A Universal Operator Growth Hypothesis

We present a hypothesis for the universal properties of operators evolving under Hamiltonian dynamics in many-body systems. The hypothesis states that successive Lanczos coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of the Green’s functions grow linearly with rate α in generic systems, with an ex...

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Main Authors: Daniel E. Parker, Xiangyu Cao, Alexander Avdoshkin, Thomas Scaffidi, Ehud Altman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-10-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041017