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We investigate the onset of thermalization and quantum chaos in finite one-dimensional gapped systems of hard-core bosons. Integrability in these systems is broken by next-nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions, which also generate a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-12 Marcos Rigol , Lea F. Santos

Quantum fluctuation of the energy is studied for an ultracold gas of interacting fermions trapped in a three-dimensional potential. Periodic-orbit theory is explored, and energy fluctuations are studied versus particle number for generic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Puig von Friesen , M. Ogren , S. Aberg

Analyzing the dynamics of open quantum systems has a long history in mathematics and physics. Depending on the system at hand, basic physical phenomena that one would like to explain are, for example, convergence to equilibrium, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Laurent Bruneau , Alain Joye , Marco Merkli

Weakly perturbed integrable many-body systems are typically chaotic, and thermal at late times. However, there are distinct relationships between the timescales for thermalization and chaos. The typical relationship is confined chaos: when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-19 Hyeongjin Kim , Robin Schäfer , David M. Long , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Anushya Chandran

Understanding the dynamics of strongly interacting disordered quantum systems is one of the most challenging problems in modern science, due to features such as the breakdown of thermalization and the emergence of glassy phases of matter.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 A. Signoles , T. Franz , R. Ferracini Alves , M. Gärttner , S. Whitlock , G. Zürn , M. Weidemüller

We introduce an elementary quantum system consisting of a set of spins on a graph and a particle hopping between its nodes. The quantum state is build sequentially, applying a unitary transformation that couples neighboring spins and, at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Alberto D. Verga

The propagation of molecular chaos, a tool of classical kinetic theory, is generalized to apply to quantum systems of distinguishable particles. We prove that the Curie-Weiss model of ferromagnetism propagates molecular chaos and derive the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander David Gottlieb

We present an inverse method to construct large classes of chaotic invariant sets together with their exact statistics. The associated dynamical systems are characterized by a probability distribution and a two-form. While our emphasis is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zachary Guralnik

We study the statistics of wave functions in a ballistic chaotic system. The statistical ensemble is generated by adding weak smooth random potential, which allows us to apply the ballistic $\sigma$-model approach. We analyze conditions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Relaxation dynamics of complex quantum systems with strong interactions towards the steady state is a fundamental problem in statistical mechanics. The steady state of subsystems weakly interacting with their environment is described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Alexey M. Shakirov , Yulia E. Shchadilova , Alexey N. Rubtsov

We review recent work on systems with multiple interacting-particles having the dynamical feature of stochastic resetting. The interplay of time scales related to inter-particle interactions and resetting leads to a rich behavior, both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-05 Apoorva Nagar , Shamik Gupta

The statistics of gaps between quantum energy levels is a hallmark criterion in quantum chaos and quantum integrability studies. The relevant distributions corresponding to exactly integrable vs. fully chaotic systems are universal and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ben Craps , Marine De Clerck , Oleg Evnin , Maxim Pavlov

Thermalization of an isolated quantum system has been a nontrivial problem since the early days of quantum mechanics. In generic isolated quantum systems, nonequilibrium dynamics is expected to result in thermalization, indicating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tanmay Saha , Pratik Ghosal , Pratapaditya Bej , Abhishek Banerjee , Prasenjit Deb

A bipartite system whose subsystems are fully quantum chaotic and coupled by a perturbative interaction with a tunable strength is a paradigmatic model for investigating how isolated quantum systems relax towards an equilibrium. It is found…

In their seminal work, Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and Tsingou explored the connection between statistical mechanics and dynamical properties, such as chaos and ergodicity. Even today, seventy years later, the topic is not fully understood: while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Marco Baldovin , Marco Cattaneo , Dario Lucente , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Angelo Vulpiani

The mechanism of collectivity coexisting with chaos in a finite system of strongly interacting fermions is investigated. The complex spectra are represented in the basis of two-particle two-hole states describing the nuclear double-charge…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Drozdz , S. Nishizaki , J. Speth , M. Wojcik

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

We study the quantum dynamics of the kicked Dicke model(KDM) in terms of the Floquet operator and analyze the connection between the chaos and thermalization in this context. The Hamiltonian map is constructed by taking the classical limit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-06 S. Ray , A. Ghosh , S. Sinha

We obtain exact analytic expressions for a class of functions expressed as integrals over the Haar measure of the unitary group in d dimensions. Based on these general mathematical results, we investigate generic dynamical properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Manuel Gessner , Heinz-Peter Breuer

The intrinsic multivaluedness of interaction process, revealed in Part I of this series of papers, is interpreted as the origin of the true dynamical (in particular, quantum) chaos. The latter is causally deduced as unceasing series of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrei P. Kirilyuk