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Lie-Schwinger block-diagonalization and gapped quantum chains with unbounded interactions

Mathematical Physics 2020-12-30 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We study quantum chains whose Hamiltonians are perturbations by interactions of short range of a Hamiltonian that does not couple the degrees of freedom located at different sites of the chain and has a strictly positive energy gap above its ground-state energy. For interactions that are form-bounded w.r.t. the on-site Hamiltonian terms, we prove that the spectral gap of the perturbed Hamiltonian above its ground-state energy is bounded from below by a positive constant uniformly in the length of the chain, for small values of a coupling constant. In our proof we use a novel method introduced in [FP] and based on local Lie-Schwinger conjugations of the Hamiltonians associated with connected subsets of the chain.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07450,
  title  = {Lie-Schwinger block-diagonalization and gapped quantum chains with unbounded interactions},
  author = {S. Del Vecchio and J. Fröhlich and A. Pizzo and S. Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07450},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1812.02457, arXiv:1908.07486

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