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Macroscopic Thermalization for Highly Degenerate Hamiltonians
| العنوان: | Macroscopic Thermalization for Highly Degenerate Hamiltonians |
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| المؤلفون: | Roos, Barbara, Teufel, Stefan, Tumulka, Roderich, Vogel, Cornelia |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Mathematics Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics Quantum Physics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Physics |
| الوصف: | We say of an isolated macroscopic quantum system in a pure state $\psi$ that it is in macroscopic thermal equilibrium if $\psi$ lies in or close to a suitable subspace $\mathcal{H}_{eq}$ of Hilbert space. It is known that every initial state $\psi_0$ will eventually reach macroscopic thermal equilibrium and stay there most of the time (``thermalize'') if the Hamiltonian is non-degenerate and satisfies the appropriate version of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), i.e., that every eigenvector is in macroscopic thermal equilibrium. Shiraishi and Tasaki recently proved the ETH for a certain perturbation $H_\theta$ of the Hamiltonian $H_0$ of $N\gg 1$ free fermions on a one-dimensional lattice. The perturbation is needed to remove the high degeneracies of $H_0$. Here, we point out that also for degenerate Hamiltonians, all $\psi_0$ thermalize if the ETH holds for every eigenbasis, and we prove that this is the case for $H_0$. On top of that and more generally, we develop another strategy of proving thermalization, inspired by the fact that there is one eigenbasis of $H_0$ for which ETH can be proven more easily and with smaller error bounds than for the others. This strategy applies to arbitrarily small generic perturbations $H$ of $H_0$, which seem no less realistic than $H_\theta$, and to arbitrary spatial dimensions. In fact, we consider any given $H_0$, suppose that the ETH holds for some but not necessarily every eigenbasis of $H_0$, and add a small generic perturbation, $H=H_0+\lambda V$ with $\lambda\ll 1$. Then, although $H$ (which is non-degenerate) may still not satisfy the ETH, we show that nevertheless (i) every $\psi_0$ thermalizes for most perturbations $V$, and more generally, (ii) for any subspace $\mathcal{H}_\nu$ (such as corresponding to a non-equilibrium macro state), most perturbations $V$ are such that most $\psi_0$ from $\mathcal{H}_\nu$ thermalize. Comment: 40 pages LaTeX, no figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15832 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2408.15832 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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