Local perturbations perturb -- exponentially-locally

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DOI10.1063/1.4922507zbMATH Open1321.82028arXiv1501.04571OpenAlexW3103479997MaRDI QIDQ5264397FDOQ5264397


Authors: Marius Schütz, W. De Roeck Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 July 2015

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

Abstract: We elaborate on the principle that for gapped quantum spin systems with local interaction "local perturbations [in the Hamiltonian] perturb locally [the ground state]". This principle was established in [Bachmann et al. 2012], relying on the `spectral flow technique' or `quasi-adiabatic continuation' [Hastings 2004] to obtain locality estimates with sub-exponential decay in the distance to the spatial support of the perturbation. We use ideas of [Hamza et Al. 2009] to obtain similarly a transformation between gapped eigenvectors and their perturbations that is local with exponential decay. This allows to improve locality bounds on the effect of perturbations on the low lying states in certain gapped models with a unique `bulk ground state' or `topological quantum order'. We also give some estimate on the exponential decay of correlations in models with impurities where some relevant correlations decay faster than one would naively infer from the global gap of the system, as one also expects in disordered systems with a localized ground state.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04571




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