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math-ph2022

A trace inequality of Ando, Hiai and Okubo and a monotonicity property of the Golden-Thompson inequality

Eric A. Carlen, Elliott H. Lieb

The Golden-Thompson trace inequality which states that has proved to be very useful in quantum statistical mechanics. Golden used it to show that t…

math-ph2022★ 19 cited

Improved Lieb-Oxford bound on the indirect and exchange energies

Mathieu Lewin, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer

The Lieb-Oxford inequality provides a lower bound on the Coulomb energy of a classical system of identical charges only in terms of their one-particle density. We prove here a…

math-ph2020★ 1 cited

Analysis of a simple equation for the ground state of the Bose gas II: Monotonicity, Convexity and Condensate Fraction

Eric A. Carlen, Ian Jauslin, Elliott H. Lieb

In a recent paper we studied an equation (called the "simple equation") introduced by one of us in 1963 for an approximate correlation function associated to the ground state of an…

math-ph2019★ 21 cited

Universal Functionals in Density Functional Theory

Mathieu Lewin, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer

In this chapter we first review the Levy-Lieb functional, which gives the lowest kinetic and interaction energy that can be reached with all possible quantum states having a given…

math-ph2019★ 12 cited

Analysis of a simple equation for the ground state energy of the Bose gas

Eric Carlen, Ian Jauslin, Elliott H. Lieb

In 1963 a partial differential equation with a convolution non-linearity was introduced in connection with a quantum mechanical many-body problem, namely the gas of bosonic particl…

math-ph2019

Wehrl-type coherent state entropy inequalities for and its subgroup

Elliott H. Lieb, Jan Philip Solovej

We discuss the Wehrl-type entropy inequality conjecture for the group and for its subgroup (or affine group), their representations on , and th…

math-ph2019★ 40 cited

The Local Density Approximation in Density Functional Theory

Mathieu Lewin, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer

We give the first mathematically rigorous justification of the Local Density Approximation in Density Functional Theory. We provide a quantitative estimate on the difference betwee…

math-ph2019★ 18 cited

Divergence of the effective mass of a polaron in the strong coupling limit

Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer

We consider the Fröhlich model of a polaron, and show that its effective mass diverges in the strong coupling limit.

math-ph2018★ 5 cited

Periodic energy minimizers for a one-dimensional liquid drop model

Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb

We reprove a result by Ren and Wei concerning the periodicity of minimizers of a one-dimensional liquid drop model in the neutral case. Our proof works for general boundary conditi…

math-ph2018★ 32 cited

Inequalities for quantum divergences and the Audenaert-Datta conjecture

Eric A. Carlen, Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb

Given two density matrices and , there are a number of different expressions that reduce to the -Rényi relative entropy of with respect to in the classical case;…

math-ph2017

Some trace inequalities for exponential and logarithmic functions

Eric A. Carlen, Elliott H. Lieb

Consider a function of pairs of positive matrices with values in the positive matrices such that whenever and commute Our first main result gives…

math-ph2017★ 4 cited

Nematic liquid crystal phase in a system of interacting dimers and monomers

Ian Jauslin, Elliott H. Lieb

We consider a monomer-dimer system with a strong attractive dimer-dimer interaction that favors alignment. In 1979, Heilmann and Lieb conjectured that this model should exhibit a n…

math-ph2017★ 37 cited

Statistical Mechanics of the Uniform Electron Gas

Mathieu Lewin, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer

In this paper we define and study the classical Uniform Electron Gas (UEG), a system of infinitely many electrons whose density is constant everywhere in space. The UEG is defined…

math-ph2017★ 11 cited

Norms of quantum Gaussian multi-mode channels

Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb

We compute the norm of a general Gaussian gauge-covariant multi-mode channel for any , where is a Schatten space. As…

math-ph2017★ 19 cited

Local incompressibility estimates for the Laughlin phase

Elliott Lieb, Nicolas Rougerie, Jakob Yngvason

We prove sharp density upper bounds on optimal length-scales for the ground states of classical 2D Coulomb systems and generalizations thereof. Our method is new, based on an auxil…

math-ph2016

Rigidity of the Laughlin liquid

Elliott Lieb, Nicolas Rougerie, Jakob Yngvason

We consider general N-particle wave functions that have the form of a product of the Laughlin state with filling factor and an analytic function of the N variables. This i…

math-ph2016★ 10 cited

On a Quantum Entropy Power Inequality of Audenaert, Datta and Ozols

Eric A. Carlen, Elliott H. Lieb, Michael Loss

We give a short proof of a recent inequality of Audenaert, Datta and Ozols, and determine cases of equality.

math-ph2015★ 12 cited

A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions

Alessandro Giuliani, Ian Jauslin, Elliott H. Lieb

We consider the monomer-dimer partition function on arbitrary finite planar graphs and arbitrary monomer and dimer weights, with the restriction that the only non-zero monomer weig…

math-ph2015★ 19 cited

Proof of the Wehrl-type Entropy Conjecture for Symmmetric SU(N) Coherent States

Elliott H. Lieb, Jan Philip Solovej

The Wehrl entropy conjecture for coherent (highest weight) states in representations of the Heisenberg group, which was proved in 1978 and recently extended by us to the group $SU(…

math-ph2015

A compactness lemma and its application to the existence of minimizers for the liquid drop model

Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb

The ancient Gamow liquid drop model of nuclear energies has had a renewed life as an interesting problem in the calculus of variations: Find a set with given…

math-ph2014

Ground state energy of large polaron systems

Rafael D. Benguria, Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb

The last unsolved problem about the many-polaron system, in the Pekar-Tomasevich approximation, is the case of bosons with the electron-electron Coulomb repulsion of strength exact…

math-ph2014

Some Operator and Trace Function Convexity Theorems

Eric A. Carlen, Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb

We consider convex trace functions where and are positive matrices and ask when these functions are convex or conca…

math-ph2014★ 46 cited

Improved Lieb-Oxford exchange-correlation inequality with gradient correction

Mathieu Lewin, Elliott H. Lieb

We prove a Lieb-Oxford-type inequality on the indirect part of the Coulomb energy of a general many-particle quantum state, with a lower constant than the original statement but in…

math-ph2014★ 17 cited

Entropy Meters and the Entropy of Non-extensive Systems

Elliott H. Lieb, Jakob Yngvason

In our derivation of the second law of thermodynamics from the relation of adiabatic accessibility of equilibrium states we stressed the importance of being able to scale a system'…