Correlation Length versus Gap in Frustration-Free Systems

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.116.097202MaRDI QIDQ6265677zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors David Gosset, Yichen Huang

Publication date 21 September 2015

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.116.097202

Abstract: Hastings established exponential decay of correlations for ground states of gapped quantum many-body systems. A ground state of a (geometrically) local Hamiltonian with spectral gap $epsilon$ has correlation length $xi$ upper bounded as $xi=O(1/epsilon)$. In general this bound cannot be improved. Here we study the scaling of the correlation length as a function of the spectral gap in frustration-free local Hamiltonians, and we prove a tight bound $xi=O(1/sqrtepsilon)$ in this setting. This highlights a fundamental difference between frustration-free and frustrated systems near criticality. The result is obtained using an improved version of the combinatorial proof of correlation decay due to Aharonov, Arad, Vazirani, and Landau.

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