Roles of energy eigenstates and eigenvalues in equilibration of isolated quantum systems
arXiv:1704.01457 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.96.042124
Abstract
We show that eigen-energies and energy eigenstates play different roles in the equilibration process of an isolated quantum system. Their roles are revealed numerically by exchanging the eigen-energies between an integrable model and a non-integrable model. We ?find that the structure of eigenenergies of a non-integrable model characterized by non-degeneracy ensures that quantum revival occurs rarely whereas the energy eigenstates of a non-integrable model suppress the fluctuations for the equilibrated quantum state. Our study is aided with a quantum entropy that describes how randomly a wave function is distributed in quantum phase space. We also demonstrate with this quantum entropy the validity of Berry's conjecture for energy eigenstates. This implies that the energy eigenstates of a non-integrable model appear indeed "random".
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