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Flows of Renyi entropies

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-30 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate that the condensed matter quantum systems encompassing two reservoirs connected by a junction permit a natural definition of flows of conserved measures, Renyi entropies. Such flows are similar to the flows of physical conserved quantities such as charge and energy. We develop a perturbation technique that permits efficient computation of Renyi entropy flows and analyze second- and fourth order contributions. Second-order approximation was shown to correspond directly to the transition events in the system and thereby to posess a set of "intuitive" features. The analysis of fourth-order corrections reveals a more complicated picture: the "intuitive" relations do not hold anymore, and the corrections exhibit divergencies in low-temperature limit manifesting an intriguing non-analytical dependence of the flows on coupling strength in the limit of weak couplings and vanishing temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3537,
  title  = {Flows of Renyi entropies},
  author = {Yuli V. Nazarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3537},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages