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We prove that quantum information propagates with a finite velocity in any model of interacting bosons whose (possibly time-dependent) Hamiltonian contains spatially local single-boson hopping terms along with arbitrary local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Chao Yin , Andrew Lucas

We revisit key notions related to the evolution of quantum information in few-body quantum mechanics (fbQM) and, for a wide class of dispersion relations, prove uniform bounds on the maximal speed of propagation of quantum information for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Israel Michael Sigal , Xiaoxu Wu

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

The Lieb-Robinson bound shows that the speed of propagating information in a nonrelativistic quantum lattice system is bounded by a finite velocity, which entails the clustering of correlations. In this paper, we extend the Lieb-Robinson…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-20 Zhiqiang Huang , Xiao-Kan Guo

We derive a Lieb-Robinson bound for the propagation of spin correlations in a model of spins interacting through a bosonic lattice field, which satisfies itself a Lieb-Robinson bound in the absence of spin-boson couplings. We apply these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 J. Juenemann , A. Cadarso , D. Perez-Garcia , A. Bermudez , J. J. Garcia-Ripoll

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

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…

Recent works have revealed the intricate effect of long-range interactions on information transport in quantum many-body systems: In $D$ spatial dimensions, interactions decaying as a power-law $r^{-\alpha}$ with $\alpha > 2 D+1$ exhibit a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Marius Lemm , Tom Wessel

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

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

The quantum kicked rotor is well-known to display dynamical localization in the non-interacting limit. In the interacting case, while the mean-field (Gross-Pitaevskii) approximation displays a destruction of dynamical localization, its fate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-13 Radu Chicireanu , Adam Rançon

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

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

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

The Lieb-Robinson correlation function is the norm of a commutator between local operators acting on separate subsystems at different times. This provides a useful state-independent measure for characterizing the specifically quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Brendan J. Mahoney , Craig S. Lent

Strongly long-range interacting quantum systems---those with interactions decaying as a power-law $1/r^{\alpha}$ in the distance $r$ on a $D$-dimensional lattice for $\alpha\le D$---have received significant interest in recent years. They…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Andrew Y. Guo , Minh C. Tran , Andrew M. Childs , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Zhe-Xuan Gong

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

The transverse-field Ising model is useful for studying interacting qubit arrays. The Lieb--Robinson correlation function can be used to characterize the propagation of quantum information in Ising chains. Considerable work has been done to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Brendan J. Mahoney , Craig S. Lent

Lieb-Robinson bounds are powerful analytical tools for constraining the dynamic and static properties of non-relativistic quantum systems. Recently, a complete picture for closed systems that evolve unitarily in time has been achieved. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Andrew Y. Guo , Simon Lieu , Minh C. Tran , Alexey V. Gorshkov

The speed of information propagation in long-range interacting quantum systems is limited by Lieb-Robinson-type bounds, whose tightness can be established by finding specific quantum state-transfer protocols. Previous works have given…