Dynamics and thermalization in correlated one-dimensional lattice systems

Abstract

We review exact approaches and recent results related to the relaxation dynamics and description after relaxation of various one-dimensional lattice systems of hard-core bosons after a sudden quench. We first analyze the integrable case, where the combination of analytical insights and computational techniques enable one to study large system sizes. Thermalization does not occur in this regime. However, after relaxation, observables can be described by a generalization of the Gibbs ensemble. We then utilize full exact diagonalization to study what happens as integrability is broken. We show that thermalization does occur in finite nonintegrable systems provided they are sufficiently far away from the integrable point. We argue that the onset of thermalization can be understood in terms of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis.

14 pages, 4 figures, unedited version of the chapter published in http://www.icpress.co.uk/physics/p817.html

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