%0 Journal Article %A Junge, M. %A Palazuelos Cabezón, Carlos %A Parcet, J. %A Perrin, M. %T Hypercontractivity in finite-dimensional matrix algebras %D 2015 %@ 0022-2488 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24016 %X We obtain hypercontractivity estimates for a large class of semigroups defined on finite-dimensional matrix algebras Mn. These semigroups arise from Poisson-like length functions Ψ on Zn × Zn and provide new hypercontractive families of quantum channels when Ψ is conditionally negative. We also study the optimality of our estimates. %~