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On physical grounds, one expects locally interacting quantum many-body systems to feature a finite group velocity. This intuition is rigorously underpinned by Lieb-Robinson bounds that state that locally interacting Hamiltonians with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 J. Eisert

The Lieb-Robinson bound shows the existence of a maximum speed of signal propagation in discrete quantum mechanical systems with local interactions. This generalizes the concept of relativistic causality beyond field theory, and provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 David Poulin

We prove global existence and uniqueness of dynamics on the quasi-local algebra $\mathcal{A}$ of a quantum lattice system for spatially growing derivations $\mathcal{L}_\Phi = \sum_x [ \Phi_x , \cdot ]$. Existing results assume that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Stefan Teufel , Marius Wesle , Tom Wessel

We demonstrate that the dynamics of an open quantum system can be calculated efficiently and with predefined error, provided a basis exists in which the system-environment interactions are local and hence obey the Lieb-Robinson bound. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Giulia Gualdi , Christiane P. Koch

We study equilibration of an isolated quantum system by mapping it onto a network of classical oscillators in Hilbert space. By choosing a suitable basis for this mapping, the degree of locality of the quantum system reflects in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Daniel Nickelsen , Michael Kastner

We consider the dynamics of the Bose-Hubbard model on general lattices and prove a Lieb-Robinson bound for observables whose supports are separated by an initially almost particle-free region. We further obtain a maximal velocity bound for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Jérémy Faupin , Marius Lemm , Israel Michael Sigal

We study many-body properties of quantum harmonic oscillator lattices with disorder. A sufficient condition for dynamical localization, expressed as a zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bound, is formulated in terms of the decay of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-24 Bruno Nachtergaele , Robert Sims , Günter Stolz

The question of whether interactions can break dynamical localization in quantum kicked rotor systems has been the subject of a long--standing debate. Here, we introduce an extended mapping from the kicked Lieb--Liniger model to a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 Ang Yang , Zekai Chen , Yanliang Guo , Manuele Landini , Hanns-Christoph Nägerl , Lei Ying

Lieb-Robinson bounds demonstrate the emergence of locality in many-body quantum systems. Intuitively, Lieb-Robinson bounds state that with local or exponentially decaying interactions, the correlation that can be built up between two sites…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ben T. McDonough , Chao Yin , Andrew Lucas , Carolyn Zhang

We consider a general class of spatially local non-Markovian open quantum lattice models, with a bosonic environment that is approximated as Gaussian. Under the assumption of a finite environment memory time, formalized as a finite total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rahul Trivedi , Xiehang Yu , Mark Rudner

These lecture notes focus on the application of ideas of locality, in particular Lieb-Robinson bounds, to quantum many-body systems. We consider applications including correlation decay, topological order, a higher dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 M. B. Hastings

Open quantum systems weakly coupled to the environment are modeled by completely positive, trace preserving semigroups of linear maps. The generators of such evolutions are called Lindbladians. In the setting of quantum many-body systems on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Toby S. Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , Spyridon Michalakis , David Perez-Garcia

The speed of light $c$ sets a strict upper bound on the speed of information transfer in both classical and quantum systems. In nonrelativistic quantum systems, the Lieb-Robinson Theorem imposes an emergent speed limit $v \hspace{-0.2mm}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Aaron J. Friedman , Chao Yin , Yifan Hong , Andrew Lucas

We define various notions of locality for *-automorphisms of the algebra of observables for an infinitely extended quantum spin system and study their relationship. In particular, we show that the ubiquitous characterization which arises…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Sven Bachmann , Giuseppe De Nittis , Julián Gómez

We consider open many-body systems governed by a time-dependent quantum master equation with short-range interactions. With a generalized Lieb-Robinson bound, we show that the evolution in this very generic framework is quasi-local, i.e.,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 Thomas Barthel , Martin Kliesch

We prove Lieb-Robinson bounds and the existence of the thermodynamic limit for a general class of irreversible dynamics for quantum lattice systems with time-dependent generators that satisfy a suitable decay condition in space.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Bruno Nachtergaele , Anna Vershynina , Valentin A. Zagrebnov

This is an introductory text reviewing Lieb-Robinson bounds for open and closed quantum many-body systems. We introduce the Heisenberg picture for time-dependent local Liouvillians and state a Lieb-Robinson bound that gives rise to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Martin Kliesch , Christian Gogolin , Jens Eisert

We provide a simple proof of the Lieb-Robinson bound and use it to prove the existence of the dynamics for interactions with polynomial decay. We then use our results to demonstrate that there is an upper bound on the rate at which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruno Nachtergaele , Yoshiko Ogata , Robert Sims

We generalize the Lieb-Robinson theorem to systems whose Hamiltonian is the sum of local operators whose commutators are bounded.

The aim of this work is to study the dynamics of quantum systems subjected to a localized fermionic source in the presence of bulk dephasing. We consider two classes of one-dimensional lattice systems: (i) a non-interacting lattice with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Tamoghna Ray , Katha Ganguly , Dario Poletti , Manas Kulkarni , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla