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Title: Disordered Lieb-Robinson Bounds in One Dimension
By tightening the conventional Lieb-Robinson bounds to better handle systems that lack translation invariance, we determine the extent to which “weak links” suppress operator growth in disordered one dimensional spin chains. In particular, we prove that ballistic growth is impossible when the distribution of coupling strengths μ(J ) has a sufficiently heavy tail at small J and we identify the correct dynamical exponent to use instead. Furthermore, through a detailed analysis of the special case in which the couplings are genuinely random and independent, we find that the standard formulation of Lieb-Robinson bounds is insufficient to capture the complexity of the dynamics—we must distinguish between bounds that hold for all sites of the chain and bounds that hold for a subsequence of sites and we show by explicit example that these two can have dramatically different behaviors. All the same, our result for the dynamical exponent is tight, in that we prove by counterexample that there cannot exist any Lieb-Robinson bound with a smaller exponent. We close by discussing the implications of our results, both major and minor, for numerous applications ranging from quench dynamics to the structure of ground states.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2120757
PAR ID:
10505887
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Physical Society
Date Published:
Journal Name:
PRX Quantum
Volume:
4
Issue:
2
ISSN:
2691-3399
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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