Nontrivial bounds on extractable energy in quantum energy teleportation for gapped manybody systems with a unique ground state
Abstract
We establish an exponentially decaying upper bound on the average energy that can be extracted in quantum energy teleportation (QET) protocols executed on finite-range gapped lattice systems possessing a unique ground state. Under mild regularity assumptions on the Hamiltonian and uniform operator-norm bounds on the local measurement operators, there exist positive constants C and μ (determined by the spectral gap, interaction range and local operator norms) such that for any local measurement performed in a region A and any outcome-dependent local unitaries implemented in a disjoint region B separated by distance d = dist ( A , B ) one has | E A − E B | ≤ C e − μ d . The bound is nonperturbative, explicit up to model-dependent constants, and follows from the variational characterization of the ground state combined with exponential clustering implied by the spectral gap. We emphasize that the constants deteriorate as the gap closes (equivalently, as the correlation length diverges), so the estimate is intended for the gapped regime.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quantum Information and Cryptography
stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Physics Letters A
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Volume
- 584
- Pages
- 131613–131613
- Publication date
- 19 March 2026
- Language
- EN