Matrix Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation for Non-Abelian Charge Transport
Abstract
Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) bound the precision of currents by entropy production, but quantum transport of noncommuting (non-Abelian) charges challenges standard formulations because different charge components cannot be monitored within a single classical frame. We derive a process-level matrix TUR starting from the operational entropy production . Isolating the experimentally accessible bath divergence , we prove a fully nonlinear, saturable lower bound valid for arbitrary current vectors : , where the bound depends only on the transported-charge signal and the pre/post collision covariance matrices and . In the small-fluctuation regime , while beyond linear response it remains accurate. Numerical strong-coupling qubit collisions illustrate the bound and demonstrate near-saturation across broad parameter ranges using only local measurements on the bath probe.
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@article{arxiv.2512.24956,
title = {Matrix Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation for Non-Abelian Charge Transport},
author = {Domingos S. P. Salazar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.24956},
year = {2026}
}