Probability Bracket Notation, Wick-Matsubara Relation, Density Operators, and Microscopic Probability Modeling

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Main Author: Wang, Xing M.
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contents Following the Dirac vector bracket notation (VBN), we proposed the probability bracket notation (PBN) in our previous paper. We mentioned that under the special Wick rotation (imaginary time), a stationary Schrodinger equation in the Hilbert space transforms into the master equation of a microscopic probabilistic process (MPP) in the probability space. In this article, we first study the MPP of the system of a single particle, we show that the energy expectation of the MPP eventually approaches the lowest energy level in its initial condition and its von Neumann entropy finally vanishes. Then we explore the MPP for the quantum system of identical particles in the Fock space, we recover the expected occupation number of particles and the grand partition function in quantum statistics by connecting time with temperature (the Wick-Matsubara relation). We also reproduce the internal energy of an ideal gas in thermodynamics by using the relation. To address the entropy issue and relate the PBN with research topics of statistics in the literature, we express the density operators and the von Neumann entropy in the probability space by using the PBN. The Wick-Matsubara relation plus the PBN might provide a new way of microscopic probability modeling.
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spellingShingle Probability Bracket Notation, Wick-Matsubara Relation, Density Operators, and Microscopic Probability Modeling
Wang, Xing M.
Probability
Mathematical Physics
G.3, J.2, H.3.3
Following the Dirac vector bracket notation (VBN), we proposed the probability bracket notation (PBN) in our previous paper. We mentioned that under the special Wick rotation (imaginary time), a stationary Schrodinger equation in the Hilbert space transforms into the master equation of a microscopic probabilistic process (MPP) in the probability space. In this article, we first study the MPP of the system of a single particle, we show that the energy expectation of the MPP eventually approaches the lowest energy level in its initial condition and its von Neumann entropy finally vanishes. Then we explore the MPP for the quantum system of identical particles in the Fock space, we recover the expected occupation number of particles and the grand partition function in quantum statistics by connecting time with temperature (the Wick-Matsubara relation). We also reproduce the internal energy of an ideal gas in thermodynamics by using the relation. To address the entropy issue and relate the PBN with research topics of statistics in the literature, we express the density operators and the von Neumann entropy in the probability space by using the PBN. The Wick-Matsubara relation plus the PBN might provide a new way of microscopic probability modeling.
title Probability Bracket Notation, Wick-Matsubara Relation, Density Operators, and Microscopic Probability Modeling
topic Probability
Mathematical Physics
G.3, J.2, H.3.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1295