Equilibration towards generalized Gibbs ensembles in non-interacting theories

Even after almost a century, the foundations of quantum statistical mechanics are still not completely understood. In this work, we provide a precise account on these foundations for a class of systems of paradigmatic importance that appear frequently as mean-field models in condensed matter phys...

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Main Author: Marek Gluza, Jens Eisert, Terry Farrelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2019-09-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.7.3.038