Zhi-Yan Ding

Spectral Analysis Beyond the Spectral Gap: Rapid Mixing of Quantum Gibbs Samplers in One Dimension

We prove rapid mixing of a quantum Gibbs sampler for general one-dimensional non-commuting local spin systems at every fixed positive temperature. In particular, for a system of $n$ sites, we show that the Kubo--Martin--Schwinger (KMS) detailed-balanced Gibbs sampler of~\cite{CKG2023} converges from any initial state t...