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Equation 62 · Part 8 · The Entry a Relabeling Cannot Write

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ΔEΛ(ρ)=Tr[ρ(IS⊗HB+HSB)]\Delta E_\Lambda(\rho) = \mathrm{Tr}[\rho(I_S \otimes H_B + H_{SB})]
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What this part means

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

Its job in the formula

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

The passage around this formula

an exact operator identity, not an approximation valid in some limit: the ledger for a system-only description of a system-plus-bath is precisely the bath’s own energy plus the coupling energy between the two, nothing more and nothing less. Δ\Delta EΛ(ρ)E_\Lambda(\rho) = Tr\mathrm{Tr}[ρ(IS⊗HB+HSB)\rho(I_S \otimes H_B + H_{SB})] for any joint state ρ\rho .

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Learn the underlying idea

Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.

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