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Macroscopic suppression of supersonic quantum transport

Mathematical Physics 2025-10-20 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider a broad class of strongly interacting quantum lattice gases, including the Fermi-Hubbard and Bose-Hubbard models. We focus on macroscopic particle clusters of size θN\theta N, with θ(0,1)\theta\in(0,1) and NN the total particle number, and we study the quantum probability that such a cluster is transported across a distance rr within time tt. Conventional effective light cone arguments yield a bound of the form exp(vtr)\exp(v t-r). We report a substantially stronger bound exp(θN(vtr))\exp(\theta N(vt-r)), which provides exponential suppression that scales with system size. Our result establishes a universal dynamical large deviation principle: macroscopic suppression of supersonic macroscopic transport (MASSMAT).

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@article{arxiv.2503.19788,
  title  = {Macroscopic suppression of supersonic quantum transport},
  author = {Jérémy Faupin and Marius Lemm and Israel Michael Sigal and Jingxuan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19788},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures; v2: final version corresponding to published article