Journal of Mathematical Physics
Tsallis entropies and matrix trace inequalities in quantum statistical mechanics
Natália Bebiano, João da Providência, João P. da Providência
Abstract
Extensions of trace inequalities arising in statistical mechanics are derived in a straightforward and unified way from a variational characterization of the Tsallis entropy. Namely, one-parameter extension of the thermodynamic inequality is presented and its equivalence to a generalized Peierls–Bogoliubov inequality is stated, in the sense that one may be obtained from the other, and vice versa.