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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

In a recent Letter [PhysRevLett.119.030601 (2017), arXiv:1702.08227], Shiraishi and Mori claim to provide a general method for constructing local Hamiltonians that do not exhibit eigenstate thermalization. We argue that the claim is based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-19 Rubem Mondaini , Krishnanand Mallayya , Lea F. Santos , Marcos Rigol

This work aims at understanding the interplay between the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH), initial state independent equilibration and quantum chaos in systems that do not have a direct classical counterpart. It is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Abdellah Khodja , Daniel Schmidtke , Jochen Gemmer

For the typical quantum many-body systems that obey the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), we argue that the entanglement entropy of (almost) all energy eigenstates is described by a single crossover function. The ETH implies that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-26 Qiang Miao , Thomas Barthel

In a generic random system, the coexistence of extended and localized states can be evidenced by the subextensive width of energy distribution of a physical initial state in, for example, the quantum quenches which involving the local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-28 Chen-Huan Wu

Motivated by recent ion experiments on tunable long-range interacting quantum systems [B.Neyenhuis et al., Sci.Adv.3, e1700672 (2017, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700672 )], we test the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-27 Shoki Sugimoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda

We report an example of a many-body system, derived from the double kicked top (DKT), with non-chaotic yet mean-ergodic dynamics that displays \textit{strong} eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in the quantum regime. The analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Avadhut V. Purohit , Harshit Sharma , Udaysinh T. Bhosale

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for translation invariant quantum spin systems has been proved recently by using random matrices. In this paper, we study the subsystem version of eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for translation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Zhiqiang Huang , Xiao-Kan Guo

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

Eigenstate thermalization is widely accepted as the mechanism behind thermalization in generic isolated quantum systems. Using the example of a single magnetic defect embedded in the integrable spin-1/2 $XXZ$ chain, we show that locally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-14 Marlon Brenes , Tyler LeBlond , John Goold , Marcos Rigol

The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis implies that for a thermodynamically large system in one of its eigenstates, the reduced density matrix describing any finite subsystem is determined solely by a set of {\it relevant} conserved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Sourav Nandy , Arnab Sen , Arnab Das , Abhishek Dhar

We consider the thermalization hypothesis of pure states in quantum Ising chain with $Z_2$ symmetry, XXZ chain with $U(1)$ symmetry, and XXX chain with $SU(2)$ symmetries. Two kinds of pure states are considered: the energy eigenstates and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Feng-Li Lin , Jhh-Jing Hong , Ching-Yu Huang

Work extraction from the Gibbs ensemble by a cyclic operation is impossible, as represented by the second law of thermodynamics. On the other hand, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) states that just a single energy eigenstate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Kazuya Kaneko , Eiki Iyoda , Takahiro Sagawa

Ergodicity has been one of the fundamental concepts underpinning our understanding of thermalization in isolated systems since the first developments in classical statistical mechanics. Recently, a similar notion has been introduced for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Leonard Logaric , John Goold , Shane Dooley

It has previously been suggested that small subsystems of closed quantum systems thermalize under some assumptions; however, this has been rigorously shown so far only for systems with very weak interaction between subsystems. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Markus P. Mueller , Emily Adlam , Lluis Masanes , Nathan Wiebe

We use the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis to derive a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a chaotic finite-sized bath prepared in a pure state. We show that the emergence of Markovianity is controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Peter O'Donovan , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi , John Goold , Mark T. Mitchison

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

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

In this work, we establish a general theory of phase transitions and quantum entanglement in the equilibrium state at arbitrary temperatures. First, we derived a set of universal functional relations between the matrix elements of two-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-07 Bo-Bo Wei

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…