Thermal Equilibrium Distribution in Infinite-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(20)30085-9MaRDI QIDQ6339681arXivFDO

Authors Roderich Tumulka

Publication date 29 April 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4877(20)30085-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Probability theory on linear topological spaces (60B11) Gaussian processes (60G15) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MPquant-ph

Abstract: The thermal equilibrium distribution over quantum-mechanical wave functions is a so-called Gaussian adjusted projected (GAP) measure, $$, for a thermal density operator $$ at inverse temperature $$. More generally, $GAP(ho)$ is a probability measure on the unit sphere in Hilbert space for any density operator $ho$ (i.e., a positive operator with trace 1). In this note, we collect the mathematical details concerning the rigorous definition of $GAP(ho)$ in infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces. Its existence and uniqueness follows from Prohorov's theorem on the existence and uniqueness of Gaussian measures in Hilbert spaces with given mean and covariance. We also give an alternative existence proof. Finally, we give a proof that $GAP(ho)$ depends continuously on $ho$ in the sense that convergence of $ho$ in the trace norm implies weak convergence of $GAP(ho)$.

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