Dynamical typicality approach to eigenstate thermalization

Abstract

We consider the set of all initial states within a microcanonical energy shell of an isolated many-body quantum system, which exhibit the same, arbitrary but fixed non-equilibrium expectation value for some given observable $A$. On condition that this set is not too small, it is shown by means of a dynamical typicality approach that most such initial states exhibit thermalization if and only if $A$ satisfies the so-called weak eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (wETH). Here, thermalization means that the expectation value of $A$ spends most of its time close to the microcanonical value after initial transients have died out. The wETH means that, within the energy shell, most eigenstates of the pertinent system Hamiltonian exhibit very similar expectation values of $A$.

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