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arXiv:1811.05619 · Journal of High Energy Physics

Perturbation theory for the logarithm of a positive operator

Nima Lashkari, Hong Liu, Srivatsan Rajagopal

Published Nov 16, 2023• 11 citations
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Abstract

Abstract In various contexts in mathematical physics, such as out-of-equilibrium physics and the asymptotic information theory of many-body quantum systems, one needs to compute the logarithm of a positive unbounded operator. Examples include the von Neumann entropy of a density matrix and the flow of operators with the modular Hamiltonian in the Tomita-Takesaki theory. Often, one encounters the situation where the operator under consideration, which we denote by ∆, can be related by a perturbative series to another operator ∆0, whose logarithm is known. We set up a perturbation theory for the logarithm log ∆. It turns out that the terms in the series possess a remarkable algebraic structure, which enables us to write them in the form of nested commutators plus some “contact terms”.

DOI
10.1007/jhep11(2023)097

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