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We investigate off-diagonal matrix elements of local operators in integrable spin chains, focusing on the isotropic spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg chain ($XXX$ chain). We employ state-of-the-art Algebraic Bethe Ansatz results, which allow us to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-18 Federico Rottoli , Vincenzo Alba

According to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), the eigenstate-to-eigenstate fluctuations of expectation values of local observables should decrease with increasing system size. In approaching the thermodynamic limit - the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-14 Goran Nakerst , Masudul Haque

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

Quantum error correction, thermalization, and quantum chaos are fundamental aspects of quantum many-body physics that have each developed largely independently, despite their deep conceptual overlap. In this work, we establish a precise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Shozab Qasim , Jason Pollack

This work investigates the relationship between quantum chaos and thermalization in a three-species Bose-Josephson Junction (BJJ) with mutual interactions, without coupling to any external environment. The analysis is grounded in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Francesco Di Menna , Sergio Ciuchi , Simone Paganelli

In this work, we use quantum complexity theory to quantify the difficulty of distinguishing eigenstates obeying the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH). After identifying simple operators with an algebra of low-energy observables and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ning Bao , Jason Pollack , David Wakeham , Elizabeth Wildenhain

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

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

In the ongoing discussion on thermalization in closed quantum many-body systems, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) has recently been proposed as a universal concept which attracted considerable attention. So far this concept…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-04 Robin Steinigeweg , Abdelah Khodja , Hendrik Niemeyer , Christian Gogolin , Jochen Gemmer

We consider a realistic nonequilibrium protocol, where a quantum system in thermal equilibrium is suddenly subjected to an external force. Due to this force, the system is driven out of equilibrium and the expectation values of certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-17 Jonas Richter , Mats H. Lamann , Christian Bartsch , Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

Boltzmann's ergodic hypothesis furnishes a possible explanation for the emergence of statistical mechanics in the framework of classical physics. In quantum mechanics, the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) is instead generally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-08 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Lawrence Liu

Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis is a detailed statement of the matrix elements of few-body operators in energy eigenbasis of a chaotic Hamiltonian. Part of the statement is that the off-diagonal elements fall exponential for large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Nilakash Sorokhaibam

Using the ergodicity principle for the expectation values of several types of observables, we investigate the thermalization process in isolated fermionic systems. These are described by the two-body random ensemble, which is a paradigmatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. K. B. Kota , A. Relaño , J. Retamosa , Manan Vyas

Building upon recent progress in Lindblad engineering for quantum Gibbs state preparation algorithms, we propose a simplified protocol that is shown to be efficient under the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). The ETH reduces…

By calculating correlation functions for the Lieb-Liniger model based on the algebraic Bethe ansatz method, we conduct a finite-size scaling analysis of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) which is considered to be a possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-06 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Yu Watanabe , Masahito Ueda

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

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is one of the cornerstones in our understanding of quantum statistical mechanics. The extent to which ETH holds for nonlocal operators is an open question that we partially address in this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-27 Ivan M. Khaymovich , Masudul Haque , Paul A. McClarty

We investigate dynamical equilibration of expectation values in closed quantum systems for realistic non-equilibrium initial states. Thereby we find that the corresponding long time expectation values depend on the initial expectation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 Christian Bartsch , Jochen Gemmer

To bypass the reliance on local observables in verifying the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), we introduce an observable-independent measure of distinguishability based on the variance of a rescaled local operator. We establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zhiqiang Huang

We present a detailed analysis of the connection between chaos and the onset of thermalization in the spin-boson Dicke model. This system has a well-defined classical limit with two degrees of freedom, and it presents both regular and…

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