Quantum Statistical Mechanics via Boundary Conditions. A Groupoid Approach to Quantum Spin Systems

Abstract

We use a groupoid model for the spin algebra to introduce boundary conditions on quantum spin systems via a Poisson point process representation. We can describe KMS states of quantum systems by means of a set of equations resembling the standard DLR equations of classical statistical mechanics. We introduce a notion of quantum specification which recovers the classical DLR measures in the particular case of classical interactions. Our results are in the same direction as those obtained recently by Cha, Naaijkens, and Nachtergaele, differently somehow from the predicted by Fannes and Werner.