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 …

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 …

The ITensor software library for tensor network calculations

M Fishman, S White, EM Stoudenmire - SciPost Physics Codebases, 2022 - scipost.org
ITensor is a system for programming tensor network calculations with an interface modeled
on tensor diagram notation, which allows users to focus on the connectivity of a tensor …

Entanglement phase transitions in measurement-only dynamics

M Ippoliti, MJ Gullans, S Gopalakrishnan, DA Huse… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Unitary circuits subject to repeated projective measurements can undergo an entanglement
phase transition (EPT) as a function of the measurement rate. This transition is generally …

Entanglement asymmetry and quantum Mpemba effect in two-dimensional free-fermion systems

S Yamashika, F Ares, P Calabrese - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The quantum Mpemba effect is the counterintuitive nonequilibrium phenomenon wherein
the dynamic restoration of a broken symmetry occurs more rapidly when the initial state …

Quantum entanglement growth under random unitary dynamics

A Nahum, J Ruhman, S Vijay, J Haah - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Characterizing how entanglement grows with time in a many-body system, for example, after
a quantum quench, is a key problem in nonequilibrium quantum physics. We study this …

Entanglement transitions from stochastic resetting of non-Hermitian quasiparticles

X Turkeshi, M Dalmonte, R Fazio, M Schirò - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We put forward a phenomenological theory for entanglement dynamics in monitored
quantum many-body systems with well-defined quasiparticles. Within this theory …

Entanglement barrier and its symmetry resolution: Theory and experimental observation

A Rath, V Vitale, S Murciano, M Votto, J Dubail… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
The operator entanglement (OE) is a key quantifier of the complexity of a reduced density
matrix. In out-of-equilibrium situations, eg, after a quantum quench of a product state, it is …

Diffusive hydrodynamics of out-of-time-ordered correlators with charge conservation

T Rakovszky, F Pollmann, CW von Keyserlingk - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The scrambling of quantum information in closed many-body systems, as measured by out-
of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs), has received considerable attention lately …

Entanglement in a fermion chain under continuous monitoring

X Cao, A Tilloy, A De Luca - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
We study the entanglement entropy of the quantum trajectories of a free fermion chain under
continuous monitoring of local occupation numbers. We propose a simple theory for …