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We consider a many-body Hilbert space with a fixed global charge and show that the typical entanglement entropy of a subsystem, at the leading and subleading order in the thermodynamic limit, can be expressed in terms of a single quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Eugenio Bianchi , Pietro Donà , Erick Muiño

A pure quantum state can fully describe thermal equilibrium as long as one focuses on local observables. Thermodynamic entropy can also be recovered as the entanglement entropy of small subsystems. When the size of the subsystem increases,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-31 Yuya O. Nakagawa , Masataka Watanabe , Hiroyuki Fujita , Sho Sugiura

We consider an isolated system in an arbitrary state and provide a general formulation using first principles for an additive and non-negative statistical quantity that is shown to reproduce the equilibrium thermodynamic entropy of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 P. D. Gujrati

In a 1+1 dimensional QFT on a circle, we consider the von Neumann entanglement entropy of an interval for typical pure states. As a function of the interval size, we expect a Page curve in the entropy. We employ a specific ensemble average…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Erez Y. Urbach

Many body quantum eigenstates of generic Hamiltonians at finite energy density typically satisfy "volume law" of entanglement entropy: the von Neumann entanglement entropy and the Renyi entropies for a subregion scale in proportion to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-28 Tarun Grover , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Using a Krylov-subspace time evolution algorithm, we simulate the real-time dynamics of translation invariant non-integrable finite spin rings to quite long times with high accuracy. We systematically study the finite-size deviation between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Ivo A. Maceira , Andreas M. Läuchli

In classical physics, entropy quantifies the randomness of large systems, where the complete specification of the state, though possible in theory, is not possible in practice. In quantum physics, despite its inherently probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Davi Geiger , Zvi Kedem

In a quantum system in a pure state, a subsystem generally has a nonzero entropy because of entanglement with the rest of the system. Is the average entanglement entropy of pure states also the typical entropy of the subsystem? We present a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-19 Eugenio Bianchi , Pietro Dona

We re-interprete the microcanonical conditions in the quantum domain as constraints for the interaction of the "gas-subsystem" under consideration and its environment ("container"). The time-average of a purity-measure is found to equal the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jochen Gemmer , Alexander Otte , Guenter Mahler

We introduce an ergotropy-based formulation of quantum thermodynamics, which provides a strong connection between average heat and von Neumann entropy. By adopting this formulation, we can reinterpret the infinitesimal average heat in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca , P. A. C. Obando , M. S. Sarandy , F. M. de Paula

We take the view that the standard von Neumann definition, in which the entropy $S^{vN}$ of a pure state is zero, is in evident conflict with the statement of the second law that the entropy of the universe $S_{univ}$ increases in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 George L. Barnes , Phillip C. Lotshaw , Michael E. Kellman

We study the von Neumann entropy asymptotics of pure translation-invariant quasi-free states of d-dimensional fermionic systems. It is shown that the entropic area law is violated by all these states: apart from the trivial cases, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 S. Farkas , Z. Zimboras

We develop a quantum relative entropy method for the mean-field limit of quantum many-body systems. For closed systems governed by the von Neumann equation, we prove a quantitative stability estimate between the $N$-body density matrix and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Gaoyue Guo , Hao Liang , Zhenfu Wang

We propose a generalization of the quantum entropy introduced by Wigner and von Neumann in 1929 [Zeitschrift f\"ur Physik 57, 30 (1929)]. Our generalization is applicable to both quantum pure states and mixed states. When the dimension $N$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Zhigang Hu , Zhenduo Wang , Biao Wu

If the N bosons that compose an ideal Bose-Einstein gas with energy E and volume V are each assumed to have the average energy of the system E/N, the entropy is easily expressed in terms of the number of bosons N and the number of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-07 Don S. Lemons

We construct a complete set of Wannier functions which are localized at both given positions and momenta. This allows us to introduce the quantum phase space, onto which a quantum pure state can be mapped unitarily. Using its probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Xizhi Han , Biao Wu

Comparison of the thermodynamic entropy with Boltzmann's principle shows that under conditions of constant volume the total number of arrangements in simple thermodynamic systems with temperature-independent heat capacities is TC/k. A…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sands

Motivated by the qualitative picture of Canonical Typicality, we propose a refined formulation of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) for chaotic quantum systems. The new formulation, which we refer to as subsystem ETH, is in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-06 Anatoly Dymarsky , Nima Lashkari , Hong Liu

The average entanglement entropy (EE) of the energy eigenstates in non-vanishing partitions has been recently proposed as a diagnostic of integrability in quantum many-body systems. For it to be a faithful characterization of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Meenu Kumari , Álvaro M. Alhambra

By numerically exact calculations of spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg models on small clusters, we demonstrate that quantum entanglement between subsystems $A$ and $B$ in a pure ground state of a whole system $A+B$ can induce thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Kazuhiro Seki , Seiji Yunoki