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Inside quantum black boxes

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On the face of it, characterizing quantum dynamics in the exponentially large Hilbert space of a many-body system might require prohibitively many experiments. In fact, the locality of physical interactions means that it can be done efficiently.

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Fig. 1: Geometrically local Hamiltonians defined by weighted local terms.

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Dunjko, V. Inside quantum black boxes. Nat. Phys. 17, 880–881 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01246-8

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