Signaling and scrambling with strongly long-range interactions
Abstract
Strongly long-range interacting quantum systems—those with interactions decaying as a power law 1 /rα in the distance r on a D -dimensional lattice for α ≤D —have received significant interest in recent years. They are present in leading experimental platforms for quantum computation and simulation, as well as in theoretical models of quantum-information scrambling and fast entanglement creation. Since no notion of locality is expected in such systems, a general understanding of their dynamics is lacking. In a step towards rectifying this problem, we prove two Lieb-Robinson-type bounds that constrain the time for signaling and scrambling in strongly long-range interacting systems, for which no tight bounds were previously known. Our first bound applies to systems mappable to free-particle Hamiltonians with long-range hopping, and is saturable for α ≤D /2 . Our second bound pertains to generic long-range interacting spin Hamiltonians and gives a tight lower bound for the signaling time to extensive subsets of the system for all α <D . This many-site signaling time lower bounds the scrambling time in strongly long-range interacting systems.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- July 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.010401
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1906.02662
- Bibcode:
- 2020PhRvA.102a0401G
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- $5+\epsilon + 5$ pages, $1+2$ figures