@article{12911,
  abstract     = {This paper establishes new connections between many-body quantum systems, One-body Reduced Density Matrices Functional Theory (1RDMFT) and Optimal Transport (OT), by interpreting the problem of computing the ground-state energy of a finite-dimensional composite quantum system at positive temperature as a non-commutative entropy regularized Optimal Transport problem. We develop a new approach to fully characterize the dual-primal solutions in such non-commutative setting. The mathematical formalism is particularly relevant in quantum chemistry: numerical realizations of the many-electron ground-state energy can be computed via a non-commutative version of Sinkhorn algorithm. Our approach allows to prove convergence and robustness of this algorithm, which, to our best knowledge, were unknown even in the two marginal case. Our methods are based on a priori estimates in the dual problem, which we believe to be of independent interest. Finally, the above results are extended in 1RDMFT setting, where bosonic or fermionic symmetry conditions are enforced on the problem.},
  author       = {Feliciangeli, Dario and Gerolin, Augusto and Portinale, Lorenzo},
  issn         = {1096-0783},
  journal      = {Journal of Functional Analysis},
  number       = {4},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{A non-commutative entropic optimal transport approach to quantum composite systems at positive temperature}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.jfa.2023.109963},
  volume       = {285},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{8758,
  abstract     = {We consider various modeling levels for spatially homogeneous chemical reaction systems, namely the chemical master equation, the chemical Langevin dynamics, and the reaction-rate equation. Throughout we restrict our study to the case where the microscopic system satisfies the detailed-balance condition. The latter allows us to enrich the systems with a gradient structure, i.e. the evolution is given by a gradient-flow equation. We present the arising links between the associated gradient structures that are driven by the relative entropy of the detailed-balance steady state. The limit of large volumes is studied in the sense of evolutionary Γ-convergence of gradient flows. Moreover, we use the gradient structures to derive hybrid models for coupling different modeling levels.},
  author       = {Maas, Jan and Mielke, Alexander},
  issn         = {15729613},
  journal      = {Journal of Statistical Physics},
  number       = {6},
  pages        = {2257--2303},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Modeling of chemical reaction systems with detailed balance using gradient structures}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s10955-020-02663-4},
  volume       = {181},
  year         = {2020},
}

@article{7573,
  abstract     = {This paper deals with dynamical optimal transport metrics defined by spatial discretisation of the Benamou–Benamou formula for the Kantorovich metric . Such metrics appear naturally in discretisations of -gradient flow formulations for dissipative PDE. However, it has recently been shown that these metrics do not in general converge to , unless strong geometric constraints are imposed on the discrete mesh. In this paper we prove that, in a 1-dimensional periodic setting, discrete transport metrics converge to a limiting transport metric with a non-trivial effective mobility. This mobility depends sensitively on the geometry of the mesh and on the non-local mobility at the discrete level. Our result quantifies to what extent discrete transport can make use of microstructure in the mesh to reduce the cost of transport.},
  author       = {Gladbach, Peter and Kopfer, Eva and Maas, Jan and Portinale, Lorenzo},
  issn         = {00217824},
  journal      = {Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees},
  number       = {7},
  pages        = {204--234},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Homogenisation of one-dimensional discrete optimal transport}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.matpur.2020.02.008},
  volume       = {139},
  year         = {2020},
}

@article{6358,
  abstract     = {We study dynamical optimal transport metrics between density matricesassociated to symmetric Dirichlet forms on finite-dimensional C∗-algebras.  Our settingcovers  arbitrary  skew-derivations  and  it  provides  a  unified  framework  that  simultaneously  generalizes  recently  constructed  transport  metrics  for  Markov  chains,  Lindblad  equations,  and  the  Fermi  Ornstein–Uhlenbeck  semigroup.   We  develop  a  non-nommutative differential calculus that allows us to obtain non-commutative Ricci curvature  bounds,  logarithmic  Sobolev  inequalities,  transport-entropy  inequalities,  andspectral gap estimates.},
  author       = {Carlen, Eric A. and Maas, Jan},
  issn         = {15729613},
  journal      = {Journal of Statistical Physics},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {319--378},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Non-commutative calculus, optimal transport and functional inequalities  in dissipative quantum systems}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s10955-019-02434-w},
  volume       = {178},
  year         = {2020},
}

@article{73,
  abstract     = {We consider the space of probability measures on a discrete set X, endowed with a dynamical optimal transport metric. Given two probability measures supported in a subset Y⊆X, it is natural to ask whether they can be connected by a constant speed geodesic with support in Y at all times. Our main result answers this question affirmatively, under a suitable geometric condition on Y introduced in this paper. The proof relies on an extension result for subsolutions to discrete Hamilton-Jacobi equations, which is of independent interest.},
  author       = {Erbar, Matthias and Maas, Jan and Wirth, Melchior},
  issn         = {09442669},
  journal      = {Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations},
  number       = {1},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{On the geometry of geodesics in discrete optimal transport}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00526-018-1456-1},
  volume       = {58},
  year         = {2019},
}

