

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