2017/01/01 by Fausto Borgonovi, Felix M. Izrailev · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Basis (linear algebra) #Chaotic #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Delocalized electron #Eigenvalues and eigenvectors #Quantum many-body systems #Thermal #Thermalisation #cond-mat.stat-mech #nlin.CD #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.5016128
published in AIP conference proceedings 1910, 020003 (American Institute of Physics) · Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Physics, NMP17, East Lansing (USA)
openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · arxiv created 2017/09/11 · openalex created_date 2017/09/25 · arxiv updated 2018/01/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It is believed that thermalization in closed systems of interacting particles can occur only when the eigenstates are fully delocalized and chaotic in the preferential (unperturbed) basis of the total Hamiltonian. Here we demonstrate that at variance with this common belief the typical situation in the systems with two-body inter-particle interaction is much more complicated and allows to treat as thermal even eigenstates that are not fully delocalized. Using a semi-analytical approach we establish the conditions for the emergence of such thermal states in a model of randomly interacting bosons. Our numerical data show an excellent correspondence with the predicted properties of localized thermal eigenstates.