%0 Journal Article %D 2021 %T The Lieb-Robinson light cone for power-law interactions %A Minh C. Tran %A Andrew Y. Guo %A Christopher L. Baldwin %A Adam Ehrenberg %A Alexey V. Gorshkov %A Andrew Lucas %X

The Lieb-Robinson theorem states that information propagates with a finite velocity in quantum systems on a lattice with nearest-neighbor interactions. What are the speed limits on information propagation in quantum systems with power-law interactions, which decay as 1/rα at distance r? Here, we present a definitive answer to this question for all exponents α>2d and all spatial dimensions d. Schematically, information takes time at least rmin{1,α−2d} to propagate a distance~r. As recent state transfer protocols saturate this bound, our work closes a decades-long hunt for optimal Lieb-Robinson bounds on quantum information dynamics with power-law interactions.

%8 3/29/2021 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15828