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We study entanglement entropy of unusual $\mathbb{Z}_N$ topological stabilizer codes which admit fractional excitations with restricted mobility constraint in a manner akin to fracton topological phases. It is widely known that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-30 Hiromi Ebisu

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is the leading interpretation in our current understanding of quantum thermalization. Recent results uncovered strong connections between quantum correlations in thermalizing systems and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Gabriel O. Alves , Felix Fritzsch , Pieter W. Claeys

The question of thermalization in quantum many-body systems has long been studied through the properties of matrix elements of operators corresponding to local observables. More recently, the focus has shifted to the dynamics of operators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam , Jan M. Rost , Stuart C. Althorpe

We investigate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) of highly excited descendant states in two-dimensional large central charge $c$ conformal field theory. We use operator product expansion of twist operators to calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-29 Wu-zhong Guo , Feng-Li Lin , Jiaju Zhang

The presence of symmetries can lead to nontrivial dynamics of operator entanglement in open quantum many-body systems, which characterizes the cost of an matrix product density operator (MPDO) representation of the density matrix in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Lin Zhang

We study the quantum Fisher information (QFI) and, thus, the multipartite entanglement structure of thermal pure states in the context of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH). In both the canonical ensemble and the ETH, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-04 Marlon Brenes , Silvia Pappalardi , John Goold , Alessandro Silva

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

We verify that the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) holds universally for locally interacting quantum many-body systems. Introducing random-matrix ensembles with interactions, we numerically obtain a distribution of maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Shoki Sugimoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda

We put forward a Monte Carlo algorithm that samples the Euclidean time operator growth dynamics at infinite temperature. Crucially, our approach is free from the numerical sign problem for a broad family of quantum many-body spin systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Ayush De , Umberto Borla , Xiangyu Cao , Snir Gazit

The entangling power and operator entanglement entropy are state independent measures of entanglement. Their growth and saturation is examined in the time-evolution operator of quantum many-body systems that can range from the integrable to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Rajarshi Pal , Arul Lakshminarayan

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis provides a framework for understanding thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems by characterizing statistical properties of local observables in energy eigenstates. Here we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Pavel Orlov , Rustem Sharipov , Enej Ilievski

We investigate the emergence of thermalization in a quantum field-theoretic model mimicking the production of jets in QCD -- the massive Schwinger model coupled to external sources. Specifically, we compute the expectation values of local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-19 Adrien Florio , David Frenklakh , Sebastian Grieninger , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Andrea Palermo , Shuzhe Shi

We compute exactly the von Neumann entanglement entropy of the eta-pairing states - a large set of exact excited eigenstates of the Hubbard Hamiltonian. For the singlet eta-pairing states the entropy scales with the logarithm of the spatial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-20 Oskar Vafek , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

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

It is commonly believed that quantum isolated systems satisfying the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) are diffusive. We show that this assumption is too restrictive, since there are systems that are asymptotically in a thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-25 David J. Luitz , Yevgeny Bar Lev

The dynamics of an isolated quantum system is coherent and unitary. Weak coupling to the environment leads to decoherence, which is traditionally modeled with a Lindblad equation for the system's density matrix. Starting from a pure state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 John Gunderson , Jacob Muldoon , Kater W. Murch , Yogesh N. Joglekar

A recent study of R\'enyi entanglement entropy in the SYK chain of Majorana fermions suggested that the model does not rapidly thermalize, despite being maximally chaotic. In this work, I examine the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Seyyed M. H. Halataei

We investigate a class of periodically driven many-body systems that allows us to extend the phenomenon of prethermalization to the vicinity of isolated intermediate-to-low drive frequencies away from the high-frequency limit. We provide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Christoph Fleckenstein , Marin Bukov

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 explore how interactions can facilitate classical like dynamics in models with sequentially activated hopping. Specifically, we add local and short range interaction terms to the Hamiltonian, and ask for conditions ensuring the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Matthew Wampler , Israel Klich