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We show that the spectral gap problem is undecidable. Specifically, we construct families of translationally-invariant, nearest-neighbour Hamiltonians on a 2D square lattice of d-level quantum systems (d constant), for which determining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Toby Cubitt , David Perez-Garcia , Michael M. Wolf

The problem of determining the existence of a spectral gap in a lattice quantum spin system was previously shown to be undecidable for one [J. Bausch et al., "Undecidability of the spectral gap in one dimension", Physical Review X 10…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Laura Castilla-Castellano , Angelo Lucia

The spectral gap - the energy difference between the ground state and first excited state - is central to quantum many-body physics. Many challenging open problems, such as the Haldane conjecture, existence of gapped topological spin liquid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Toby Cubitt , David Perez-Garcia , Michael M. Wolf

We construct a family of Hamiltonians whose phase diagram is guaranteed to have a single phase transition, yet the location of this phase transition is uncomputable. The Hamiltonians $H(\phi)$ describe qudits on a two-dimensional square…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 James Purcell , Zhi Li , Toby Cubitt

The spectral gap problem - determining whether the energy spectrum of a system has an energy gap above ground state, or if there is a continuous range of low-energy excitations - pervades quantum many-body physics. Recently, this important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , David Perez-Garcia

Integrability is a cornerstone of classical mechanics, where it has a precise meaning. Extending this notion to quantum systems, however, remains subtle and unresolved. In particular, deciding whether a quantum Hamiltonian - viewed simply…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Feng He , Arthur Hutsalyuk , Giuseppe Mussardo , Andrea Stampiggi

This paper reviews the 1994 proof that the spectral gap of Hamiltonian quantum systems capable of universal computation is uncomputable.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-19 Seth Lloyd

We locate gaps in the spectrum of a Hamiltonian on a periodic cuboidal (and generally hyperrectangular) lattice graph with $\delta$ couplings in the vertices. We formulate sufficient conditions under which the number of gaps is finite. As…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Ondřej Turek

Phase diagrams chart material properties with respect to one or more external or internal parameters such as pressure or magnetisation; as such, they play a fundamental role in many theoretical and applied fields of science. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 James D. Watson , Johannes Bausch

We introduce a family of Hamiltonian systems for measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables. The Hamiltonians (i) are quadratic, and therefore two body, (ii) are of short range, (iii) are frustration-free, and (iv)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-01 Leandro Aolita , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acín

We prove that recognizing the phase of matter of an unknown quantum state is quantum computationally hard. More specifically, we show that the quantum computational time of any phase recognition algorithm must grow exponentially in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Thomas Schuster , Dominik Kufel , Norman Y. Yao , Hsin-Yuan Huang

A general procedure is established to calculate the quantum phase diagrams for finite matter-field Hamiltonian models. The minimum energy surface associated to the different symmetries of the model is calculated as a function of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sergio Cordero , Eduardo Nahmad-Achar , Ramón López-Peña , Octavio Castaños

Can the properties of the thermodynamic limit of a many-body quantum system be extrapolated by analysing a sequence of finite-size cases? We present a model for which such an approach gives completely misleading results: a translationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Johannes Bausch , Toby S. Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , David Perez-Garcia , Michael M. Wolf

Using numerical techniques, we study the miscible-immiscible quantum phase transition in a linearly coupled binary Bose-Hubbard model Hamiltonian that can describe low-energy properties of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in optical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Fei Zhan , Jacopo Sabbatini , Matthew J. Davis , Ian P. McCulloch

A phenomenological Hamiltonian of a closed (i.e., unitary) quantum system is assumed to have an $N$ by $N$ real-matrix form composed of a unperturbed diagonal-matrix part $H^{(N)}_0$ and of a tridiagonal-matrix perturbation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Miloslav Znojil

From known phase diagram regions of different model Hamiltonians describing strongly correlated systems we deduced new domains of the ground state phase diagram of the same model by an unitary transformation. Different types of extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 E Kovacs , Zs. Gulacsi

We propose a new approach to constructing a phase diagram using the effective Hamiltonian derived only from a single real-space image produced by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Currently, there have been two main methods to construct…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-07 Kazuhito Takeuchi , Koretaka Yuge , Shinya Tabata , Hiroki Saito , Shu Kurokawa , Akira Sakai

We investigate the phase diagram of a quantum spin-1 chain whose Hamiltonian is invariant under a global onsite $A_4$, translation and lattice inversion symmetries. We detect different gapped phases characterized by SPT order and symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-29 Abhishodh Prakash , Colin G. West , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We consider the class of spin Hamiltonians on a 1D chain with periodic boundary conditions that are (i) translational invariant, (ii) commuting and (iii) scale invariant, where by the latter we mean that the ground state degeneracy is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Salman Beigi

We construct a family of integrable vertex model based on the typical four-dimensional representations of the quantum group deformation of the Lie superalgebra $sl(2|1)$. Upon alternation of such a representation with its dual this model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-16 Holger Frahm , Márcio J. Martins
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