Localized excitations from localized unitary operators

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2017.03.012zbMATH Open1364.81048arXiv1604.00965OpenAlexW3103802217MaRDI QIDQ530224FDOQ530224

Allic Sivaramakrishnan

Publication date: 9 June 2017

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

Abstract: Localized unitary operators are basic probes of locality and causality in quantum systems: localized unitary operators create localized excitations in entangled states. Working with an explicit form, we explore the properties of these operators in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. We show that, unlike unitary operators, local non-unitary operators generically create non-local excitations. We present a local picture for quantum systems in which localized experimentalists can only act through localized Hamiltonian deformations, and therefore localized unitary operators. We demonstrate that localized unitary operators model certain quantum quenches exactly. We show how the Reeh-Schlieder theorem follows intuitively from basic properties of entanglement, non-unitary operators, and the local picture. We show that a recent quasi-particle picture for excited-state entanglement entropy in conformal field theories is not universal for all local operators. We prove a causality relation for entanglement entropy and connect our results to the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00965

zbMATH Keywords

causalityconformal field theoryentanglementAdS/CFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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