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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

Spin chains have long been considered as candidates for quantum channels to facilitate quantum communication. We consider the transfer of a single excitation along a spin-1/2 chain governed by Heisenberg-type interactions. We build on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-14 Michael Murphy , Simone Montangero , Vittorio Giovannetti , Tommaso Calarco

Lieb-Robinson bounds show that the speed of propagation of information under the Heisenberg dynamics in a wide class of non-relativistic quantum lattice systems is essentially bounded. We review work of the past dozen years that has turned…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Bruno Nachtergaele , Robert Sims , Amanda Young

The effective Heisenberg interaction of long distance is constructed in spin qubits connected to a bus of two strongly coupled chains. Universal quantum computation can be realized on the basis of the bus which always keeps frozen at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang Hao , Shiqun Zhu

We show that excitations of interacting quantum particles in lattice models always propagate with a finite speed of sound. Our argument is simple yet general and shows that by focusing on the physically relevant observables one can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Norbert Schuch , Sarah K. Harrison , Tobias J. Osborne , Jens Eisert

Discoveries of fundamental limits for the rates of physical processes, from the speed of light to the Lieb-Robinson bound for information propagation, often lead to breakthroughs in the our understanding of the underlying physics. Here we…

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum systems with long-range interactions. Two different models describing, respectively, interacting lattice bosons and spins are considered. Our study relies on a combined approach based on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-26 Lorenzo Cevolani , Giuseppe Carleo , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

The speed at which the magnetic interaction propagates along a chain of classic dipoles is discussed here. While in the quantum information counterpart for long-range interacting spins, where the speed of propagation of the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Josep Batle , Joan J. Cerdà , Ph. Depondt , J. -C. S. Lévy

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

A key signature of MBL (many-body localization) is the slow rate at which information spreads. It is shown that the infinite random Heisenberg XXZ spin-$\frac12$ chain exhibits slow propagation of information (logarithmic light cone) in any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Alexander Elgart , Abel Klein

It is shown that an ideal measurement of a one-particle wave packet state of a relativistic quantum field in Minkowski spacetime enables superluminal signalling. The result holds for a measurement that takes place over an intervention…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 Dionigi M. T. Benincasa , Leron Borsten , Michel Buck , Fay Dowker

When locally exciting a quantum lattice model, the excitation will propagate through the lattice. The effect is responsible for a wealth of non-equilibrium phenomena, and has been exploited to transmit quantum information through spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Eisert , D. Gross

It has been recently suggested that the dynamics of a quantum spin system may provide a natural mechanism for transporting quantum information. We show that one dimensional rings of qubits with fixed (time-independent) interactions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias J. Osborne , Noah Linden

Large spin systems as given by magnetic macromolecules or two-dimensional spin arrays rule out an exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. Nevertheless, it is possible to derive upper and lower bounds of the minimal energies, i.e. the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Baerwinkel , H. -J. Schmidt , J. Schnack

Estimating extensive combinations of local parameters in distributed quantum systems is a central problem in quantum sensing, with applications ranging from magnetometry to timekeeping. While optimal strategies are known for sensing…

A simple probe of chaos and operator growth in many-body quantum systems is the out of time ordered four point function. In a large class of local systems, the effects of chaos in this correlator build up exponentially fast inside the so…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Márk Mezei , Gábor Sárosi

We formulate a kinetic theory of quantum information scrambling in the context of a paradigmatic model of interacting electrons in the vicinity of a superconducting phase transition. We carefully derive a set of coupled partial differential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-05 Camille Aron , Eric Brunet , Aditi Mitra

Quantum probes that enable enhanced exploration and characterization of complex systems are central to modern science, spanning applications from biology to astrophysics and chemical design. In large many-body quantum systems, interactions…

Quantum many-body interactions can induce quantum entanglement among particles, rendering them valuable resources for quantum-enhanced sensing. In this work, we derive a universal and fundamental bound for the growth of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Hai-Long Shi , Xi-Wen Guan , Jing Yang

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