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We introduce a growing one-dimensional quenched spin model that bases on asymmetrical one-side Ising interactions in the presence of external field. Numerical simulations and analytical calculations based on Markov chain theory show that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-13 Julian Sienkiewicz , Krzysztof Suchecki , Janusz A. Hołyst

We investigate the operator growth dynamics of the transverse field Ising spin chain in one dimension as varying the strength of the longitudinal field. An operator in the Heisenberg picture spreads in the extended Hilbert space. Recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Jae Dong Noh

Due to entropic effects, it is possible that generic high-energy states of a quantum or classical system are ordered. This leads to spontaneous symmetry breaking at arbitrarily high temperatures. We present minimal models of entropic order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Xiaoyang Huang , Zohar Komargodski , Andrew Lucas , Fedor K. Popov , Tin Sulejmanpasic

It is a general fact that the coupling constant of an interacting many-body Hamiltonian do not correspond to any observable and one has to infer its value by an indirect measurement. For this purpose, quantum systems at criticality can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carmen Invernizzi , Michael Korbman , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Matteo G. A Paris

Thermalization in closed quantum systems can be explained either by means of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis or the concept of canonical typicality. Both concepts are based on quantum mechanical formalism such as spectral…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-11 Jayson G. Cosme , Oleksandr Fialko

This review is devoted to the problem of thermalization in a small isolated conglomerate of interacting constituents. A variety of physically important systems of intensive current interest belong to this category: complex atoms, molecules…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-18 F. Borgonovi , F. M. Izrailev , L. F. Santos , V. G. Zelevinsky

Previous experimental realizations of Dicke model in atomic or ionic systems are based on global observables assuming uniform spin-boson coupling, while inevitable experimental nonuniformity on the one hand requires site-resolved…

The irreversibility and thermalization of many-body systems can be attributed to the erasure of spread non-equilibrium state information by local operations. This thermalization mechanism can be demonstrated by the sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Xue-Yi Guo

Heat engines that convert thermal energy into work are a cornerstone of classical thermodynamics and remain an active area of contemporary research. Notable examples include microscopic heat engines, trade-off relations between power and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Gustavo A. L. Forão , Arya Datta , Carlos E. Fiore , Andre C. Barato

A periodic Ising model is one endowed with interactions that are invariant under translations of members of a full-rank sublattice $\mathfrak{L}$ of $\mathbb{Z}^2$. We give an exact, quantitative description of the critical temperature,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 Zhongyang Li

We review selected advances in the theoretical understanding of complex quantum many-body systems with regard to emergent notions of quantum statistical mechanics. We cover topics such as equilibration and thermalisation in pure state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 C. Gogolin , J. Eisert

We study eigenstate thermalization and related signatures of quantum chaos in the one-dimensional ferromagnetic transverse-field Ising model with power-law interactions. The presence of long-range interactions allows for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-13 Keith R. Fratus , Mark Srednicki

A system put in contact with a large heat bath normally thermalizes. This means that the state of the system approaches an equilibrium state, the latter depending only on macroscopic characteristics of the bath (e.g. temperature), but not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Oleg Lychkovskiy

It was recently conjectured that in generic quantum many-body systems, the spectral density of local operators has the slowest high-frequency decay as permitted by locality. We show that the infinite-temperature version of this "universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-11 Xiangyu Cao

Long-range quantum systems, in which the interactions decay as $1/r^{\alpha}$, are of increasing interest due to the variety of experimental set-ups in which they naturally appear. Motivated by this, we study fundamental properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jorge Sánchez-Segovia , Jan T. Schneider , Álvaro M. Alhambra

Statistical mechanics provides a framework for describing the physics of large, complex many-body systems using only a few macroscopic parameters to determine the state of the system. For isolated quantum many-body systems, such a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-11 Piotr Sierant , Maciej Lewenstein , Antonello Scardicchio , Lev Vidmar , Jakub Zakrzewski

While the canonical ensemble has been tremendously successful in capturing thermal statistics of macroscopic systems, deviations from canonical behavior exhibited by small systems are not well understood. Here, using a small two dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-07 Lukas Herron , Purushottam Dixit

We study the characteristics of thermalizing and non-thermalizing operators in integrable theories as we turn on a non-integrable deformation. Specifically, we show that $\sigma^z$, an operator that thermalizes in the integrable transverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-15 Aleksandar Bukva , Philippe Sabella-Garnier , Koenraad Schalm

We relate a large class of classical spin models, including the inhomogeneous Ising, Potts, and clock models of q-state spins on arbitrary graphs, to problems in quantum physics. More precisely, we show how to express partition functions as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Van den Nest , W. Dür , H. J. Briegel

Although the fully connected Ising model does not have a length scale, we show that its critical exponents can be found using finite size scaling with the scaling variable equal to N, the number of spins. We find that at the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-15 Louis Colonna-Romano , Harvey Gould , W. Klein