Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems

Marcos Rigol, Vanja Dunjko and Maxim Olshanii ()
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Marcos Rigol: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Vanja Dunjko: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Maxim Olshanii: University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7189, 854-858

Abstract: It is demonstrated that an isolated generic quantum many-body system does relax to a state well described by the standard statistical mechanical prescription. The thermalization happens at the level of individual eigenstates, allowing the computation of thermal averages from knowledge of any eigenstate in the microcanonical energy window.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1038/nature06838

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