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How fast can correlations spread in a quantum many-body system? Based on the seminal work by Lieb and Robinson, it has recently been shown that several interacting many-body systems exhibit an effective light cone that bounds the…

We improve the Lieb-Robinson bound for a wide class of quantum many-body systems with long-range interactions decaying by power law. As an application, we show that the group velocity of information propagation grows by power law in time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 T. Matsuta , T. Koma , S. Nakamura

For a wide class of bipartite systems with localized couplings, we establish existence of an effective light-cone for propagation of entanglement. This result yields a hard lower bound on the time it takes, under ideal conditions (no loss,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Israel Michael Sigal

Motivated by recent experiments with ultra-cold matter, we derive a new bound on the propagation of information in $D$-dimensional lattice models exhibiting $1/r^{\alpha}$ interactions with $\alpha>D$. The bound contains two terms: One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Zhe-Xuan Gong , Michael Foss-Feig , Spyridon Michalakis , Alexey V. Gorshkov

The non-equilibrium response of a quantum many-body system defines its fundamental transport properties and how initially localized quantum information spreads. However, for long-range-interacting quantum systems little is known. We address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-15 Philipp Hauke , Luca Tagliacozzo

We state and prove four types of Lieb-Robinson bounds valid for many-body open quantum systems with power law decaying interactions undergoing out of equilibrium dynamics. We also provide an introductory and self-contained discussion of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Ryan Sweke , Jens Eisert , Michael Kastner

While for non-relativistic short-range interactions, the spread of information is local, remaining confined in an effective light cone, long-range interactions can generate either nonlocal (faster-than-ballistic) or local (ballistic) spread…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shreyas Sadugol , Giuseppe Luca Celardo , Fausto Borgonovi , Lev Kaplan

In many-body localized systems, propagation of information forms a light cone that grows logarithmically with time. However, local changes in energy or other conserved quantities typically spread only within a finite distance. Is it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-07 Yichen Huang , Yong-Liang Zhang , Xie Chen

Despite extensive research on long-range interacting quantum systems, the physical mechanism responsible for the emergence of light cones remains unidentified. This work presents a novel perspective on the origins of locality and emergent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Peyman Azodi , Herschel A. Rabitz

We apply the Lieb-Robinson bounds technique to find the maximum speed of interaction in a spin model with topological order whose low-energy effective theory describes light [see X.-G. Wen, \prb {\bf 68}, 115413 (2003)]. The maximum speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 Alioscia Hamma , Fotini Markopoulou , Isabeau Premont-Schwarz , Simone Severini

We propose new Lieb-Robinson bounds (bounds on the speed of propagation of information in quantum systems) with an explicit dependence on the interaction strengths of the Hamiltonian. For systems with more than two interactions it is found…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz , Jeff Hnybida

Discrete lattice models are a cornerstone of quantum many-body physics. They arise as effective descriptions of condensed matter systems and lattice-regularized quantum field theories. Lieb-Robinson bounds imply that if the degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Henrik Wilming , Albert H. Werner

We apply the quantum Langevin equations approach to study nonlinear light propagation through one-dimensional interacting open quantum lattice models. We write a large set of quantum Langevin equations of lattice operators obtained after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-06 Pooja Manasi , Dibyendu Roy

Lieb Robinson bounds quantify the maximal speed of information spreading in nonrelativistic quantum systems. We discuss the relation of Lieb Robinson bounds to out of time order correlators, which correspond to different norms of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 Luis Colmenarez , David J. Luitz

Several recent works have derived Lieb-Robinson bounds (LRBs) for Bose-Hubbard-type Hamiltonians. For certain structured initial states, e.g., vacuum perturbations or near-stationary states, information propagates with velocity $v \leq C$ .…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Marius Lemm

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

Understanding the ultimate rate at which information propagates is a pivotal issue in nonequilibrium physics. Nevertheless, the task of elucidating the propagation speed inherent in quantum bosonic systems presents challenges due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Tan Van Vu , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

In non-relativistic quantum theories the Lieb-Robinson bound defines an effective light cone with exponentially small tails outside of it. In this work we use it to derive a bound for the time evolution of the correlation function of two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-28 Nils O. Abeling , Lorenzo Cevolani , Stefan Kehrein

Enhanced experimental capabilities to control nonlocal and power-law decaying interactions are currently fuelling intense research in the domain of quantum many-body physics. Compared to their counterparts with short-ranged interactions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Robert Mattes , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

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