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Despite its importance to experiments, numerical simulations, and the development of theoretical models, self-averaging in many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium remains underinvestigated. Usually, in the chaotic regime,…

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We investigate how the dynamical fluctuations of many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium can be mitigated when they are opened to a dephasing environment. We consider the survival probability (spectral form factor with a filter)…