Prethermalization, thermalization, and Fermi's golden rule in quantum many-body systems
arXiv:2109.01705 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.184302
Abstract
We study the prethermalization and thermalization dynamics of local observables in weakly perturbed nonintegrable systems, with Hamiltonians of the form , where is nonintegrable and is a perturbation. We explore the dynamics of far from equilibrium initial states in the thermodynamic limit using a numerical linked cluster expansion (NLCE), and in finite systems with periodic boundaries using exact diagonalization. We argue that generic observables exhibit a two-step relaxation process, with a fast prethermal dynamics followed by a slow thermalizing one, only if the perturbation breaks a conserved quantity of and if the value of the conserved quantity in the initial state is different from the one after thermalization. We show that the slow thermalizing dynamics is characterized by a rate , which can be accurately determined using a Fermi golden rule (FGR) equation. We also show that during such a slow dynamics, observables can be described using projected diagonal and Gibbs ensembles, and we contrast their accuracy.
arXiv comment15 pages, 9 figures
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