Chaos and high temperature pure state thermalization

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2019)025MaRDI QIDQ2314895zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yuri D. Lensky, Xiao-Liang Qi

Publication date 30 July 2019

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03675

zbMATH Keywords

quantum dissipative systemsrandom systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum chaos (81Q50) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: Classical arguments for thermalization of isolated systems do not apply in a straightforward way to the quantum case. Recently, there has been interest in diagnostics of quantum chaos in many- body systems. In the classical case, chaos is a popular explanation for the legitimacy of the methods of statistical physics. In this work, we relate a previously proposed criteria of quantum chaos in the unitary time evolution operator to the entanglement entropy growth for a far-from-equilibrium initial pure state. By mapping the unitary time evolution operator to a doubled state, chaos can be characterized by suppression of mutual information between subsystems of the past and that of the future. We show that when this mutual information is small, a typical unentangled initial state will evolve to a highly entangled final state. Our result provides a more concrete connection between quantum chaos and thermalization in many-body systems.

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