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We study the entropy of small subsystems in thermalizing quantum many-body systems governed by local Hamiltonians. Assuming the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, we derive an analytical formula for the von Neumann entropy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-03 Yichen Huang

Work extraction from the Gibbs ensemble by a cyclic operation is impossible, as represented by the second law of thermodynamics. On the other hand, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) states that just a single energy eigenstate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Kazuya Kaneko , Eiki Iyoda , Takahiro Sagawa

In this paper we provide a universal description of the behavior of the basic operators of the Schwarzian theory in pure states. When the pure states are energy eigenstates, expectation values of non-extensive operators are thermal. On the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Pranjal Nayak , Julian Sonner , Manuel Vielma

This work investigates the relationship between quantum chaos and thermalization in a three-species Bose-Josephson Junction (BJJ) with mutual interactions, without coupling to any external environment. The analysis is grounded in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Francesco Di Menna , Sergio Ciuchi , Simone Paganelli

To bypass the reliance on local observables in verifying the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), we introduce an observable-independent measure of distinguishability based on the variance of a rescaled local operator. We establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zhiqiang Huang

Eigenstate thermalization refers to the property that an energy eigenstate of a many-body system is indistinguishable from a thermal equilibrium ensemble at the same energy as far as expectation values of local observables are concerned. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Lennart Dabelow , Christian Eidecker-Dunkel , Peter Reimann

In this work, we use quantum complexity theory to quantify the difficulty of distinguishing eigenstates obeying the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH). After identifying simple operators with an algebra of low-energy observables and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ning Bao , Jason Pollack , David Wakeham , Elizabeth Wildenhain

Whether or not the thermodynamic entropy is equal to the entanglement entropy of an eigenstate, is of fundamental interest, and is closely related to the `Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH)'. However, this has never been exploited…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-09 Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Auditya Sharma

In a generic random system, the coexistence of extended and localized states can be evidenced by the subextensive width of energy distribution of a physical initial state in, for example, the quantum quenches which involving the local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-28 Chen-Huan Wu

We initiate a systematic study of high energy matrix elements of local operators in 2d CFT. Knowledge of these is required in order to determine whether the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) can hold in such theories. Most high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-30 Mert Besken , Shouvik Datta , Per Kraus

Significant attention has been devoted to the problem of thermalization of observables in isolated quantum setups by individual eigenstates. Here, we address this issue from an open quantum system perspective, examining an isolated setup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Krzysztof Ptaszynski , Massimiliano Esposito

We investigate the dynamics of the entanglement Hamiltonian in a system of one-dimensional free fermions, following a local joining quench of two initially disconnected half-chains in their ground states. Applying techniques of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Riccarda Bonsignori , Viktor Eisler

We investigate the eigenstate thermalization in terms of a Hermitian operator and the complex eigenkets that follows Gaussian ensemble distribution. With the non-Hermitian open bipartite system, there are, however, some global restrictions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-09 Chen-Huan Wu

We investigate the second quantization form of the entanglement Hamiltonian (EH) of various subregions for the ground-state of several interacting lattice fermions and spin models. The relation between the EH and the model Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahdieh Pourjafarabadi , Hanieh Najafzadeh , Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi , Abolhassan Vaezi

Studying noncommuting conserved quantities, or 'charges,' has revealed a conceptual puzzle: noncommuting charges hinder thermalization in some ways yet promote it in others. While many quantum systems thermalize according to the Eigenstate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Shayan Majidy

In the ongoing discussion on thermalization in closed quantum many-body systems, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) has recently been proposed as a universal concept which attracted considerable attention. So far this concept…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-04 Robin Steinigeweg , Abdelah Khodja , Hendrik Niemeyer , Christian Gogolin , Jochen Gemmer

A strongly non-integrable system is expected to satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, which states that the expectation value of an observable in an energy eigenstate is the same as the thermal value. This must be revised if the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-04 Keith R. Fratus , Mark Srednicki

We study thermalization in a disordered one-dimensional interacting bosonic system described by the Aubry-Andre model using full exact diagonalization. We find a broad chaotic energy window where the system's eigenstates satisfy the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Javier de la Cruz , Carlos Diaz-Mejia , Sergio Lerma-Hernandez , Jorge G. Hirsch

The entanglement Hamiltonian (EH) provides the most comprehensive characterization of bipartite entanglement in many-body quantum systems. Ground states of local Hamiltonians inherit this locality, resulting in EHs that are dominated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Federico Rottoli , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

It is believed that thermalization in closed systems of interacting particles can occur only when the eigenstates are fully delocalized and chaotic in the preferential (unperturbed) basis of the total Hamiltonian. Here we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Fausto Borgonovi , Felix M. Izrailev