The dynamical $\alpha$-Rényi entropies of local Hamiltonians grow at most linearly in time

Abstract

We consider a generic one dimensional spin system of length $L$, arbitrarily large, with strictly local interactions, for example nearest neighbor, and prove that the dynamical $\alpha$-Rényi entropies, $0<\alpha \le 1$, of an initial product state grow at most linearly in time. This result arises from a general relation among dynamical $\alpha$-Rényi entropies and Lieb-Robinson bounds. We extend our bound on the dynamical generation of entropy to systems with exponential decay of interactions, for values of $\alpha$ close enough to $1$, and moreover to initial pure states with low entanglement, of order $\log L$, that are typically represented by critical states. We establish that low entanglement states have an efficient MPS representation that persists at least up to times of order $\log L$. The main technical tools are the Lieb-Robinson bounds, to locally approximate the dynamics of the spin chain, a strict upper bound of Audenaert on $\alpha$-Rényi entropies and a bound on their concavity. Such a bound, that we provide in an appendix, can be of independent interest.

arXiv commentv4: minor improvements throughout, accepted by PRX

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