From quantum chaos and eigenstate thermalization to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics

L D'Alessio, Y Kafri, A Polkovnikov, M Rigol - Advances in Physics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This review gives a pedagogical introduction to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis
(ETH), its basis, and its implications to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. In the first …

QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

Ultracold atoms out of equilibrium

T Langen, R Geiger… - Annu. Rev. Condens …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The relaxation of isolated quantum many-body systems is a major unsolved problem
connecting statistical and quantum physics. Studying such relaxation processes remains a …

Prethermalization and universal dynamics in near-integrable quantum systems

T Langen, T Gasenzer… - Journal of Statistical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the recent progress in the understanding of the relaxation of isolated near-
integrable quantum many-body systems. Focusing on prethermalization and universal …

Evolution of large-scale flow from turbulence in a two-dimensional superfluid

SP Johnstone, AJ Groszek, PT Starkey, CJ Billington… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Nonequilibrium interacting systems can evolve to exhibit large-scale structure and order. In
two-dimensional turbulent flow, the seemingly random swirling motion of a fluid can evolve …

[LIVRE][B] The defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation: from dark solitons to vortices and vortex rings

The phenomenon of Bose–Einstein condensation is a phase transition originally predicted
by Bose and Einstein in 1924. In particular, it was shown that below a critical temperature T …

Turbulent thermalization process in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies

J Berges, K Boguslavski, S Schlichting, R Venugopalan - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The nonequilibrium evolution of heavy-ion collisions is studied in the limit of weak coupling
at very high energy employing lattice simulations of the classical Yang-Mills equations …

Universal attractor in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma

J Berges, K Boguslavski, S Schlichting, R Venugopalan - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
We study the thermalization process in highly occupied non-Abelian plasmas at weak
coupling. The nonequilibrium dynamics of such systems is classical in nature and can be …

Characteristics of two-dimensional quantum turbulence in a compressible superfluid

TW Neely, AS Bradley, EC Samson, SJ Rooney… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Fluids subjected to suitable forcing will exhibit turbulence, with characteristics strongly
affected by the fluid's physical properties and dimensionality. In this work, we explore two …

Bidirectional dynamic scaling in an isolated Bose gas far from equilibrium

JAP Glidden, C Eigen, LH Dogra, TA Hilker, RP Smith… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding and classifying non-equilibrium many-body phenomena, analogously to the
classification of equilibrium states of matter into universality classes,, is an outstanding …