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Correlation decay in fermionic lattice systems with power-law interactions at non-zero temperature

Quantum Physics 2017-09-15 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study correlations in fermionic lattice systems with long-range interactions in thermal equilibrium. We prove a bound on the correlation decay between anti-commuting operators and generalize a long-range Lieb-Robinson type bound. Our results show that in these systems of spatial dimension DD with, not necessarily translation invariant, two-site interactions decaying algebraically with the distance with an exponent α2D\alpha \geq 2\,D, correlations between such operators decay at least algebraically with an exponent arbitrarily close to α\alpha at any non-zero temperature. Our bound is asymptotically tight, which we demonstrate by a high temperature expansion and by numerically analyzing density-density correlations in the 1D quadratic (free, exactly solvable) Kitaev chain with long-range pairing.

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@article{arxiv.1702.00371,
  title  = {Correlation decay in fermionic lattice systems with power-law interactions at non-zero temperature},
  author = {Senaida Hernández-Santana and Christian Gogolin and J. Ignacio Cirac and Antonio Acín},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00371},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures, minor improvements and typos corrected

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