학술논문

Locality bounds for quantum dynamics at low energy
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. B 109, 094310 March (2024)
Subject
Mathematical Physics
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Language
Abstract
We discuss the generic slowing down of quantum dynamics in low energy density states of spatially local Hamiltonians. Beginning with quantum walks of a single particle, we prove that for certain classes of Hamiltonians (deformations of lattice-regularized $H\propto p^{2k}$), the ``butterfly velocity" of particle motion at low energies has an upper bound that must scale as $E^{(2k-1)/2k}$, as expected from dimensional analysis. We generalize these results to obtain bounds on the typical velocities of particles in many-body systems with repulsive interactions, where for certain families of Hubbard-like models we obtain similar scaling.
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