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The recent discovery that for large Hilbert spaces, almost all (that is, typical) Hamiltonians have eigenstates that place small subsystems in thermal equilibrium, has shed much light on the origins of irreversibility and thermalization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shawn Dubey , Luciano Silvestri , Justin Finn , Sai Vinjanampathy , Kurt Jacobs

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have become established as a tool to characterise quantum information dynamics and thermalisation in interacting quantum many-body systems. It was recently argued that the expected exponential growth of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-21 Marlon Brenes , Silvia Pappalardi , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold , Alessandro Silva

According to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), the eigenstate-to-eigenstate fluctuations of expectation values of local observables should decrease with increasing system size. In approaching the thermodynamic limit - the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-14 Goran Nakerst , Masudul Haque

Entanglement entropy is a fundamental diagnostic for quantum chaos, typically exhibiting volume-law scaling in highly excited eigenstates of chaotic many-body systems. In this work, we present a striking counterexample: a Floquet-driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Chunyin Chen , Sizhe Yan , Biao Wu

Inspired by the avalanche scenario for many-body localization (MBL) instability, we reverse the conventional set-up and ask whether a large weakly-disordered chain can thermalize a smaller, strongly-disordered chain when the composite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Soumya Kanti Pal , C L Sriram , Shamik Gupta

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

Thermalization of isolated quantum systems is a long-standing fundamental problem where different mechanisms are proposed over time. We contribute to this discussion by classifying the diverse quench dynamical behaviours of spin-1…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Ceren B. Dağ , Sheng-Tao Wang , L. -M. Duan

In this work, we study the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) and holographic complexity (HC) for three-dimensional dyonic quantum black holes, incorporating corrections arising from bulk quantum fields in the setup of double…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Sanhita Parihar , Gurmeet Singh Punia

We present a comprehensive analytical study of a variation of the eigenvector ensemble initially proposed by Deutsch for the foundations of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH). This ensemble, called the $C$-ensemble, incorporates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 William E. Salazar , Juan Diego Urbina , Javier Madroñero

With increasing subsystem size and energy, bipartite entanglement entropies of energy eigenstates cross over from the groundstate scaling to a volume law. In previous work, we pointed out that, when strong or weak eigenstate thermalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-09 Qiang Miao , Thomas Barthel

The transition from a many-body localized phase to a thermalizing one is a dynamical quantum phase transition which lies outside the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics. We provide a detailed study of the critical properties of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-27 Vedika Khemani , S. P. Lim , D. N. Sheng , David A. Huse

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

Ergodic quantum many-body systems satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). However, strong disorder can destroy ergodicity through many-body localization (MBL) -- at least in one dimensional systems -- leading to a clear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-18 Luis Colmenarez , Paul A. McClarty , Masudul Haque , David J. Luitz

Time dynamics of isolated many-body quantum systems has long been an elusive subject. Very recently, however, meaningful experimental studies of the problem have finally become possible, stimulating theoretical interest as well. Progress in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-11 Marcos Rigol , Vanja Dunjko , Maxim Olshanii

Ergodicity of quantum dynamics is often defined through statistical properties of energy eigenstates, as exemplified by Berry's conjecture in single-particle quantum chaos and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in many-body settings.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Saúl Pilatowsky-Cameo , Ceren B. Dag , Wen Wei Ho , Soonwon Choi

Exactly solvable models that exhibit quantum signatures of classical chaos are both rare as well as important - more so in view of the fact that the mechanisms for ergodic behavior and thermalization in isolated quantum systems and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Shruti Dogra , Vaibhav Madhok , Arul Lakshminarayan

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in chaotic two dimensional CFTs is subtle due to infinitely many conserved KdV charges. Previous works have demonstrated that primary CFT eigenstates have flat entanglement spectrum, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Liangyu Chen , Anatoly Dymarsky , Jia Tian , Huajia Wang

We propose a phase-space Wigner harmonics entropy measure for many-body quantum dynamical complexity. This measure, which reduces to the well known measure of complexity in classical systems and which is valid for both pure and mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Jiangbin Gong

The entropy shows an unavoidable tendency of disorder in thermostatistics according to the second thermodynamics law. This provides a minimization entropy principle for quantum thermostatistics with the von Neumann entropy and nonextensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 M. X. Luo , X. Wang

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