Role of correlations in the thermalization of quantum systems
We investigate the equilibration and thermalization properties of quantum systems interacting with a finite-dimensional environment. By exploiting the concept of time-averaged states, we introduce a completely positive map which allows us to describe in a quantitative way the dependence of the equil...
Main Authors: | , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2012-01-01
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Series: | New Journal of Physics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113034 |