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We study a counterintuitive property of 'conditioning' on the result of measuring a subsystem of a quantum state: such conditioning can boost design quality, at the cost of increased system size. We work in the setting of deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Soumik Ghosh , Arjun Mirani , Yihui Quek , Michelle Xu

We study purification dynamics in monitored quantum processes governed by ensembles of quantum circuits in different random-matrix symmetry classes. We analyze the universal aspects that emerge away from the measurement induced phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Federico Gerbino , Donghoon Kim , Guido Giachetti , Andrea De Luca , Xhek Turkeshi

Why is thermalisation a universal phenomenon? How does a quantum system reach thermodynamical equilibrium? These questions are not new, dating even from the very birth of quantum theory and have been the subject of a renewed interest over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Grégoire Ithier , Florent Benaych-Georges

The concept of entropy is fundamental to thermalization, yet appears at odds with basic principles in quantum mechanics. Statistical mechanics relies on the maximization of entropy for a system at thermal equilibrium. However, an isolated…

One of the fundamental problems of quantum statistical physics is how an ideally isolated quantum system can ever reach thermal equilibrium behavior despite the unitary time evolution of quantum-mechanical systems. Here, we study, via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Marvin Lenk , Sayak Biswas , Anna Posazhennikova , Johann Kroha

Preparing a quantum system in a pure state is ultimately limited by the nature of the system's evolution in the presence of its environment and by the initial state of the environment itself. We show that, when the system and environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

Recent advances in quantum simulators allow direct experimental access to ensembles of pure states generated by measuring part of an isolated quantum many-body system. These projected ensembles encode fine-grained information beyond thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Wai-Keong Mok , Tobias Haug , Wen Wei Ho , John Preskill

Random ensembles of pure states have proven to be extremely important in various aspects of quantum physics such as benchmarking the performance of quantum circuits, testing for quantum advantage, providing novel insights for many-body…

"Deep thermalization" describes the emergence of universal wavefunction distributions in quantum many-body dynamics, appearing on a local subsystem upon measurement of its environment. In this work, we study in detail the effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Rui-An Chang , Harshank Shrotriya , Wen Wei Ho , Matteo Ippoliti

We investigate the time evolution of a generic and finite isolated quantum many-body system starting from a pure quantum state. We find the kinematical general canonical principle proposed by Popescu-Short-Winter for statistical mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Shuai Cui , Jun-Peng Cao , Hui Jing , Heng Fan , Wu-Ming Liu

Continuously monitoring the environment of a quantum many-body system reduces the entropy of (purifies) the reduced density matrix of the system, conditional on the outcomes of the measurements. We show that, for mixed initial states, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Michael J. Gullans , David A. Huse

Deep thermalization refers to the emergence of Haar-like randomness from quantum systems upon partial measurements. As a generalization of quantum thermalization, it is often associated with high complexity and entanglement. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Shantanav Chakraborty , Soonwon Choi , Soumik Ghosh , Tudor Giurgică-Tiron

The approach to thermal equilibrium, or thermalization, in isolated quantum systems is among the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Recent theoretical studies have revealed that thermalization in isolated quantum systems has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Takashi Mori , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Eriko Kaminishi , Masahito Ueda

Deep thermalisation -- where ensembles of pure states on a local subsystem, conditioned on measurement outcomes on its complement, approach universal maximum-entropy ensembles -- represents a stronger form of ergodicity than conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Alan Sherry , Sthitadhi Roy

We have studied the role of thermalization in lifetime reduction of quantum memory based on multi-atomic ensembles. Herein, it is shown to be impossible to remove the thermaization-caused decoherence in such systems using the methods of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 S. A. Moiseev , V. A. Skrebnev

Quantum many-body systems provide a unique platform for exploring the rich interplay between chaos, randomness, and complexity. In a recently proposed paradigm known as deep thermalization, random quantum states of system A are generated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Wai-Keong Mok , Tobias Haug , Adam L. Shaw , Manuel Endres , John Preskill

Quantum systems of indistinguishable particles are commonly described using the formalism of second quantisation, which relies on the assumption that any admissible quantum state must be either symmetric or anti-symmetric under particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Benjamin Yadin , Benjamin Morris , Kay Brandner

The last decade has witnessed the remarkable progress in our understanding of thermalization in isolated quantum systems. Combining the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis with quantum measurement theory, we extend the framework of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-31 Yuto Ashida , Keiji Saito , Masahito Ueda

Recently, consensus-type problems have been formulated in the quantum domain. Obtaining average quantum consensus consists in the dynamical symmetrization of a multipartite quantum system while preserving the expectation of a given global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Francesco Ticozzi

We develop a rigorous system-agnostic method to predict quantum thermalization in an overwhelming fraction of accessible pure states in a many-body system, entirely in terms of certain out-of-time-ordered correlators of few-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Amit Vikram