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We derive forms of light-state dominance for correlators in CFT$_d$, making precise the sense in which correlators can be approximated by the contribution of light operator exchanges. Our main result is that the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-13 Per Kraus , Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We study twist operators in higher dimensional CFT's. In particular, we express their conformal dimension in terms of the energy density for the CFT in a particular thermal ensemble. We construct an expansion of the conformal dimension in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

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

There is much interest in how quantum systems thermalize after a sudden change, because unitary evolution should preclude thermalization. The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis resolves this because all observables for quantum states in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-22 H. Fotso , K. Mikelsons , J. K. freericks

In an isolated quantum many-body system undergoing unitary evolution, we study the thermalization of a subsystem, treating the rest of the system as a bath. In this setting, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) was proposed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-30 Aram W. Harrow , Yichen Huang

We elucidate how the presence of higher-form symmetries affects the dynamics of thermalization in isolated quantum systems. Under reasonable assumptions, we analytically show that a $p$-form symmetry in a $(d+1)$-dimensional quantum field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-10 Osamu Fukushima , Ryusuke Hamazaki

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis provides to date the most successful description of thermalization in isolated quantum systems by conjecturing statistical properties of matrix elements of typical operators in the (quasi-)energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-30 Felix Fritzsch , Tomaž Prosen

One explanation of the thermalization of an isolated quantum system is the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, which posits that all energy eigenstates are thermal. Based on this idea, we use dynamical typicality to predict the thermal…

We establish an analytical criterion for dynamical thermalization within harmonic systems, applicable to both classical and quantum models. Specifically, we prove that thermalization of various observables, such as particle energies in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-29 Marco Cattaneo , Marco Baldovin , Dario Lucente , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Angelo Vulpiani

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) postulates that the energy eigenstates of an isolated many-body system are thermal, i.e., each of them already yields practically the same expectation values as the microcanonical ensemble at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-29 Peter Reimann

Topological symmetry operators of holographic large $N$ CFT$_D$'s are dual to dynamical branes in the gravity dual AdS$_{D+1}$. We use this correspondence to establish a dictionary between thermal expectation values of symmetry operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

We compute the non-zero temperature conductivity of conserved flavor currents in conformal field theories (CFTs) in 2+1 spacetime dimensions. At frequencies much greater than the temperature, $\hbar\omega>> k_B T$, the $\omega$ dependence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-03 Emanuel Katz , Subir Sachdev , Erik S. Sorensen , William Witczak-Krempa

We advance the study of flat space holography by computing the entanglement entropy of highly excited states in two-dimensional Carrollian/Galilean Conformal Field Theories (C/G CFTs). Our approach is centered on a novel, physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Peng-Xiang Hao , Shunta Takahashi

Inspired by the holographic computation of large interval entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal field theory at high temperature, it was proposed that the thermal entropy is related to the entanglement entropy as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-01 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

From the viewpoint of AdS/CFT correspondence, we investigate the holographic thermalization process in a four dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-axions gravity theory, which is considered as a simple bulk theory dual to a boundary theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-16 Yong-Zhuang Li , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We revisit the calculation of spectral densities and heavy-heavy-light (HHL) operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients in three-dimensional conformal field theories using thermal one-point functions on $S^1 \times S^2$. A central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Ilija Burić , Francesco Mangialardi , Francesco Russo , Volker Schomerus , Alessandro Vichi

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) attempts to bridge the gap between quantum mechanical and statistical mechanical descriptions of isolated quantum systems. Here, we define unbiased measures for how well the ETH works in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi

A plausible mechanism of thermalization in isolated quantum systems is based on the strong version of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), which states that all the energy eigenstates in the microcanonical energy shell have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Toru Yoshizawa , Eiki Iyoda , Takahiro Sagawa

Within a holographic model, we calculate the time evolution of 2-point and 1-point correlation functions (of selected operators) within a charged strongly coupled system of many particles. That system is thermalizing from an anisotropic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Casey Cartwright , Matthias Kaminski

Thermal two-point functions in holographic CFTs receive contributions from two parts. One part comes from the identity, the stress tensor and multi-stress tensors and constitutes the stress-tensor sector. The other part consists of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Ilija Burić , Ivan Gusev , Andrei Parnachev