Thermalization and prethermalization in isolated quantum systems: a theoretical overview

T Mori, TN Ikeda, E Kaminishi… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The approach to thermal equilibrium, or thermalization, in isolated quantum systems is
among the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Recent theoretical studies have …

Colloquium: Nonequilibrium dynamics of closed interacting quantum systems

A Polkovnikov, K Sengupta, A Silva… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
This Colloquium gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the
area of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. There is particularly a focus …

Generalized Gibbs ensemble in integrable lattice models

L Vidmar, M Rigol - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The generalized Gibbs ensemble (GGE) was introduced ten years ago to describe
observables in isolated integrable quantum systems after equilibration. Since then, the GGE …

Quench dynamics and relaxation in isolated integrable quantum spin chains

FHL Essler, M Fagotti - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the dynamics after quantum quenches in integrable quantum spin chains. We
give a pedagogical introduction to relaxation in isolated quantum systems, and discuss the …

Quantum quenches in 1+ 1 dimensional conformal field theories

P Calabrese, J Cardy - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the imaginary time path integral approach to the quench dynamics of conformal
field theories. We show how this technique can be applied to the determination of the time …

Quantum quench in the transverse-field Ising chain

P Calabrese, FHL Essler, M Fagotti - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We consider the time evolution of observables in the transverse-field Ising chain after a
sudden quench of the magnetic field. We provide exact analytical results for the asymptotic …

Time evolution of local observables after quenching to an integrable model

JS Caux, FHL Essler - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We consider quantum quenches in integrable models. We argue that the behavior of local
observables at late times after the quench is given by their expectation values with respect to …

Quenching the anisotropic Heisenberg chain: exact solution and generalized Gibbs ensemble predictions

B Wouters, J De Nardis, M Brockmann, D Fioretto… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We study quenches in integrable spin-1/2 chains in which we evolve the ground state of the
antiferromagnetic Ising model with the anisotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian. For this …

Out-of-time-ordered correlators in a quantum Ising chain

CJ Lin, OI Motrunich - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have been proposed to characterize quantum chaos
in generic systems. However, they can also show interesting behavior in integrable models …

Quantum quench in the transverse field Ising chain: I. Time evolution of order parameter correlators

P Calabrese, FHL Essler, M Fagotti - Journal of Statistical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the time evolution of order parameter correlation functions after a sudden
quantum quench of the magnetic field in the transverse field Ising chain. Using two novel …