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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788632803321

Titolo

Entropy and the quantum : Arizona School of Analysis with Applications, March 16-20, 2009, University of Arizona / / Robert Sims, Daniel Ueltschi, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

0-8218-8208-2

0-8218-5853-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, ; 529 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

530.12

Soggetti

Quantum entropy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

These notes are motivated by the school Entropy and the Quantum that took place in Tucson, Arizona, on March 16-20, 2009."--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Preface --  List of Participants --  Outline of Quantum Mechanics --  1. The setting for quantum mechanics --  2. The Schrödinger equation --  3. Self-adjoint operators --  4. The role of Planck's constant --  5. Spin and statistics --  6. Fundamental structures of quantum mechanics --  Inequalities for Schrödinger Operators and Applications to the Stability of Matter Problem --  Trace Inequalities and Quantum Entropy: An Introductory Course -- 1. Introduction  -- 2. Operator convexity and monotonicity --  3. The joint convexity of certain operator functions -- 4. Projections onto *-subalgebras and convexity inequalities -- 5. Tensor products -- 6. Lieb's Concavity Theorem and related results -- 7. Lp norms for matrices and entropy inequalities  -- 8. Brascamp-Lieb type inequalities for traces -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Lieb-Robinson Bounds in Quantum Many-Body Physics -- Remarks on the Additivity Conjectures for Quantum Channels -- On the Static and Dynamical Collapse of White Dwarfs --