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Fermionic Markov Chains

Quantum Physics 2012-04-27 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study a quantum process that can be considered as a quantum analogue for the classical Markov process. We specifically construct a version of these processes for free Fermions. For such free Fermionic processes we calculate the entropy density. This can be done either directly using Szeg\"o's theorem for asymptotic densities of functions of Toeplitz matrices, or through an extension of said theorem to rates of functions, which we present in this article.

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@article{arxiv.1204.5757,
  title  = {Fermionic Markov Chains},
  author = {Mark Fannes and Jeroen Wouters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5757},
  year   = {2012}
}

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22 pages

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