Quantifying fermionic interactions from the violation of Wick's theorem
arXiv:2203.04870 · doi:10.22331/q-2022-10-13-840
Abstract
In contrast to interacting systems, the ground state of free systems has a highly ordered pattern of quantum correlations, as witnessed by Wick's decomposition. Here, we quantify the effect of interactions by measuring the violation they cause on Wick's decomposition. In particular, we express this violation in terms of the low entanglement spectrum of fermionic systems. Moreover, we establish a relation between the Wick's theorem violation and the interaction distance, the smallest distance between the reduced density matrix of the system and that of the optimal free model closest to the interacting one. Our work provides the means to quantify the effect of interactions in physical systems though measurable quantum correlations.
arXiv comment7 pages + 2 pages Appendix; minor errors corrected
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