München 2009 – scientific programme

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MP: Fachverband Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik

MP 1: Quanten- Information, Komplexität

MP 1.2: Talk

Monday, March 9, 2009, 17:35–17:55, M010

The algebra of Grassmann canonical anti-commutation relations and its application to fermionic systems — •Dirk-Michael Schlingemann, Michael Keyl, and Lorenzo Campos Venuti — ISI Foundation Torino, Quantum information group

The basic constituents of the matter that surrounds us in daily life are fermions. Therefore it is needless to say that theoretical investigation of fermion systems play an essential role in almost all areas of quantum physics. A particular class of states of fermion systems are quasi-free states. On one hand, this class of states can be treated analytically even for very large systems, on the other hand, these states are complex enough to describe ground states of interacting spin chain systems.

We present an approach to non-commutative phase space which allows to analyze quasi-free states on the CAR algebra in analogy to quasi-free states on the CCR algebra. The used mathematical tools are based on the Grassmann algebra of canonical anti-commutation relations (GAR algebra) which is given by the twisted tensor product of a Grassmann and a CAR algebra.

As a new application, the corresponding theory provides an elegant tool for calculating the fidelity of two quasi-free fermionic states which is needed for the study of entanglement distillation within fermionic systems.