State dependent spread of entanglement in relatively local Hamiltonians
Abstract
Relatively local Hamiltonians are a class of background independent non-local
Hamiltonians from which local theories emerge within a set of short-range
entangled states. The dimension, topology and geometry of the emergent local
theory is determined by the initial state to which the Hamiltonian is applied.
In this paper, we study dynamical properties of a simple relatively local
Hamiltonian for N scalar fields in the large N limit. It is shown that the
coordinate speeds at which entanglement spreads and local disturbance
propagates in space strongly depend on state in the relatively local
Hamiltonian.