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This colloquium gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. We particularly focus on quantum quenches: the temporal evolution following a sudden or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-29 Anatoli Polkovnikov , Krishnendu Sengupta , Alessandro Silva , Mukund Vengalattore

We study the emergence over time of a universal, uniform distribution of quantum states supported on a finite subsystem, induced by projectively measuring the rest of the system. Dubbed deep thermalization, this phenomenon represents a form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Matteo Ippoliti , Wen Wei Ho

Demonstrating how microscopic dynamics cause large systems to approach thermal equilibrium remains an elusive, longstanding, and actively-pursued goal of statistical mechanics. We identify here a dynamical mechanism for thermalization in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 Stephan De Bièvre , Carlos Mejía-Monasterio , Paul E. Parris

Closed quantum systems exhibit different dynamical regimes, like Many-Body Localization or thermalization, which determine the mechanisms of spread and processing of information. Here we address the impact of these dynamical phases in…

We use thermalization indicators and numerical linked cluster expansions to probe the onset of many-body localization in a disordered one-dimensional hard-core boson model in the thermodynamic limit. We show that after equilibration…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-24 Baoming Tang , Deepak Iyer , Marcos Rigol

We study the complex quantum dynamics of a system of many interacting atoms in an elongated anharmonic trap. The system is initially in a Bose-Einstein condensed state, well described by Thomas-Fermi profile in the elongated direction and…

These Lecture Notes discuss the recent theoretical advances in the understanding of open quantum many-body physics in platforms where both dissipative and coherent processes can be tuned and controlled to a high degree. We start by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Rosario Fazio , Jonathan Keeling , Leonardo Mazza , Marco Schirò

In the framework of quantum thermodynamics, we propose a method to quantitatively describe thermodynamic quantities for out-of-equilibrium interacting many-body systems. The method is articulated in various approximation protocols which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Marcela Herrera , Roberto M. Serra , Irene D'Amico

We consider quantum nonlinear many-body systems with dissipation described within the Caldeira-Leggett model, i.e., by a nonlocal action in the path integral for the density matrix. Approximate classical-like formulas for thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Cuccoli , A. Fubini , V. Tognetti , R. Vaia

The problems with an emergent approach to quantum statistical mechanics are discussed and shown to follow from some of the same sources as those of quantum measurement. A wavefunction of an N atom solid is described in the ground and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Clifford Chafin

Studying and controlling quantum many-body interactions is fundamentally important for quantum science and related emerging technologies. Optically addressable solid-state spins offer a promising platform for exploring various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Mi Lei , Rikuto Fukumori , Chun-Ju Wu , Edwin Barnes , Sophia Economou , Joonhee Choi , Andrei Faraon

A bare description of the seminal quantum algorithm devised by Deutsch could mean more than an introduction to quantum computing. It could contribute to opening the field to interdisciplinary research.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Giuseppe Castagnoli

We study the validity of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) and its role for the occurrence of initial-state independent (ISI) equilibration in closed quantum many-body systems. Using the concept of dynamical typicality, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Abdellah Khodja , Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

Various sophisticated approximation methods exist for the description of quantum many-body systems. It was realized early on that the theoretical description can simplify considerably in one-dimensional systems and various exact solutions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 K. Schonhammer

Understanding relaxation processes is an important unsolved problem in many areas of physics. A key challenge in studying such non-equilibrium dynamics is the scarcity of experimental tools for characterizing their complex transient states.…

As recently manifested , the quench dynamics of isolated quantum systems consisting of a finite number of particles, is characterized by an exponential spreading of wave packets in the many-body Hilbert space. This happens when the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-23 Samy Mailoud , Fausto Borgonovi , Felix Izrailev

Isolated quantum many-body systems which thermalize under their own dynamics are expected to act as their own thermal baths, thereby bringing their local subsystems to thermal equilibrium. Here we show that the infinite-dimensional limit of…

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Thermodynamics of quasianti-Hermitian quaternionic systems with constant number of particles in equilibrium is studied. A toy model is introduced and the physically relevant quantities are derived. The energy fluctuation which shows that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-02 S. A. Alavi

Thermodynamics plays an important role both in the foundations of physics and in technological applications. An operational perspective adopted in recent years is to formulate it as a quantum resource theory. At the core of this theory is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Thomas Theurer , Elia Zanoni , Carlo Maria Scandolo , Gilad Gour

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…

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