Relative Entropy for Fermionic Quantum Field Theory

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Authors Stefano Galanda

Publication date 18 October 2022

Abstract: We study the relative entropy, in the sense of Araki, for the representation of a self-dual CAR algebra $mathfrak{A}_{SDC}(mathcalH,Gamma)$. We notice, for a specific choice of $finmathcalH$, that the associated element in $mathfrak{A}_{SDC}(mathcalH,Gamma)$ is unitary. As a consequence, we explicitly compute the relative entropy between a quasifree state over $mathfrak{A}_{SDC}(mathcalH,Gamma)$ and an excitation of it with respect to the abovely mentioned unitary element. The generality of the approach, allows us to consider $mathcalH$ as the Hilbert space of solutions of the classical Dirac equation over globally hyperbolic spacetimes, making our result, a computation of relative entropy for a Fermionic Quantum Field Theory. Our result extends those of Longo and Casini et al. for the relative entropy between a quasifree state and a coherent excitation for a free Scalar Quantum Field Theory, to the case of fermions. As a first application, we computed such a relative entropy for a Majorana field on an ultrastatic spacetime.

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