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We address the following inverse problem in quantum statistical physics: does the quantum free energy (von Neumann entropy + kinetic energy) admit a unique minimizer among the density operators having a given local density $n(x)$? We give a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-29 Florian Méhats , Olivier Pinaud

We study dynamics of a locally conserved energy in ergodic, local many-body quantum systems on a lattice with no additional symmetry. The resulting dynamics is well approximated by a coarse grained, classical linear functional diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-13 Tom Banks , Andrew Lucas

In this work we focus on a recently introduced method [1] to construct the external potential $v$ that, for a given initial state, produces a prescribed time-dependent density in an interacting quantum many-body system. We show how this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-12 S. E. B. Nielsen , M. Ruggenthaler , R. van Leeuwen

We determine the minimum Wehrl entropy among the quantum states with a given von Neumann entropy, and prove that it is achieved by thermal Gaussian states. This result determines the relation between the von Neumann and the Wehrl entropies.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Giacomo De Palma

It is observed that the entropy reduction (the information gain in the initial terminology) of an efficient (ideal or pure) quantum measurement coincides with the generalized quantum mutual information of a q-c channel mapping an a priori…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. E. Shirokov

The paper analyzes the entropy of a system composed by non-interacting and indistinguishable particles whose quantum state numbers are modelled as independent and identically distributed classical random variables. The crucial observation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-18 Arnaldo Spalvieri

Explaining quantum many-body dynamics is a long-held goal of physics. A rigorous operator algebraic theory of dynamics in locally interacting systems in any dimension is provided here in terms of time-dependent equilibrium (Gibbs)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-08 Berislav Buča

Discrete formulations of (quantum) gravity in four spacetime dimensions build space out of tetrahedra. We investigate a statistical mechanical system of tetrahedra from a many-body point of view based on non-local, combinatorial gluing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-16 Goffredo Chirco , Isha Kotecha , Daniele Oriti

The quantum entropy-typical subspace theory is specified. It is shown that any mixed state with von Neumann entropy less than h can be preserved approximately by the entropy-typical subspace with entropy= h. This result implies an universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Jingliang Gao , Yanbo Yang

The entropy accumulation theorem states that the smooth min-entropy of an $n$-partite system $A = (A_1, \ldots, A_n)$ is lower-bounded by the sum of the von Neumann entropies of suitably chosen conditional states up to corrections that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Frédéric Dupuis , Omar Fawzi

Entropy and free energy are central concepts in both statistical physics and information theory, with quantum and classical facets. In mathematics these concepts appear quite often in different contexts (dynamical systems, probability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Zied Ammari , Michele Correggi , Marco Falconi , Raphaël Gautier

Quantum Brownian motion model is a typical model in the study of nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics. Entropy is one of the most fundamental physical concepts in thermodynamics. In this work, by solving the quantum Langevin equation, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tian Qiu , H. T. Quan

The Von Neumann entropy of reduced states is a measure of bipartite entanglement. Despite its name, the entanglement entropy cannot by itself be used as a resource for creating thermodynamic heat flows. In order to extract heat from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Lisa Lenstra , Jasper van Wezel

We investigate entropy transport for universal scaling phenomena in closed quantum many-body systems far from equilibrium. From spatially resolved experimental data of a spinor Bose gas, we demonstrate that entropy decreases on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-03 J. Marijan , H. Strobel , M. K. Oberthaler , J. Berges

The entropy shows an unavoidable tendency of disorder in thermostatistics according to the second thermodynamics law. This provides a minimization entropy principle for quantum thermostatistics with the von Neumann entropy and nonextensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 M. X. Luo , X. Wang

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing quantum free energies under the constraint that the density of particles is fixed at each point of Rd, for any d $\ge$ 1. We are more particularly interested in the characterization of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Romain Duboscq , Olivier Pinaud

I show that non-decreasing entropy provides a necessary and sufficient condition to convert the state of a physical system into a different state by a reversible transformation that acts on the system of interest and a further "catalyst"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Henrik Wilming

We propose a series of quantum algorithms for computing a wide range of quantum entropies and distances, including the von Neumann entropy, quantum R\'{e}nyi entropy, trace distance, and fidelity. The proposed algorithms significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Qisheng Wang , Ji Guan , Junyi Liu , Zhicheng Zhang , Mingsheng Ying

We use rigorous non-equilibrium thermodynamic arguments to prove (i) the residual entropy of any system is bounded below by the experimentally (calorimetrically) determined absolute temperature entropy, which itself is bounded below by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-13 P. D. Gujrati

Using arguments built on ergodicity, we derive an analytical expression for the Renyi entanglement entropies corresponding to the finite-energy density eigenstates of chaotic many-body Hamiltonians. The expression is a universal function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-12 Tsung-Cheng Lu , Tarun Grover