Thermalization and pseudolocality in extended quantum systems (Q521140)

In this paper, the author rigorously investigates pseudolocal charges and their involvement in time evolution and in the thermalization process of arbitrary states with strong clustering properties. It is shown that the densities of pseudolocal charges form a Hilbert space, with inner product determined by thermodynamic susceptibilities. Using this, the family of pseudolocal states is defined, which are determined by pseudolocal charges. It is shown that the family of pseudolocal states is preserved by finite time evolution, and that, under certain conditions, the stationary state emerging at infinite time is a generalized Gibbs ensemble with respect to the evolution dynamics. Further, in case the evolution dynamics does not admit any conserved pseudolocal charges other than the evolution Hamiltonian, then any stationary pseudolocal state with respect to these dynamics is a thermal Gibbs state, and that Gibbs thermalization occurs.