Correlation Length versus Gap in Frustration-Free Systems. 
Hastings established exponential decay of correlations for ground states of gapped quantum many-body systems.  A ground state of a (geometrically) local Hamiltonian with spectral gap ε has correlation length ξ upper bounded as ξ=O(1/ε).  In general this bound cannot be improved.  Here we study the scaling of the correlation length as a function of the spectral gap in frustration-free local Hamiltonians, and we prove a tight bound ξ=O(1/sqrt[ε]) in this setting.  This highlights a fundamental difference between frustration-free and frustrated systems near criticality.  The result is obtained using an improved version of the combinatorial proof of correlation decay due to Aharonov, Arad, Vazirani, and Landau.