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Correlations in disordered quantum harmonic oscillator systems: The effects of excitations and quantum quenches

Mathematical Physics 2018-02-23 v2 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We prove spatial decay estimates on disorder-averaged position-momentum correlations in a gapless class of random oscillator models. First, we prove a decay estimate on dynamic correlations for general eigenstates with a bound that depends on the magnitude of the maximally excited mode. Then, we consider the situation of a quantum quench. We prove that the full time-evolution of an initially chosen (uncorrelated) product state has disorder-averaged correlations which decay exponentially in space, uniformly in time.

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@article{arxiv.1704.04841,
  title  = {Correlations in disordered quantum harmonic oscillator systems: The effects of excitations and quantum quenches},
  author = {Houssam Abdul-Rahman and Robert Sims and Günter Stolz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04841},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages, Contribution for the proceedings of QMath13: Mathematical Results in Quantum Physics, Atlanta, 2016