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Gapped ground state phases of lattice systems --- Stability of the bulk gap
Probability| Speaker: | Bruno Nachtergaele, UCD |
| Location: | Zoom |
| Start time: | Wed, Jan 20 2021, 4:10PM |
I will give an overview of stability results for the spectral gap above the ground states of quantum lattice systems obtained in the past decade and explain the overall strategy introduced by Bravyi, Hastings, and Michalakis. A new result I will present proves the stability of the bulk gap for infinite systems with an approach that bypasses possible gapless boundary modes (joint work with Bob Sims and Amanda Young).