Relaxation and Thermalization of Isolated Many-Body Quantum Systems
Abstract
We provide an overview of our numerical and analytical studies of isolated interacting quantum systems that are quenched out of equilibrium instantaneously. We describe the relaxation process to a new equilibrium and obtain lower bounds for the relaxation time of full random matrices and realistic systems with two-body interactions. We show that the size of the time fluctuations after relaxation decays exponentially with system size for systems without too many degeneracies. We also discuss the conditions for thermalization and demonstrate that it can happen after local and global quenches in space. The analyses are developed for systems, initial states, and few-body observables accessible to experiments with optical lattices.
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@article{arxiv.1403.6481,
title = {Relaxation and Thermalization of Isolated Many-Body Quantum Systems},
author = {E. J. Torres-Herrera and Davida Kollmar and Lea F. Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6481},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures. This is an overview of our previous works submitted to the FQMT13 special volume of the Physica Scripta