Information propagation in a non-local model with emergent locality

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit a "relatively local" model proposed in arXiv:1811.07241, where locality and dimensionality of space only emerges from the entanglement structure of the state the system is in. Various quantities such as butterfly velocity/ entanglement speed can be defined similarly, at least in the regime where locality is well defined and a light cone structure emerges in the correlation between sites. We find that the relations observed between them in local models arXiv:1908.06993 are not respected. In particular, we conjecture that the hierarchy of the interaction over different distances provides different "layers" of light-cones. When long range interactions are sufficiently suppressed, the effective light cones are dominated by linear behaviors with little remnant of non-locality. This could potentially be used as a physical smoking gun for emergent locality in non-local models.