Spectral gap (physics)

In quantum mechanics, the spectral gap of a system is the energy difference between its ground state and its first excited state.[1][2] The mass gap is the spectral gap between the vacuum and the lightest particle. A Hamiltonian with a spectral gap is called a gapped Hamiltonian, and those that do not are called gapless.

In solid-state physics, the most important spectral gap is for the many-body system of electrons in a solid material, in which case it is often known as an energy gap.

In quantum many-body systems, ground states of gapped Hamiltonians have exponential decay of correlations.[3][4][5]

In 2015, it was shown that the problem of determining the existence of a spectral gap is undecidable in two or more dimensions.[6][7] The authors used an aperiodic tiling of quantum Turing machines and showed that this hypothetical material becomes gapped if and only if the machine halts.[8] The one-dimensional case was also proven undecidable in 2020 by constructing a chain of interacting qudits divided into blocks that gain energy if and only if they represent a full computation by a Turing machine, and showing that this system becomes gapped if and only if the machine does not halt.[9]

See also

References

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  5. ^ Gosset, David; Huang, Yichen (3 March 2016). "Correlation Length versus Gap in Frustration-Free Systems". Physical Review Letters. 116 (9) 097202. arXiv:1509.06360. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116i7202G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.097202. PMID 26991196.
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