Local gap threshold for frustration-free spin systems

DOI10.1063/1.4962337MaRDI QIDQ2825540zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Gosset, Evgeny Mozgunov

Publication date 13 October 2016

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00088, https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160622-145800493

zbMATH Keywords

Knabe's spectral gap bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

Abstract: We improve Knabe's spectral gap bound for frustration-free translation-invariant local Hamiltonians in 1D. The bound is based on a relationship between global and local gaps. The global gap is the spectral gap of a size-$m$ chain with periodic boundary conditions, while the local gap is that of a subchain of size $n<m$ with open boundary conditions. Knabe proved that if the local gap is larger than the threshold value $1/(n-1)$ for some $n>2$, then the global gap is lower bounded by a positive constant in the thermodynamic limit $mightarrowinfty$. Here we improve the threshold to $frac6n(n+1)$, which is better (smaller) for all $n>3$ and which is asymptotically optimal. As a corollary we establish a surprising fact about 1D translation-invariant frustration-free systems that are gapless in the thermodynamic limit: for any such system the spectral gap of a size-$n$ chain with open boundary conditions is upper bounded as $O(n^{-2})$. This contrasts with gapless frustrated systems where the gap can be $Theta(n^{-1})$. It also limits the extent to which the area law is violated in these frustration-free systems, since it implies that the half-chain entanglement entropy is $O(1/sqrtepsilon)$ as a function of spectral gap $epsilon$. We extend our results to frustration-free systems on a 2D square lattice.

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