C*-Algebras and Quantum Gibbs States

MAP5001 - C*-Algebras and Quantum Gibbs States (At USP catalog - In Portuguese)

Teaching Assistant: Lucas Affonso

Papers used by the students

- On the equivalence between KMS-states and equilibrium states for classical systems. CMP 1977. Aizenman, Goldstein, Gruber, Lebowitz, Martin. (Thiago Brevidelli Garcia and Guilherme de Sousa Sobreira)

- On quantum statistical mechanics of non-Hamiltonian systems. RMP 1972. Kossakowski (Pingao Sun)

- Variational principles for spectral radius of weighted endomorphisms of C(X,D). Trans. Amer. Math. 2020. B. Kwaśniewski and A. Lebedev. (Ivan Granados)

- The Complete Set of Infinite Volume Ground States for Kitaev’s Abelian Quantum Double Models. CMP 2018. Matthew Cha, Pieter Naaijkens & Bruno Nachtergaele. (Henrique Corsini e João Rodrigues).

- Equilibria when the temperature goes to zero. 2023. Klaus Thomsen (Gabriel Guimarães)

- Low Temperature Phase Diagrams of Fermionic Lattice Systems. CMP 2000. C. Borgs & R. Kotecký. (Kelvyn Welsch)


Googlegroups of this course.

Bibliography

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11. The Complete Set of Infinite Volume Ground States for Kitaev’s Abelian Quantum Double Models Matthew Cha, Pieter Naaijkens & Bruno Nachtergaele

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21. A. Sims. Hausdorff étale groupoids and their C*-algebras, in “Operator algebras and dynamics: groupoids, crossed products and Rokhlin dimension” (F. Perera, Ed.) in Advanced Courses in Mathematics. CRM Barcelona, Birkhäuser, (2020).

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