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$N$-Scaling of Timescales in Long-Range $N$-Body Quantum Systems

Statistical Mechanics 2017-02-14 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

Long-range interacting many-body systems exhibit a number of peculiar and intriguing properties. One of those is the scaling of relaxation times with the number NN of particles in a system. In this paper I give a survey of results on long-range quantum spin models that illustrate this scaling behaviour, and provide indications for its common occurrence by making use of Lieb-Robinson bounds. I argue that these findings may help in understanding the extraordinarily short equilibration timescales predicted by typicality techniques.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03770,
  title  = {$N$-Scaling of Timescales in Long-Range $N$-Body Quantum Systems},
  author = {Michael Kastner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03770},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures. Invited contribution to the STATPHYS26 Special Issue in JSTAT