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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 167201 (2007) [4 pages]

Bounds on the Speed of Information Propagation in Disordered Quantum Spin Chains

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Christian K. Burrell and Tobias J. Osborne
Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom

Received 4 May 2007; revised 9 August 2007; published 16 October 2007

We investigate the propagation of information through the disordered XY model. We find that all correlations, both classical and quantum, are exponentially suppressed outside of an effective light cone whose radius grows at most logarithmically with |t|.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.167201
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.167201
PACS:
75.10.Pq, 03.67.−a, 72.15.Rn, 75.40.Mg