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Does the Hamiltonian determine the tensor product structure and the 3d space?
Published 3 Jan 2024 in quant-ph, physics.hist-ph, gr-qc, math-ph, and math.MP | (2401.01793v3)
Abstract: It was proposed that the tensor product structure of the Hilbert space is uniquely determined by the Hamiltonian's spectrum, for most finite-dimensional cases satisfying certain conditions. I show that any such method would lead to infinitely many tensor product structures. The dimension of the space of solutions grows exponentially with the number of qudits. In addition, even if the result were unique, such a Hamiltonian would not entangle subsystems. These results affect the proposals to recover the 3d space from the Hamiltonian.
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