We consider the limiting distribution of UNANUN∗ and BN (and more
general expressions), where AN and BN are N×N matrices with
entries in a unital C∗-algebra B which have limiting B-valued distributions as N→∞, and UN is a N×N Haar
distributed quantum unitary random matrix with entries independent from
B. Under a boundedness assumption, we show that UNANUN∗ and
BN are asymptotically free with amalgamation over B. Moreover,
this also holds in the stronger infinitesimal sense of Belinschi-Shlyakhtenko.
We provide an example which demonstrates that this example may fail for
classical Haar unitary random matrices when the algebra B is
infinite-dimensional.Comment: Added reference [13], and replaced Lemma 3.7 by a stronger result
from that paper. Minor change to the statement of Theorem 4.6. 25 pages, 3
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