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A Fluorescence-based Assay of Phospholipid Scramblase Activity
Published on: September 20, 2016
Signaling and scrambling with strongly long-range interactions
Andrew Y Guo1,2, Minh C Tran1,2,3, Andrew M Childs1,4,5
1Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Abstract:
Strongly long-range interacting quantum systems-those with interactions decaying as a power law 1/r α in the distance r on a D-dimensional lattice for α ⩽ D-have received significant interest in recent years. They are present in leading experimental platforms for quantum computation and simulation, as well as in theoretical models of quantum-information scrambling and fast entanglement creation. Since no notion of locality is expected in such systems, a general understanding of their dynamics is lacking. In a step towards rectifying this problem, we prove two Lieb-Robinson-type bounds that constrain the time for signaling and scrambling in strongly long-range interacting systems, for which no tight bounds were previously known. Our first bound applies to systems mappable to free-particle Hamiltonians with long-range hopping, and is saturable for α ⩽ D/2. Our second bound pertains to generic long-range interacting spin Hamiltonians and gives a tight lower bound for the signaling time to extensive subsets of the system for all α< D. This many-site signaling time lower bounds the scrambling time in strongly long-range interacting systems.
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