Stability of frustration-free Hamiltonians

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DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1762-6zbMATH Open1270.81089arXiv1109.1588OpenAlexW2135902788WikidataQ114230972 ScholiaQ114230972MaRDI QIDQ358364FDOQ358364


Authors: Spyridon Michalakis, Justyna P. Zwolak Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 August 2013

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove stability of the spectral gap for gapped, frustration-free Hamiltonians under general, quasi-local perturbations. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for stability, which we call "Local Topological Quantum Order" and show that this condition implies an area law for the entanglement entropy of the groundstate subspace. This result extends previous work by Bravyi et al., on the stability of topological quantum order for Hamiltonians composed of commuting projections with a common zero-energy subspace. We conclude with a list of open problems relevant to spectral gaps and topological quantum order.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1588




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