Relaxation theory for perturbed many-body quantum systems versus numerics and experiment
arXiv:1903.11881 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.120602
Abstract
An analytical prediction is established of how an isolated many-body quantum system relaxes towards its thermal long-time limit under the action of a time-independent perturbation, but still remaining sufficiently close to a reference case whose temporal relaxation is known. This is achieved within the conceptual framework of a typicality approach by showing and exploiting that the time-dependent expectation values behave very similarly for most members of a suitably chosen ensemble of perturbations. The predictions are validated by comparison with various numerical and experimental results from the literature.
6 pages, 4 figures (+ suppl. 30 pages, 4 figures); title changed during peer review
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