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Bohr's compound nucleus theory is one of the most important models in nuclear physics, with far-reaching applications in nuclear science and technology. This model generally assumes that the participating nucleons attain a thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-25 Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren

We explore the connection between chaos, thermalization and ergodicity in a linear chain of $N$ interacting dipoles. Starting from the ground state, and considering chains of different numbers of dipoles, we introduce single site…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-21 Rosario González-Férez , Manuel Iñarrea , J. Pablo Salas , Peter Schmelcher

Understanding the emergence of chaos in many-body quantum systems away from semi-classical limits, particularly in spatially local interacting spin Hamiltonians, has been a long-standing problem. In these intrinsically quantum regimes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-24 Christopher M. Langlett , Cheryne Jonay , Vedika Khemani , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

We examine the thermalisation/localization trade off in an interacting and disordered Kitaev model, specifically addressing whether signatures of many-body localization can coexist with the systems topological phase. Using methods…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Stephen Nulty , Jiri Vala , Dganit Meidan , Graham Kells

We study the matrix elements of few-body observables, focusing on the off-diagonal ones, in the eigenstates of the two-dimensional transverse field Ising model. By resolving all symmetries, we relate the onset of quantum chaos to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Rubem Mondaini , Marcos Rigol

We extend the notion of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) to Open Quantum Systems governed by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) Master Equation. We present evidence that the eigenstates of non-equilibrium steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-10 Sanjay Moudgalya , Trithep Devakul , D. P. Arovas , S. L. Sondhi

We use the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis to derive a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a chaotic finite-sized bath prepared in a pure state. We show that the emergence of Markovianity is controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Peter O'Donovan , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi , John Goold , Mark T. Mitchison

In this paper, a method is developed for the study of a generic small central quantum system, which is locally coupled to an environment as a many-body quantum chaotic system that satisfies the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Wen-ge Wang

Exponential growth of thermal out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is an indicator of a possible gravity dual, and a simple toy quantum model showing the growth is being looked for. We consider a system of two harmonic oscillators coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Tetsuya Akutagawa , Koji Hashimoto , Toshiaki Sasaki , Ryota Watanabe

We study the off-diagonal matrix elements of observables that break the translational symmetry of a spin-chain Hamiltonian, and as such connect energy eigenstates from different total quasimomentum sectors. We consider quantum-chaotic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Tyler LeBlond , Marcos Rigol

If and how an isolated quantum system thermalizes despite its unitary time evolution is a long-standing, open problem of many-body physics. The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) postulates that thermalization happens at the level…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-06 Anna Posazhennikova , Mauricio Trujillo-Martinez , Johann Kroha

By calculating correlation functions for the Lieb-Liniger model based on the algebraic Bethe ansatz method, we conduct a finite-size scaling analysis of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) which is considered to be a possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-06 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Yu Watanabe , Masahito Ueda

The eigenstate thermalisation hypothesis resolves the paradox of emergent thermal or classical behaviour in a closed quantum system by focussing upon local observations. This permits the remainder of the system to act as a bath,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-11 Andrew Hallam , James Morley , Andrew G. Green

At thermal equilibrium, we find that generalized susceptibilities encoding the static physical response properties of Hermitian many-electron systems possess inherent non-Hermitian (NH) matrix symmetries. This leads to the generic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Matthias Reitner , Lorenzo Crippa , Dominik Robert Fus , Jan Carl Budich , Alessandro Toschi , Giorgio Sangiovanni

We study the relative entropy of highly excited quantum states. First, we sample states from the Wishart ensemble and develop a large-N diagrammatic technique for the relative entropy. The solution is exactly expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Jonah Kudler-Flam

Classical arguments for thermalization of isolated systems do not apply in a straightforward way to the quantum case. Recently, there has been interest in diagnostics of quantum chaos in many- body systems. In the classical case, chaos is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Yuri D. Lensky , Xiao-Liang Qi

The dynamics of chaotic systems are, by definition, exponentially sensitive to initial conditions and may appear rather random. In this work, we explore relations between the chaotic dynamics of an observable and the dynamics of information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Markus J. Klug , Sergey V. Syzranov

Eigenstate thermalization has been numerically shown to occur for few-body observables in a wide range of nonintegrable models. For intensive sums of few-body observables, a weaker version of eigenstate thermalization known as weak…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Patrycja Łydżba , Rafał Świętek , Marcin Mierzejewski , Marcos Rigol , Lev Vidmar

This paper explores a novel connection between a thermodynamic and a dynamical systems perspective on emergent dynamical order. We provide evidence for a conjecture that Hamiltonian systems with mixed chaos spontaneously find regular…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-09-16 Pavel Chvykov , Jeremy England

The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) has been established as a cornerstone for understanding thermalization in quantum many-body systems. Recently, there has been growing interest in the full ETH, which extends the framework of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Merlin Füllgraf , Jochen Gemmer , Jiaozi Wang