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Measuring effective temperatures in a generalized Gibbs ensemble

Statistical Mechanics 2017-06-13 v2

Abstract

The local physical properties of an isolated quantum statistical system in the stationary state reached long after a quench are generically described by the Gibbs ensemble, which involves only its Hamiltonian and the temperature as a parameter. If the system is instead integrable, additional quantities conserved by the dynamics intervene in the description of the stationary state. The resulting generalized Gibbs ensemble involves a number of temperature-like parameters, the determination of which is practically difficult. Here we argue that in a number of simple models these parameters can be effectively determined by using fluctuation-dissipation relationships between response and correlation functions of natural observables, quantities which are accessible in experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00101,
  title  = {Measuring effective temperatures in a generalized Gibbs ensemble},
  author = {Laura Foini and Andrea Gambassi and Robert Konik and Leticia F. Cugliandolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00101},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures

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