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Propagation of correlations in Local Random Quantum Circuits

Quantum Physics 2017-05-15 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We derive a dynamical bound on the propagation of correlations in local random quantum circuits - lattice spin systems where piecewise quantum operations - in space and time - occur with classical probabilities. Correlations are quantified by the Frobenius norm of the commutator of two positive operators acting on space-like separated local Hilbert spaces. For times t=O(L)t=O(L) correlations spread to distances D=t\mathcal{D}=t growing, at best, diffusively for any distance within that radius with extensively suppressed distance dependent corrections whereas for t=o(L2)t=o(L^2) all parts of the system get almost equally correlated with exponentially suppressed distance dependent corrections and approach the maximum amount of correlations that may be established asymptotically.

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@article{arxiv.1506.03323,
  title  = {Propagation of correlations in Local Random Quantum Circuits},
  author = {Siddhartha Santra and Radhakrishnan Balu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03323},
  year   = {2017}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures. Updated abstract

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