Thermodynamical aspects of fermions in external electromagnetic fields
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| author | Brunetti, Romeo Fredenhagen, Klaus Pinamonti, Nicola |
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| contents | The thermodynamics of Dirac fields under the influence of external electromagnetic fields is studied. For perturbations which act only for finite time, the influence of the perturbation can be described by an automorphism which can be unitarily implemented in the GNS representations of KMS states, a result long known for the Fock representation. For time-independent perturbations, however, the time evolution cannot be implemented in typical cases, so the standard methods of quantum statistical mechanics do not apply. Instead we show that a smooth switching on of the external potential allows a comparison of the free and the perturbed time evolution, and approach to equilibrium, a possible existence of non-equilibrium stationary states (NESS) and Araki's relative entropy can be investigated. As a byproduct, we find an explicit formula for the relative entropy of gauge invariant quasi-free states. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermodynamical aspects of fermions in external electromagnetic fields Brunetti, Romeo Fredenhagen, Klaus Pinamonti, Nicola Mathematical Physics High Energy Physics - Theory The thermodynamics of Dirac fields under the influence of external electromagnetic fields is studied. For perturbations which act only for finite time, the influence of the perturbation can be described by an automorphism which can be unitarily implemented in the GNS representations of KMS states, a result long known for the Fock representation. For time-independent perturbations, however, the time evolution cannot be implemented in typical cases, so the standard methods of quantum statistical mechanics do not apply. Instead we show that a smooth switching on of the external potential allows a comparison of the free and the perturbed time evolution, and approach to equilibrium, a possible existence of non-equilibrium stationary states (NESS) and Araki's relative entropy can be investigated. As a byproduct, we find an explicit formula for the relative entropy of gauge invariant quasi-free states. |
| title | Thermodynamical aspects of fermions in external electromagnetic fields |
| topic | Mathematical Physics High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22413 |