Hilbert-Schmidt Estimates for Fermionic 2-Body Operators
Martin Ravn Christiansen
Abstract
We prove that the 2-body operator $γ_2^Ψ$ of a fermionic $N$-particle state $Ψ$ obeys $||γ_2^Ψ||_{HS} \leq \sqrt{5} N$, which complements the bound of Yang that $||γ_2^Ψ||_{op} \leq N$. This estimate furthermore resolves a conjecture of Carlen-Lieb-Reuvers (arXiv:1403.3816) concerning the entropy of the normalized 2-body operator. We also prove that the Hilbert-Schmidt norm of the truncated 2-body operator $γ_2^{Ψ,T}$ obeys the inequality $||γ_2^{Ψ,T}||_{HS} \leq \sqrt{5 N \, \mathrm{tr}(γ_1^Ψ(1 - γ_1^Ψ))}$.
