Locality of gapped ground states in systems with power-law decaying interactions

DOI10.1103/PRXQUANTUM.4.020348arXiv2208.13057MaRDI QIDQ6409015FDOQ6409015

Authors: Zhiyuan Wang, Kaden R. A. Hazzard 

Publication date: 27 August 2022

Abstract: It has been proved that in gapped ground states of locally-interacting quantum systems, the effect of local perturbations decays exponentially with distance. However, in systems with power-law ($1/r^{a}lpha$) decaying interactions, no analogous statement has been shown, and there are serious mathematical obstacles to proving it with existing methods. In this paper we prove that when $alpha$ exceeds the spatial dimension $D$, the effect of local perturbations on local properties a distance $r$ away is upper bounded by a power law $1/r^{alph{a}_1}$ in gapped ground states, provided that the perturbations do not close the spectral gap. The power-law exponent $alph{a}_1$ is tight if $alpha>2D$ and interactions are two-body, where we have $alph{a}_1=alpha$. The proof is enabled by a method that avoids the use of quasiadiabatic continuation and incorporates techniques of complex analysis. This method also improves bounds on ground state correlation decay, even in short-range interacting systems. Our work generalizes the fundamental notion that local perturbations have local effects to power-law interacting systems, with broad implications for numerical simulations and experiments.

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