Thermalization and prethermalization in isolated quantum systems: a theoretical overview

T Mori, TN Ikeda, E Kaminishi… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The approach to thermal equilibrium, or thermalization, in isolated quantum systems is
among the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Recent theoretical studies have …

Conformal field theory out of equilibrium: a review

D Bernard, B Doyon - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a pedagogical review of the main ideas and results in non-equilibrium conformal
field theory and connected subjects. These concern the understanding of quantum transport …

Entanglement spreading in a minimal model of maximal many-body quantum chaos

B Bertini, P Kos, T Prosen - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
The spreading of entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the
center of intense interdisciplinary research efforts involving communities with interests …

Fermionic Gaussian states: an introduction to numerical approaches

J Surace, L Tagliacozzo - SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, 2022 - scipost.org
This document is meant to be a practical introduction to the analytical and numerical
manipulation of Fermionic Gaussian systems. Starting from the basics, we move to relevant …

Entanglement spreading in non-equilibrium integrable systems

P Calabrese - SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, 2020 - scipost.org
These are lecture notes for a short course given at the Les Houches Summer School
on``Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics'', in summer 2018. Here, I …

Entanglement and thermodynamics in non-equilibrium isolated quantum systems

P Calabrese - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
In these lectures, I pedagogically review some recent advances in the study of the non-
equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. In particular I emphasise the role played …

Generalized thermalization in quantum-chaotic quadratic Hamiltonians

P Łydżba, M Mierzejewski, M Rigol, L Vidmar - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Thermalization (generalized thermalization) in nonintegrable (integrable) quantum systems
requires two ingredients: equilibration and agreement with the predictions of the Gibbs …

Thermalization and pseudolocality in extended quantum systems

B Doyon - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2017 - Springer
Recently, it was understood that modified concepts of locality played an important role in the
study of extended quantum systems out of equilibrium, in particular in so-called generalized …

Normal weak eigenstate thermalization

P Łydżba, R Świętek, M Mierzejewski, M Rigol… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Eigenstate thermalization has been numerically shown to occur for few-body observables in
a wide range of nonintegrable models. For intensive sums of few-body observables, a …

Decay and recurrence of non-Gaussian correlations in a quantum many-body system

T Schweigler, M Gluza, M Tajik, S Sotiriadis… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Gaussian models provide an excellent effective description of many quantum many-body
systems ranging from condensed-matter systems, all the way to neutron stars. Gaussian …