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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,…

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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

At finite temperature, conserved charges undergo thermal fluctuations in a quantum many-body system in the grand canonical ensemble. The full structure of the fluctuations of the total U(1) charge $Q$ can be succinctly captured by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-07 Kang-Le Cai , Meng Cheng

Time dependent perturbations of states in the holographic dual of a 3+1 dimensional confining theory are considered. The perturbations are induced by varying the coupling to the theory's most relevant operator. The dual gravitational theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-31 Takaaki Ishii , Elias Kiritsis , Christopher Rosen

In this review article, we discuss the current status and future prospects of perturbation theory as a means of studying the equilibrium thermodynamic and near-equilibrium transport properties of deconfined QCD matter. We begin with a brief…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Jacopo Ghiglieri , Aleksi Kurkela , Michael Strickland , Aleksi Vuorinen

High temperatures are typically thought to increase disorder. Here we examine this idea in Quantum Field Theory in 2+1 dimensions. For this sake we explore a novel class of tractable models, consisting of nearly-mean-field scalars…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Zohar Komargodski , Fedor K. Popov

We consider the out-of-equilibrium transport in $T\bar{T}$-deformed (1+1)-dimension conformal field theories (CFTs). The theories admit two disparate approaches, integrability and holography, which we make full use of in order to compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-23 Marko Medenjak , Giuseppe Policastro , Takato Yoshimura

In this work, we study the time evolution of the entanglement hamiltonian during the process of thermalization in a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) after a quantum quench from a special class of initial states. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phase transitions impose topological constraints on thermodynamic state variables, masking energetic fluctuations at the phase boundary. This constraint is most apparent in melting systems, where temperature remains pinned despite continued…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Zhiang Xie

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-29 Marco Cattaneo , Marco Baldovin , Dario Lucente , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Angelo Vulpiani

Generic short-range interacting quantum systems with a conserved quantity exhibit universal diffusive transport at late times. We employ non-equilibrium quantum field theory and semi-classical phase-space simulations to show how this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-15 Alexander Schuckert , Izabella Lovas , Michael Knap

We propose a general hydrodynamic framework for systems with spontaneously broken approximate symmetries. The second law of thermodynamics naturally results in relaxation in the hydrodynamic equations, and enables us to derive a universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Jay Armas , Akash Jain , Ruben Lier

Thermodynamic perturbation theory is employed to derive analytical expressions for the equilibrium linear susceptibility and specific heat of lattices of anisotropic classical spins weakly coupled by the dipole-dipole interaction. The…

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Universal thermal data in conformal field theory (CFT) offer a valuable means for characterizing and classifying criticality. With improved tensor network techniques, we investigate the universal thermodynamics on a nonorientable minimal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-31 Hao-Xin Wang , Lei Chen , Hai Lin , Wei Li

The conserved magnetic flux of U(1) electrodynamics coupled to matter in four dimensions is associated with a generalized global symmetry. We study the realization of such a symmetry at finite temperature and develop the hydrodynamic theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-10 Sašo Grozdanov , Diego M. Hofman , Nabil Iqbal

Thermal rectification which is a diode-like behavior of heat flux has been studied over a long time. However, a universal and systematic physical description is still lacking. In this letter, a perturbation theory of thermal rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Chuang Zhang , Meng An , Zhaoli Guo , Songze Chen

In a previous work we developed a family of orbital-free tensor equations for DFT [J. Chem. Phys. 124, 024105 (2006)]. The theory is a combination of the coupled hydrodynamic moment equations hierarchy with a cumulant truncation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor V. Ovchinnikov , Lizette A. Bartell , Daniel Neuhauser

Models with radiative symmetry breaking typically feature strongly supercooled first-order phase transitions, which result in an observable stochastic gravitational wave background. In this work, we analyse the role of higher order thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-15 Maciej Kierkla , Bogumila Swiezewska , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Jorinde van de Vis

We investigate the thermalization dynamics of 1D systems with local constraints coupled to an infinite temperature bath at one boundary. The coupling to the bath eventually erases the effects of the constraints, causing the system to tend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Cheng Wang , Shankar Balasubramanian , Yiqiu Han , Ethan Lake , Xiao Chen , Zhi-Cheng Yang

We developed a theory showing that under appropriate normalizations and rescalings, temperature response curves show a remarkably regular behavior and follow a general, universal law. The impressive universality of temperature response…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-24 Jose Ignacio Arroyo , Pablo A. Marquet , Christopher P. Kempes , Geoffrey West