Long-Time Equilibration Can Determine Transient Thermality

When two initially thermal many-body systems start to interact strongly, their transient states quickly become non-Gibbsian, even if the systems eventually equilibrate. To see beyond this apparent lack of structure during the transient regime, we use a refined notion of thermality, which we call g-l...

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Main Authors: Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Somayyeh Nemati, Carsten Henkel, Janet Anders
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-08-01
Series:PRX Quantum
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.030321