Strictly linear light cones in long-range interacting systems of arbitrary dimensions

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVX.10.031010MaRDI QIDQ6328271zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 31 October 2019

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVX.10.031010

Abstract: In locally interacting quantum many-body systems, the velocity of information propagation is finitely bounded and a linear light cone can be defined. Outside the light cone, the amount of information rapidly decays with distance. When systems have long-range interactions, it is highly nontrivial whether such a linear light cone exists. Herein, we consider generic long-range interacting systems with decaying interactions, such as

R^{- a l p h a}

with distance

R

. We prove the existence of the linear light cone for

a l p h a > 2 D + 1

(

D

: the spatial dimension), where we obtain the Lieb--Robinson bound as

with

for two arbitrary operators

O_{i}

and

O_{j}

separated by a distance

R

. Moreover, we provide an explicit quantum-state transfer protocol that achieves the above bound up to a constant coefficient and violates the linear light cone for

a l p h a < 2 D + 1

. In the regime of

a l p h a > 2 D + 1

, our result characterizes the best general constraints on the information spreading.

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