On the Partial Transpose of a Haar Unitary Matrix

Abstract: We consider the effect of a partial transpose on the limit $*$-distribution of a Haar distributed random unitary matrix. If we fix, $b$, the number of blocks, we show that the partial transpose can be decomposed into a sum of $b$ matrices which are asymptotically free and identically distributed. We then consider the joint effect of different block decompositions and show that under some mild assumptions we also get asymptotic freeness.