The Thermomajorization Polytope and Its Degeneracies

DOI10.3390/E26020106arXiv2212.04305WikidataQ129496333 ScholiaQ129496333MaRDI QIDQ6507263FDOQ6507263

Authors: Frederik vom Ende 

Abstract: It is well known that the future thermal cone -- which is the set of all states thermomajorized by a given initial state -- forms a convex polytope in the quasi-classical realm, and that one can explicitly write down a map which relates the permutations to the extreme points of this polytope. Given any such extreme point we review a formula for a Gibbs-stochastic matrix that maps the initial state to said extremal state, and we uncover the simple underlying structure. This allows us to draw a connection to the theory of transportation polytopes, which leads to the notions of ``well-structured and ``stable Gibbs states. While the former relates to the number of extremal states being maximal, the latter characterizes when thermomajorization is a partial order in the quasi-classical realm; this corresponds to the impossibility of cyclic state transfers. Moreover, we give simple criteria for degeneracy of the polytope, that is, for checking whether the extreme point map maps two different permutations to the same state.

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