Finite Group Velocity Implies Locality of Interactions


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2020-06-17

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Spin systems with exponentially decaying k-body interactions have an effective finite group velocity for the propagation of correlations due to Lieb-Robinson bounds. We show that a finite group velocity conversely implies the locality of the underlying Hamiltonian: a system fulfills Lieb-Robinson bounds in exponential form if and only if the underlying interactions decay exponentially in space. Our result already follows from the behaviour of two-point correlation functions for single-site observables and generalizes to different decay behaviours. As a side-result, we thus find that Lieb-Robinson bounds for single-site observables imply Lieb-Robinson bounds for arbitrary bounded observables. In addition we show that our results generalize to fermionic lattice models.

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03781 - Renner, Renato / Renner, Renato check_circle

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