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Lieb-Robinson Bounds and the Exponential Clustering Theorem

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v3 Statistical Mechanics math.MP

Abstract

We give a Lieb-Robinson bound for the group velocity of a large class of discrete quantum systems which can be used to prove that a non-vanishing spectral gap implies exponential clustering in the ground state of such systems.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0506030,
  title  = {Lieb-Robinson Bounds and the Exponential Clustering Theorem},
  author = {Bruno Nachtergaele and Robert Sims},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0506030},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

v2: corrected proof of Theorem 2. v3: slightly better bound in Theorem 2; updated proof

R2 v1 2026-07-22T16:26:16.188Z