Robert Alicki and Mark Fannes
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198504009
- eISBN:
- 9780191708503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198504009.003.0007
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
This chapter defines and characterizes various degrees of ergodicity — both for classical and quantum systems — in terms of the Hilbert space formalism, Koopman formalism for classical systems, and ...
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This chapter defines and characterizes various degrees of ergodicity — both for classical and quantum systems — in terms of the Hilbert space formalism, Koopman formalism for classical systems, and GNS-representation for quantum systems. It presents mixing and asymptotic Abelianness. It then discusses a number of examples with non-trivial algebraic structures: quasi-free Fermionic automorphisms, highly anti-commutative systems, and Powers–Price shifts. It is shown that under certain ergodic assumptions the fluctuations around ergodic means can be modelled by Bose fields in quasi-free states (Gaussian distributions), the other extreme cases lead to a free probability scheme with semi-circular distributions. Expanding maps and Lyapunov exponents for classical dynamics are briefly discussed and a possible quantum analog, horocyclic actions, is presented for a quantum cat map.Less
This chapter defines and characterizes various degrees of ergodicity — both for classical and quantum systems — in terms of the Hilbert space formalism, Koopman formalism for classical systems, and GNS-representation for quantum systems. It presents mixing and asymptotic Abelianness. It then discusses a number of examples with non-trivial algebraic structures: quasi-free Fermionic automorphisms, highly anti-commutative systems, and Powers–Price shifts. It is shown that under certain ergodic assumptions the fluctuations around ergodic means can be modelled by Bose fields in quasi-free states (Gaussian distributions), the other extreme cases lead to a free probability scheme with semi-circular distributions. Expanding maps and Lyapunov exponents for classical dynamics are briefly discussed and a possible quantum analog, horocyclic actions, is presented for a quantum cat map.
Alice Guionnet
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198797319
- eISBN:
- 9780191838774
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198797319.003.0003
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
Free probability was introduced by D. Voiculescu as a theory of noncommutative random variables (similar to integration theory) equipped with a notion of freeness very similar to independence. In ...
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Free probability was introduced by D. Voiculescu as a theory of noncommutative random variables (similar to integration theory) equipped with a notion of freeness very similar to independence. In fact, it is possible in this framework to define the natural ‘free’ counterpart of the central limit theorem, Gaussian distribution, Brownian motion, stochastic differential calculus, entropy, etc. It also appears as the natural setup for studying large random matrices as their size goes to infinity and hence is central in the study of random matrices as their size go to infinity. In this chapter the free probability framework is introduced, and it is shown how it naturally shows up in the random matrices asymptotics via the so-called ‘asymptotic freeness’. The connection with combinatorics and the enumeration of planar maps, including loop models, are discussed.Less
Free probability was introduced by D. Voiculescu as a theory of noncommutative random variables (similar to integration theory) equipped with a notion of freeness very similar to independence. In fact, it is possible in this framework to define the natural ‘free’ counterpart of the central limit theorem, Gaussian distribution, Brownian motion, stochastic differential calculus, entropy, etc. It also appears as the natural setup for studying large random matrices as their size goes to infinity and hence is central in the study of random matrices as their size go to infinity. In this chapter the free probability framework is introduced, and it is shown how it naturally shows up in the random matrices asymptotics via the so-called ‘asymptotic freeness’. The connection with combinatorics and the enumeration of planar maps, including loop models, are discussed.
Grégory Schehr, Alexander Altland, Yan V. Fyodorov, Neil O'Connell, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198797319
- eISBN:
- 9780191838774
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198797319.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
The field of stochastic processes and random matrix theory (RMT) has been a rapidly evolving subject during the past fifteen years where the continuous development and discovery of new tools, ...
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The field of stochastic processes and random matrix theory (RMT) has been a rapidly evolving subject during the past fifteen years where the continuous development and discovery of new tools, connections, and ideas have led to an avalanche of new results. These breakthroughs have been made possible thanks, to a large extent, to the recent development of various new techniques in RMT. Matrix models have been playing an important role in theoretical physics for a long time and they are currently also a very active domain of research in mathematics. An emblematic example of these recent advances concerns the theory of growth phenomena in the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) universality class where the joint efforts of physicists and mathematicians during the past twenty years have unveiled the beautiful connections between this fundamental problem of statistical mechanics and the theory of random matrices, namely the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue of certain ensemble of random matrices. These chapters not only cover this topic in detail but also present more recent developments that have emerged from these discoveries, for instance in the context of low-dimensional heat transport (on the physics side) or in the context of integrable probability (on the mathematical side).Less
The field of stochastic processes and random matrix theory (RMT) has been a rapidly evolving subject during the past fifteen years where the continuous development and discovery of new tools, connections, and ideas have led to an avalanche of new results. These breakthroughs have been made possible thanks, to a large extent, to the recent development of various new techniques in RMT. Matrix models have been playing an important role in theoretical physics for a long time and they are currently also a very active domain of research in mathematics. An emblematic example of these recent advances concerns the theory of growth phenomena in the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) universality class where the joint efforts of physicists and mathematicians during the past twenty years have unveiled the beautiful connections between this fundamental problem of statistical mechanics and the theory of random matrices, namely the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue of certain ensemble of random matrices. These chapters not only cover this topic in detail but also present more recent developments that have emerged from these discoveries, for instance in the context of low-dimensional heat transport (on the physics side) or in the context of integrable probability (on the mathematical side).
