On the size of the space spanned by a nonequilibrium state in a quantum spin lattice system
Quantum Physics
2019-05-15 v4 Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We consider the time evolution of a state in an isolated quantum spin lattice system with energy cumulants proportional to the number of the sites . We compute the distribution of the eigenvalues of the time averaged state over a time window in the limit of large . This allows us to infer the size of a subspace that captures time evolution in with an accuracy . We estimate the size to be , where is the energy variance per site, and is the inverse error function.
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@article{arxiv.1901.10797,
title = {On the size of the space spanned by a nonequilibrium state in a quantum spin lattice system},
author = {Maurizio Fagotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.10797},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
25 pages, 7 figures; new appendix with a proof that the energy cumulants are extensive whenever the Hamiltonian is quasilocal and the state has finite correlation lengths