The many-body Hamiltonians and other fermionic physical observables are expressed in terms of fermionic creation and annihilation operators, which form the algebra of canonical anti-commutation relations (CAR). In this work we use a canonical isomorphism between CAR and
M2∞ algebras to derive analytic matrix representations of many-fermion operators. Code-lines implementing these matrix representations are supplied and Hubbard-type Hamiltonians are worked out explicitly.
CAR on Fock spacesThis chapter is devoted to the study of Fock representations of the canonical anticommutation relations, a basic tool of quantum many-body theory and quantum field theory.It is parallel to Chap. 9, where Fock CCR representations were studied.The basic framework is almost the same as in Chap.9. Throughout this chapter Z is a Hilbert space, called the one-particle space.We will consider the Fock CAR representation acting on the fermionic Fock space Γ a (Z).As in Sect.1.3, we introduce the space Y = Re(Z ⊕ Z) := {(z, z) : z ∈ Z}, which will serve as the dual phase space of our system.Recall that in the bosonic case we equipped Y with the structure of the Kähler space consisting of the anti-involution j, the Euclidean scalar product • and the symplectic form ω: j(z, z) := (iz, iz), (13.1) (z, z) • (w, w) := 2Re(z|w), (13.2) (z, z)•ω(w, w) := 2Im(z|w) = -(z, z) • j(w, w).(13.3)In our presentation of the fermionic case, we will need the Kähler anti-involution j.The symplectic form ω will not be used.Instead of the scalar product (13.2) we will use another scalar product,Again we will avoid identifing Z with Y. CY is identified with Z ⊕ Z by the mapY # , the space dual to Y, is canonically identified with Re(Z ⊕ Z) by using the scalar product (9.2), and CY # is identified with Z ⊕ Z. Fock CAR representationConsider the fermionic Fock space Γ a (Z).Recall that, for z ∈ Z, a * (z), resp.a(z) denote the corresponding creation, resp.annihilation operators defined in Sect.3.4.
Let
H1 be a finite dimensional complex Hilbert space. Let
ψ↦Z(ψ) be a canonical anti-commutation relations (CAR) field over
H1 acting irreducibly on a Hilbert space
K. The
∗-algebra
AH1 generated by the
Z(ψ),
ψ∈H1, is simply all operators on
K. However, the CAR field endows
AH1 with additional structure, and we are concerned with quantum operations acting in harmony with this structure. In particular, there is a "gauge" automorphism group generated by "second quantizing''
ψ↦eitψ. The fixed point algebra of the gauge group,
GH1, is a sub-algebra of
AH1 studied by Araki and Wyss. It contains the density matrices of an important class of states, the {\em gauge invariant Gaussian states},
SGIG.
Our focus is on semigroups
{etL}t≥0 of quantum operations on
AH1 that map
SGIG into itself. Each
etL is one-to-one, and our first main result is a structure theorem for such quantum operations on
GH1 that map
SGIG into itself.
We apply this to study semigroups of quantum operations on
GH1 that map
SGIG into itself. Our second main result is a structure theorem showing that they are parameterized by pairs
(G,A) where
G is a contraction semigroup generator on
H1, and
0≤A≤−G−G∗. We then show that each of these semigroups has a natural extension to the full CAR algebra
AH1. Further results are obtained under further assumptions on the pair
(G,A).
Abstract The relative entropy of certain states on the algebra of canonical anticommutation relations (CAR) is studied in the present work. The CAR algebra is used to describe fermionic degrees of freedom in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. The states for which the relative entropy is investigated are multi-excitation states (similar to multi-particle states) with respect to KMS states defined with respect to a time-evolution induced by a unitary dynamical group on the one-particle Hilbert space of the CAR algebra. If the KMS state is quasifree, the relative entropy of multi-excitation states can be explicitly calculated in terms of 2-point functions, which are defined entirely by the one-particle Hilbert space defining the CAR algebra and the Hamilton operator of the dynamical group on the one-particle Hilbert space. This applies also in the case that the one-particle Hilbert space Hamilton operator has a continuous spectrum so that the relative entropy of multi-excitation states cannot be defined in terms of von Neumann entropies. The results obtained here for the relative entropy of multi-excitation states on the CAR algebra can be viewed as counterparts of results for the relative entropy of coherent states on the algebra of canonical commutation relations which have appeared recently. It turns out to be useful to employ the setting of a self-dual CAR algebra introduced by Araki.
We present an approach to a noncommutativelike phase space which allows to analyze quasifree states on the algebra of canonical anti-commutation relations (CAR) in analogy to quasifree states on the algebra of canonical commutation relations (CCR). The used mathematical tools are based on a new algebraic structure the “Grassmann algebra of canonical anticommutation relations” (GAR algebra) which is given by the twisted tensor product of a Grassmann and a CAR algebra. As a new application, the corresponding theory provides an elegant tool for calculating the fidelity of two quasifree fermionic states which is needed for the study of entanglement distillation within fermionic systems.
Abstract The functional integral representation of the density matrix at thermal equilibrium in non-relativistic quantum mechanics (QM) with many degrees of freedom, in the grand canonical formulation is introduced. In QM, Hamiltonians H(p,q) can be also expressed in terms of creation and annihilation operators, a method adapted to the study of perturbed harmonic oscillators. In the holomorphic formalism, quantum operators act by multiplication and differentiation on a vector space of analytic functions. Alternatively, they can also be represented by kernels, functions of complex variables that correspond in the classical limit to a complex parametrization of phase space. The formalism is adapted to the description of many-body boson systems. To this formalism corresponds a path integral representation of the density matrix at thermal equilibrium, where paths belong to complex spaces, instead of the more usual position–momentum phase space. A parallel formalism can be set up to describe systems with many fermion degrees of freedom, with Grassmann variables replacing complex variables. Both formalisms can be generalized to quantum gases of Bose and Fermi particles in the grand canonical formulation. Field integral representations of the corresponding quantum partition functions are derived.