2 papers
quant-ph2024
Foundation of statistical mechanics under even more experimentally realistic conditions
M. R. Passos, Thiago R. de Oliveira
Understanding how macroscopic systems exhibit irreversible thermal behavior has been a long-standing challenge, first brought to prominence by Boltzmann. Recent advances have estab…
quant-ph2018
Equilibration times in closed quantum many-body systems
H. Wilming, T. R. de Oliveira, A. J. Short +1
For a quantum system to be captured by a stationary statistical ensemble, as is common in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, it is necessary that it reaches some apparently…