Typical thermalization of low-entanglement states.

ABSTRACT: Proving thermalization from the unitary evolution of closed quantum systems is one of the oldest questions that is still only partially resolved. Efforts led to various versions of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), which implies thermalization under certain conditions. Whether the ETH holds in specific systems is however difficult to verify from the microscopic description of the system. In this work, we focus on thermalization under local Hamiltonians of low-entanglement initial states, which are operationally accessible in many natural physical settings, including schemes for testing thermalization in experiments and quantum simulators. We prove thermalization of these states under precise conditions that have operational significance. More specifically, motivated by argume

SUBMITTER: Bertoni C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12270909 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature