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We consider the generalization of the Araki-Uhlmann formula for relative entropy to Petz-R\'enyi relative entropy. We compute this entropy for a free scalar field in the Minkowski wedge between the vacuum and a coherent state, as well as…

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The free analog of the pressure is introduced for multivariate noncommutative random variables and its Legendre transform is compared with Voiculescu's microstate free entropy.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Fumio Hiai

In our derivation of the second law of thermodynamics from the relation of adiabatic accessibility of equilibrium states we stressed the importance of being able to scale a system's size without changing its intrinsic properties. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Elliott H. Lieb , Jakob Yngvason

Boltzmann defined the entropy of a macroscopic system in a macrostate $M$ as the $\log$ of the volume of phase space (number of microstates) corresponding to $M$. This agrees with the thermodynamic entropy of Clausius when $M$ specifies the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Goldstein , Joel L. Lebowitz

We show that the operatorial framework developed by Voiculescu for free random variables can be extended to arrays of random variables whose multiplication imitates matricial multiplication. The associated notion of independence, called…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2010-05-28 Romuald Lenczewski

We define a classical probability analogue of Voiculescu's free entropy dimension that we shall call the classical probability entropy dimension of a probability measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$. We show that the classical probability entropy…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Guionnet , D. Shlyakhtenko

We study entropy and optimal transport theory in the free probabilistic setting motivated by the large-$n$ theory of random tuples of matrices. We define a new version of free entropy $\chi_{\operatorname{chron}}^{\mathcal{U}}$, which is…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-15 David Jekel

By proving that certain free stochastic differential equations have stationary solutions, we give a lower estimate on the microstates free entropy dimension of certain $n$-tuples $X_{1},...,X_{n}$: we show that Abstract. By proving that…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2008-07-03 D. Shlyakhtenko

D. Voiculescu [2] proved that a standard family of independent random unitary k by k matrices and a constant k by k unitary matrix is asymtotically free as k goes to infinity. This result was a key ingredient in Voiculescu's proof [3] that…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2008-02-05 Don Hadwin , Weihua Li , Junhao Shen

In ordinary Boltzmann-Gibbs thermostatistics, the relative entropy expression plays the role of generalized free energy, providing the difference between the off-equilibrium and equilibrium free energy terms associated with Boltzmann-Gibbs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 G. B. Bagci

The extension of thermodynamic principles to active matter remains a challenge due to the non-equilibrium nature inherent to active systems. In this study, we introduce a framework to assess entropy in our minimal macroscopic experiment…

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We find the microstates free entropy dimension of a large class of $L^{\infty}[0,1]$-circular operators, in the presence of a generator of the diagonal subalgebra.

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We prove a technical result, showing that the existence of a closable unbounded dual system in the sense of Voiculescu is equivalent to the finiteness of free Fisher information. This approach allows one to give a purely operator-algebraic…

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We show that the relative entropy between the reduced density matrix of the vacuum state in some region $A$ and that of an excited state created by a unitary operator localized at a small distance $\ell$ of a boundary point $p$ is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Stefan Hollands

In this paper we study multi-matrix models whose potentials are perturbations of the quadratic potential associated with independent GUE random matrices. More precisely, we compute the free energy and the expectation of the trace of…

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Voiculescu's random matrix model for freeness is extended to the non-Gaussian case and also the case of constant block diagonal matrices. Thus we are able to investigate free products of free group factors with matrix algebras and with the…

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A lower estimate of the orbital free entropy $\chi_\mathrm{orb}$ under unitary conjugation is proved, and it together with Voiculescu's observation shows that the conjectural exact formula relating $\chi_\mathrm{orb}$ to the free entropy…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Yoshimichi Ueda

Relative entropy serves as a fundamental measure of state distinguishability in both quantum information theory and relativistic quantum field theory. Despite its conceptual importance, however, explicit computations of relative entropy…

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The notion of a $*$-law or $*$-distribution in free probability is also known as the quantifier-free type in Farah, Hart, and Sherman's model theoretic framework for tracial von Neumann algebras. However, the full type can also be…

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