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The structure of the ground spaces of quantum systems consisting of local interactions is of fundamental importance to different areas of physics. In this Letter, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for a subspace to be the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 Jianxin Chen , Zhengfeng Ji , Mary Beth Ruskai , Bei Zeng , Duanlu Zhou

The quantum world is described by a unit vector in the Hilbert space and the Hamiltonian. Do these abstract basis-independent objects give a complete description of the physical world, or should we include observables like positions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

Nonlocal gravity models are constructed to explain the current acceleration of the universe. These models are inspired by the infrared correction appearing in Einstein Hilbert action. Here we develop the Hamiltonian formalism of a nonlocal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-28 Pawan Joshi , Utkarsh Kumar , Sukanta Panda

According to von Neumann, the global Hamiltonian of whole universe must be Hermitian in order to keep the eigenvalues real and to construct a self-consistent quantum theory. In addition to the open system approach by introducing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Minyi Huang , Ray-Kuang Lee

Locality is a central notion in modern physics, but different disciplines understand it in different ways. Quantum field theory focuses on relativistic locality, based on spacetime regions, while quantum information theory focuses circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Andrea Di Biagio , Richard Howl , Časlav Brukner , Carlo Rovelli , Marios Christodoulou

In this paper, by arising condition in variation, from equal time to non-equal time, I reconsider how geometrodynamics equations allow to be derived from variational principle in general relativity and then find the variation of extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-15 Qian Chen

We study spectral properties of quantum many-body Hamiltonians through a subsystem-based framework. Given a Hamiltonian of the form $H = \sum_{X \subseteq \Lambda} \Phi(X)$ acting on a tensor product Hilbert space, we associate to each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 MD Nahidul Hasan Sabit

The locality issue of quantum mechanics is a key issue to a proper understanding of quantum physics and beyond. What has been commonly emphasized as quantum nonlocality has received an inspiring examination through the notion of Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Otto C. W. Kong

A section of a Hamiltonian system is a hypersurface in the phase space of the system, usually representing a set of one-sided constraints (e.g. a boundary, an obstacle or a set of admissible states). In this paper we give local…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Konstantinos Kourliouros

The identification of physical subsystems in quantum mechanics as compared to classical mechanics poses significant conceptual challenges, especially in the context of quantum gravity. Traditional approaches associate quantum systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Guilherme Franzmann

We derive a set of invariants under local unitary transformations for arbitrary dimensional quantum systems. These invariants are given by hyperdeterminants and independent from the detailed pure state decompositions of a given quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Ting-Gui Zhang , Naihuan Jing , Xianqing Li-Jost , Ming-Jing Zhao , Shao-Ming Fei

We show how local constraints can globally "shatter" Hilbert space into subsectors, leading to an unexpected dynamics with features reminiscent of both many body localization and quantum scars. A crisp example of this phenomenon is provided…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-20 Vedika Khemani , Rahul Nandkishore

A notion of localization of information within quantum subsystems plays a key role in describing the physics of quantum systems, and in particular is a prerequisite for discussing important concepts such as entanglement and information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 William Donnelly , Steven B. Giddings

We define operator manifolds as manifolds on which a spectral measure on a Hilbert space is given as additional structure. The spectral measure mathematically describes space as a quantum mechanical observable. We show that the vectors of…

funct-an · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Felix Finster

Quantum Hamiltonian complexity studies computational complexity aspects of local Hamiltonians and ground states; these questions can be viewed as generalizations of classical computational complexity problems related to local constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani

We demonstrate that the local nonfreeness, an unbiased measure of correlation between electrons at a single lattice site, can be computed as the mutual information between local natural spin orbitals. This leads us to prove a general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Gabriele Bellomia , Adriano Amaricci , Massimo Capone

According to the "Hilbert Space Fundamentalism" Thesis, all features of a physical system, including the 3D-space, a preferred basis, and factorization into subsystems, uniquely emerge from the state vector and the Hamiltonian alone. I give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

We study the spectral properties of a spin-boson Hamiltonian that depends on two continuous parameters $0\leq\Lambda<\infty$ (interaction strength) and $0\leq\alpha\leq\pi/2$ (integrability switch). In the classical limit this system has…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Vyacheslav V. Stepanov , Gerhard Muller , Joachim Stolze

In 1948, Schwinger developed a local Lorentz covariant formulation of relativistic quantum electrodynamics in space-time which is fundamentally inconsistent with any delocalized interpretation of quantum mechanics. An interpretation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Mordecai Waegell

By computing the local energy expectation values with respect to some local measurement basis we show that for any quantum system there are two fundamentally different contributions: changes in energy that do not alter the local von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-04 Hendrik Weimer , Markus J. Henrich , Florian Rempp , Heiko Schröder , Günter Mahler