 Thermal trace (source code)

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= Thermal trace
{title2=$Z(\beta)=\operatorname{Tr}e^{-\beta H}$}

The <trace> of imaginary-time evolution is the <canonical partition function> of a quantum system. In a coordinate basis it is the integral of the diagonal <Euclidean path integral> kernel. Inserting a symmetry operator instead gives a weighted thermal <trace>.

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