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量子多体系统中关联的类光锥扩展

Light-cone-like spreading of correlations in a quantum many-body system

Marc Cheneau, Peter Barmettler, Dario Poletti, Manuel Endres, Peter Schauß, Takeshi Fukuhara, Christian Gross, Immanuel Bloch, Corinna Kollath, Stefan Kuhr

摘要:

在量子多体系统中,相关性的传播速度有多快?基于Lieb和Robinson的开创性工作,最近已经表明,几个相互作用的多体系统表现出有效的光锥,限制了相关性的传播速度。这种“光速”的存在对凝聚态物理和量子信息有着深远的意义,但从未在实验中观察到。在这里,我们报告的时间分辨检测的相互作用的量子多体系统中的传播相关性。通过猝灭光晶格中的一维量子气体,我们揭示了准粒子对如何以有限的速度在系统中传输关联,从而产生量子动力学的有效光锥。我们的研究结果打开了重要的视角,了解放松封闭的量子系统远离平衡,以及工程高效的量子信道所需的快速量子计算。

英文摘要:

How fast can correlations spread in a quantum many-body system? Based on the seminal work by Lieb and Robinson, it has recently been shown that several interacting many-body systems exhibit an effective light cone that bounds the propagation speed of correlations. The existence of such a "speed of light" has profound implications for condensed matter physics and quantum information, but has never been observed experimentally. Here we report on the time-resolved detection of propagating correlations in an interacting quantum many-body system. By quenching a one-dimensional quantum gas in an optical lattice, we reveal how quasiparticle pairs transport correlations with a finite velocity across the system, resulting in an effective light cone for the quantum dynamics. Our results open important perspectives for understanding relaxation of closed quantum systems far from equilibrium as well as for engineering efficient quantum channels necessary for fast quantum computations.

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