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Entropy and the quantum II : Arizona School of Analysis with Applications, March 15-19, 2010, University of Arizona
The goal of the Entropy and the Quantum schools has been to introduce young researchers to some of the exciting current topics in mathematical physics. These topics often involve analytic techniques that can easily be understood with a dose of physical intuition. In March of 2010, four beautiful lectures were delivered on the campus of the University of Arizona. They included Isoperimetric Inequalities for Eigenvalues of the Laplacian by Rafael Benguria, Universality of Wigner Random Matrices by Laszlo Erdos, Kinetic Theory and the Kac Master Equation by Michael Loss, and Localization in Disordered Media by Gunter Stolz. Additionally, there were talks by other senior scientists and a number of interesting presentations by junior participants. The range of the subjects and the enthusiasm of the young speakers are testimony to the great vitality of this field, and the lecture notes in this volume reflect well the diversity of this school.
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Brownian regularity for the Airy line ensemble, and multi-polymer watermelons in Brownian last passage percolation
The Airy line ensemble is a positive-integer indexed system of random continuous curves whose finite dimensional distributions are
given by the multi-line Airy process. It is a natural object in the KPZ universality class: for example, its highest curve, the
Airy
In this paper, we employ the Brownian Gibbs property to make a close
comparison between the Airy line ensemble’s curves after affine shift and Brownian bridge, proving the finiteness of a superpolynomially
growing moment bound on Radon-Nikodym derivatives.
We also determine the value of a natural exponent describing in Brownian last
passage percolation the decay in probability for the existence of several near geodesics that are disjoint except for their common
endpoints, where the notion of ‘near’ refers to a small deficit in scaled geodesic energy, with the parameter specifying this nearness
tending to zero.
To prove both results, we introduce a technique that may be useful elsewhere for finding upper bounds on
probabilities of events concerning random systems of curves enjoying the Brownian Gibbs property.
Several results in this article
play a fundamental role in a further study of Brownian last passage percolation in three companion papers (Hammond 2017a,b,c), in which
geodesic coalescence and geodesic energy profiles are investigated in scaled coordinates.
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Uniqueness of fat-tailed self-similar profiles to Smoluchowski’s coagulation equation for a perturbation of the constant kernel
This article is concerned with the question of uniqueness of self-similar profiles for Smoluchowski’s coagulation equation which
exhibit algebraic decay (fat tails) at infinity. More precisely, we consider a rate kernel
Establishing uniqueness of self-similar
profiles for Smoluchowski’s coagulation equation is generally considered to be a difficult problem which is still essentially open.
Concerning fat-tailed self-similar profiles this article actually gives the first uniqueness statement for a non-solvable kernel.
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Unifying Quantum and Classical Speed Limits on Observables
The presence of noise or the interaction with an environment can radically change the dynamics of observables of an otherwise isolated quantum system. We derive a bound on the speed with which observables of open quantum systems evolve. This speed limit is divided into Mandelstam and Tamm’s original time-energy uncertainty relation and a time-information uncertainty relation recently derived for classical systems, and both are generalized to open quantum systems. By isolating the coherent and incoherent contributions to the system dynamics, we derive both lower and upper bounds on the speed of evolution. We prove that the latter provide tighter limits on the speed of observables than previously known quantum speed limits and that a preferred basis of speed operators serves to completely characterize the observables that saturate the speed limits. We use this construction to bound the effect of incoherent dynamics on the evolution of an observable and to find the Hamiltonian that gives the maximum coherent speedup to the evolution of an observable.
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