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 …

Quantum equilibration, thermalization and prethermalization in ultracold atoms

M Ueda - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, there has been remarkable progress in our understanding of
equilibration, thermalization and prethermalization, due in large part to experimental …

Systematic construction of counterexamples to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

N Shiraishi, T Mori - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We propose a general method to embed target states into the middle of the energy spectrum
of a many-body Hamiltonian as its energy eigenstates. Employing this method, we construct …

Onsager's scars in disordered spin chains

N Shibata, N Yoshioka, H Katsura - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We propose a class of nonintegrable quantum spin chains that exhibit quantum many-body
scars even in the presence of disorder. With the use of the so-called Onsager symmetry, we …

Unified theory of local quantum many-body dynamics: Eigenoperator thermalization theorems

B Buča - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Explaining quantum many-body dynamics is a long-held goal of physics. A rigorous operator
algebraic theory of dynamics in locally interacting systems in any dimension is provided …

Strictly linear light cones in long-range interacting systems of arbitrary dimensions

T Kuwahara, K Saito - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
In locally interacting quantum many-body systems, the velocity of information propagation is
finitely bounded, and a linear light cone can be defined. Outside the light cone, the amount …

Thermodynamic geometry of microscopic heat engines

K Brandner, K Saito - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We develop a general framework to describe the thermodynamics of microscopic heat
engines driven by arbitrary periodic temperature variations and modulations of a mechanical …

First and second law of quantum thermodynamics: A consistent derivation based on a microscopic definition of entropy

P Strasberg, A Winter - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Deriving the laws of thermodynamics from a microscopic picture is a central quest of
statistical mechanics. This tutorial focuses on the derivation of the first and second law for …

Effective light cone and digital quantum simulation of interacting bosons

T Kuwahara, TV Vu, K Saito - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The speed limit of information propagation is one of the most fundamental features in non-
equilibrium physics. The region of information propagation by finite-time dynamics is …

Bounds in nonequilibrium quantum dynamics

Z Gong, R Hamazaki - International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2022 - World Scientific
We review various bounds concerning out-of-equilibrium dynamics in few-level and many-
body quantum systems. We primarily focus on closed quantum systems but will also mention …