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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

Complex systems such as glasses, gels, granular materials, and systems far from equilibrium exhibit violation of the ergodic hypothesis (EH) and of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT). Recent investigations in systems with memory have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Vainstein , I. V. L. Costa , F. A. Oliveira

We provide a pedagogical introduction to eigenstate thermalization. This phenomenon, which occurs in generic quantum systems, allows one to understand why thermalization takes place in isolated systems under unitary dynamics. We motivate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Rohit Patil , Marcos Rigol

The thermalization of isolated quantum many-body systems is deeply related to fundamental questions of quantum information theory. While integrable or many-body localized systems display non-ergodic behavior due to extensively many…

We report universal statistical properties displayed by ensembles of pure states that naturally emerge in quantum many-body systems. Specifically, two classes of state ensembles are considered: those formed by i) the temporal trajectory of…

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) provides a cornerstone for understanding thermalization in isolated quantum systems, linking quantum chaos with statistical mechanics. In this work, we extend the ETH framework to open quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Filippo Ferrari , Vincenzo Savona , Fabrizio Minganti

We derive semiclassical analytical solutions for both the diagonal and off-diagonal functions in the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in a quarter-stadium quantum billiard. For a representative observable, we obtain an explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Yaoqi Ye , Chengkai Lin , Xiao Wang

The existence of $p$-form symmetry in $(d+1)$-dimensional quantum field is known to always lead to the breakdown of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) for certain $(d-p)$-dimensional operators other than symmetry operators under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-12 Osamu Fukushima

We study the stroboscopic dynamics of a periodically driven finite Rydberg chain with staggered ($\Delta$) and time-dependent uniform ($\lambda(t)$) detuning terms using exact diagonalization (ED). We show that at intermediate drive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Arnab Sen , K. Sengupta

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is the leading conjecture for the emergence of statistical mechanics in generic isolated quantum systems and is formulated in terms of the matrix elements of operators. An analog known as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-04 Siddharth Jindal , Pavan Hosur

Bridging the second law of thermodynamics and microscopic reversible dynamics has been a longstanding problem in statistical physics. We here address this problem on the basis of quantum many-body physics, and discuss how the entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-03 Kazuya Kaneko , Eiki Iyoda , Takahiro Sagawa

We study the long-time average of the reduced density matrix (RDM) of an $m$-level central system, which is locally coupled to a large environment, under an overall Schr\"{o}dinger evolution of the total system. We consider a class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Hua Yan , Jiaozi Wang , Wen-ge Wang

We propose a multi-scale diagonalization scheme to study disordered one-dimensional chains, in particular the transition between many-body localization (MBL) and the ergodic phase, expected to be governed by resonant spots. Our scheme…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-10 Thimothée Thiery , François Huveneers , Markus Müller , Wojciech De Roeck

One of the outstanding problems in non-equilibrium physics is to precisely understand when and how physically relevant observables in many-body systems equilibrate under unitary time evolution. General equilibration results show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Henrik Wilming , Marcel Goihl , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert

Many-body localization (MBL) behavior is analyzed {in an extended Bose-Hubbard model with quasiperiodic infinite-range interactions. No additional disorder is present. Examining level statistics and entanglement entropy of eigenstates we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-02 Piotr Kubala , Piotr Sierant , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

We study the entanglement spectrum in the many body localizing and thermalizing phases of one and two dimensional Hamiltonian systems, and periodically driven `Floquet' systems. We focus on the level statistics of the entanglement spectrum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-25 Scott D. Geraedts , Rahul Nandkishore , Nicolas Regnault

It is known that the long-range quantum entanglement exhibited in free fermion systems is sufficient to "thermalize" a small subsystem in that the subsystem reduced density matrix computed from a typical excited eigenstate of the combined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-18 G. C. Levine , B. A. Friedman

In classical systems, chaos is clearly defined via the behavior of trajectories. In quantum systems with a classical analogue one finds that the transition from regular to chaotic dynamics is signified by a change in the spectral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Fotis I. Giasemis

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis provides a framework for understanding thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems by characterizing statistical properties of local observables in energy eigenstates. Here we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Pavel Orlov , Rustem Sharipov , Enej Ilievski

We extend the notion of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) to Open Quantum Systems governed by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) Master Equation. We present evidence that the eigenstates of non-equilibrium steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-10 Sanjay Moudgalya , Trithep Devakul , D. P. Arovas , S. L. Sondhi