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Quantum Ising KMS states have diagonal local densities
Statement
Assume Countable Choice and the finite-matrix C*-identity for the local spin algebras. Let be a -KMS state, with , for the thermodynamic dynamics of Diagonal quantum Ising interaction and classical conditional energies in the full quasi-local matrix algebra. For every finite region and any two distinct product-basis configurations , the local matrix unit satisfies . Consequently the density matrix representing on each finite local matrix algebra is diagonal in the joint eigenbasis of the matrices .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, the finite-matrix C*-identity, the diagonal Ising dynamics, a -KMS state for it in the convention of Physical-time KMS strip equilibrium condition, and the closed-strip hypotheses below.
Countable Choice is the axiom that every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()); it is inherited through the thermodynamic dynamics used here.
Finite matrix C-star algebra and density-state duality supplies the C*-identity for each finite local matrix algebra and the representation of its positive functionals by density matrices, under its exact finite-dimensional hypotheses.
Exact local dynamics for commuting diagonal interactions states that every local diagonal projection is fixed by .
Physical-time KMS strip equilibrium condition says the KMS correlation for any pair is bounded and continuous on the closed strip, holomorphic inside, and has lower and upper boundaries and .
Bounded KMS strip norm and zero-edge uniqueness says two bounded continuous functions holomorphic inside the same strip with the same lower boundary agree on the whole strip.
Proof
Given: [F1]–[F3], , and the model's finite local matrix algebras.
Let be any local rank-one diagonal projection and any local observable. By [F1], , so the lower boundary of the KMS function for the pair is the constant . The constant function with that value is bounded, continuous, holomorphic, and has the same lower boundary. By [F3] it equals the KMS function. Evaluating the upper boundary in [F2] at gives .
Fix a finite and a product-basis matrix unit with . Take , the diagonal rank-one projection onto the basis vector . Matrix-unit multiplication gives and . Applying step 1.1 with yields . By [A2], the restricted positive functional has a unique density matrix whose off-diagonal entries are precisely these matrix-unit expectations, so the finite local density matrix is diagonal.
Depends on
Physical-time KMS strip equilibrium condition
Diagonal quantum Ising interaction and classical conditional energies
Exact local dynamics for commuting diagonal interactions
Bounded KMS strip norm and zero-edge uniqueness
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Finite matrix C-star algebra and density-state duality
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Sources
- Pieter Naaijkens, Quantum Spin Systems on Infinite Lattices, extended and corrected lecture notes, arXiv:1311.2717v2
- David Ruelle, Topics in Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Operator Algebras, complete lecture notes, arXiv:math-ph/0107009v1
- Sascha Friedli and Yvan Velenik, Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems: A Concrete Mathematical Introduction, complete author PDF, revised 2017
- Junior Seminar in Mathematical Physics, Proofs from the Book: Ising, DLR, Dobrushin and Peierls sections, complete seminar notes