Equation 5 · Every Crystal Has Its Own Speed of Light
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capped by an exponential in the distance between the sites minus the cone’s own reach. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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capped by an exponential in the distance between the sites minus the cone’s own reach.
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Stated formally, the bound says that for two operators and acting on well-separated lattice sites x and y , the size of their commutator after evolving one of them forward in time t is capped by an exponential in the distance between the sites minus the cone’s own reach:
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- [1] The Finite Group Velocity of Quantum Spin Systems ↗
- [3] Observation of Entanglement Propagation in a Quantum Many-Body System ↗
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