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The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis explains thermalization in isolated quantum systems through the statistical properties of observables in the energy eigenbasis. We investigate the crossover from integrability to chaos in the…

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The dynamical evolution of neutrino flavor in supernovae can be modeled by an all-to-all spin Hamiltonian with random couplings. Simulating such two-local Hamiltonian dynamics remains a major challenge, as methods with controllable accuracy…

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Understanding the microscopic mechanisms of thermalization in closed quantum systems is among the key challenges in modern quantum many-body physics. We demonstrate a method to probe local thermalization in a large-scale many-body system by…

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is a successful theory that establishes the criteria for ergodicity and thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems. In this work, we investigate the thermalization properties of…

We study the diagonal and off-diagonal matrix elements of observables in the eigenstates of the extended spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg chain, which exhibits the non-Abelian SU(2) symmetry. We explore integrable and nonintegrable regimes,…

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The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) explains emergence of the thermodynamic equilibrium by assuming a particular structure of observable's matrix elements in the energy eigenbasis. Schematically, it postulates that off-diagonal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Jiaozi Wang , Mats H. Lamann , Jonas Richter , Robin Steinigeweg , Anatoly Dymarsky , Jochen Gemmer

By developing a semi-classical analysis based on the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis, we determine the long time behavior of a large spin evolving with a nonlinear Hamiltonian. Despite integrable classical dynamics, we find the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Shane P. Kelly , Eddy Timmermans , S. -W. Tsai

The growth in the demand for precisely crafted many-body systems of spin-$1/2$ particles/qubits is due to their top-notch versatility in application-oriented quantum-enhanced protocols and the fundamental tests of quantum theory. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Artur Niezgoda , Miłosz Panfil , Jan Chwedeńczuk

To simulate thermalizing systems at long times, the most straightforward approach is to calculate the thermal properties at the corresponding energy. In a quantum many-body system of size $N$, for local observables and many initial states,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Yichen Huang

We investigate quantum inspired algorithms to compute physical observables of quantum many-body systems at finite energies. They are based on the quantum algorithms proposed in [Lu et al. PRX Quantum 2, 020321 (2021)], which use the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Yilun Yang , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mari Carmen Bañuls

We investigate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in integrable models, focusing on the spin-1/2 isotropic Heisenberg (XXX) chain. We provide numerical evidence that ETH holds for typical eigenstates (weak ETH scenario).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-22 Vincenzo Alba

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

For an isolated generic quantum system out of equilibrium, the long time average of observables is given by the diagonal ensemble, i.e. the mixed state with the same probability for energy eigenstates as the initial state but without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Aslı Çakan , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mari Carmen Bañuls

The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) provides a way to understand how an isolated quantum mechanical system can be approximated by a thermal density matrix. We find a class of operators in (1+1)-$d$ conformal field theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-30 Pallab Basu , Diptarka Das , Shouvik Datta , Sridip Pal

Numerical annealing and renormalization group have conceived various successful approaches to study the thermodynamics of strongly-correlated systems where perturbation or expansion theories fail to work. As the process of lowering the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Ding-Zu Wang , Guo-Feng Zhang , Maciej Lewenstein , Shi-Ju Ran

We introduce a general numerical method to compute dynamics and multi-time correlations of chains of quantum systems, where each system may couple strongly to a structured environment. The method combines the process tensor formalism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Gerald E. Fux , Dainius Kilda , Brendon W. Lovett , Jonathan Keeling

Quantum gas microscopy has developed into a powerful tool to explore strongly correlated quantum systems. However, discerning phases with topological or off-diagonal long range order requires the ability to extract these correlations from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-09 Bo Xiao , Javier Robledo Moreno , Matthew Fishman , Dries Sels , Ehsan Khatami , Richard Scalettar

Thermal and many-body localized phases are separated by a dynamical phase transition of a new kind. We analyze the distribution of off-diagonal matrix elements of local operators across the many-body localization transition (MBLT) in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-13 Maksym Serbyn , Z. Papić , Dmitry A. Abanin

We consider integrable quantum spin chains with competing interactions. We apply the quantum transfer matrix approach to these spin chains. This allowed us to derive a set of non-linear integral equations for the thermodynamics of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-05 T. S. Tavares , G. A. P. Ribeiro

Thermalization is investigated for the one-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with dimerized nearest-neighbor interactions that break integrability. For this purpose the time evolution of local operator expectation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 N. P. Konstantinidis