Conditional Expectations Relative to a Product State and the Corresponding Standard Potentials

Abstract

For a lattice system with a finite number of Fermions and spins on each lattice point, conditional expectations relative to an even product state (such as Fermion Fock vacuum) are introduced and the corresponding standard potential for any given dynamics, or more generally for any given time derivative (at time 0) of strictly local operators, is defined, with the case of the tracial state previously treated as a special case. The standard potentials of a given time derivative relative to different product states are necessarily different but they are shown to give the same set of equilibrium states, where one can compare states satisfying the variational principle (for translation invariant states) or the local thermodynamical stability or the Gibbs condition, all in terms of the standard potential relative to different even product states.