Generalized Pauli constraints in large systems: the Pauli principle dominates

Abstract

Lately, there has been a renewed interest in fermionic 1-body reduced density matrices and their restrictions beyond the Pauli principle. These restrictions are usually quantified using the polytope of allowed, ordered eigenvalues of such matrices. Here, we prove this polytope's volume rapidly approaches the volume predicted by the Pauli principle as the dimension of the 1-body space grows, and that additional corrections, caused by generalized Pauli constraints, are of much lower order unless the number of fermions is small. Indeed, we argue the generalized constraints are most restrictive in (effective) few-fermion settings with low Hilbert space dimension.

arXiv commentPublished version; 37 pages, 5 figures

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