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This paper derives master equations for an atomic two-level system for a large set of unitarily equivalent Hamiltonians without employing the rotating wave and certain Markovian approximations. Each Hamiltonian refers to physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Adam Stokes , Andreas Kurcz , Tim P. Spiller , Almut Beige

We study the modular Hamiltonian associated with a Gaussian state on the Weyl algebra. We obtain necessary/sufficient criteria for the local equivalence of Gaussian states, independently of the classical results by Araki and Yamagami, Van…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Roberto Longo

The No Low-energy Trivial States (NLTS) conjecture of Freedman and Hastings, 2014 -- which posits the existence of a local Hamiltonian with a super-constant quantum circuit lower bound on the complexity of all low-energy states --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Anurag Anshu , Chinmay Nirkhe

We prove concentration bounds for the following classes of quantum states: (i) output states of shallow quantum circuits, answering an open question from [DPMRF22]; (ii) injective matrix product states; (iii) output states of dense…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Anurag Anshu , Tony Metger

We characterize the quantum states dual to entanglement wedges in arbitrary spacetimes, in settings where the matter entropy can be neglected compared to the geometric entropy. In AdS/CFT, such states obey special entropy inequalities known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Raphael Bousso , Sami Kaya

The local Hamiltonian problem plays the equivalent role of SAT in quantum complexity theory. Understanding the complexity of the intermediate case in which the constraints are quantum but all local terms in the Hamiltonian commute, is of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Dorit Aharonov , Lior Eldar

The ground state energy and the free energy of Quantum Local Hamiltonians are fundamental quantities in quantum many-body physics, however, it is QMA-Hard to estimate them in general. In this paper, we develop new techniques to find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Thiago Bergamaschi

The area law for entanglement entropy fundamentally reflects the complexity of quantum many-body systems, demonstrating ground states of local Hamiltonians to be represented with low computational complexity. While this principle is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Donghoon Kim , Tomotaka Kuwahara

Calculation of topological order parameters, such as the topological entropy and topological mutual information, are used to determine whether states possess topological order. Their calculation is expected to give reliable results when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-16 James R. Wootton

The quantum theory of near horizon regions of spacetimes with classical spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic Friedman-Robertson-Walker geometry can be approximately described by a two dimensional conformal field theory. The central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ram Brustein

We consider the relationship between correlations and entanglement in gapped quantum systems, with application to matrix product state representations. We prove that there exist gapped one-dimensional local Hamiltonians such that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. B. Hastings

Our current understanding of quantum chaos in many-body quantum systems hinges on the random matrix theory(RMT) behavior of eigenstates and their energy level statistics. Although RMT has been remarkably successful in describing `coarse'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-05 Christopher M. Langlett , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

We write down the global Hamiltonian of conformal field theory (CFT) in finite volume in terms of the modular Hamiltonian of the vacuum reduced to a local ball-shaped region, and use it to propose local approximations to the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Yidong Chen , Nima Lashkari , Kwing Lam Leung

Extending our previous work, we study the relative entropy between the reduced density matrices obtained from globally excited states in conformal field theories of arbitrary dimensions. We find a general formula in the small subsystem size…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Gábor Sárosi , Tomonori Ugajin

We investigate the Holographic Entanglement Entropy proposal in the context of the (3+1)-dimensional topological black hole. In contrast to the well-studied (2+1)-dimensional case, the maximal extension for this black hole includes only a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-18 Zachary Polonsky , Alex Flournoy

We develop a method to calculate generic time-dependent correlation functions for inhomogeneous quantum quenches in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) induced by sudden Hamiltonian deformations that modulate the energy density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-06 Xinyu Liu , Alexander McDonald , Tokiro Numasawa , Biao Lian , Shinsei Ryu

We begin by deriving bounds for the entanglement of a spin with an (adjacent and non-adjacent) interval of spins in an arbitrary pure Finitely Correlated States (FCS). The bounds we derive become exact in the case where one considers the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 Spyridon Michalakis

A holographic time band is a causal incomplete boundary spacetime subregion whose causal wedge is a causal complete bulk spacetime subregion. In an AdS$_3$ spacetime with a specifically modified IR geometry, its causal wedge coincides with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-21 Xin-Xiang Ju , Bo-Hao Liu , Ya-Wen Sun , Yang Zhao

This paper studies composite quantum systems, like atom-cavity systems and coupled optical resonators, in the absence of external driving by resorting to methods from quantum field theory. Going beyond the rotating wave approximation, it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andreas Kurcz , Antonio Capolupo , Almut Beige , Emilio Del Giudice , Giuseppe Vitiello