Thermalization of Dilute Impurities in One-Dimensional Spin Chains
Dries Sels, Anatoli Polkovnikov
Abstract
Strongly disordered interacting systems remember their initial conditions for very long times. But a popular explanation invoking emergent local integrals of motion appears to be unstable in interacting models.
Topics & Concepts
Ergodic theorySpinsDelocalized electronCondensed matter physicsPhysicsThermalisationImpurityRelaxation (psychology)Spin (aerodynamics)ErgodicityField (mathematics)Quantum mechanicsThermodynamicsMathematicsPsychologyPure mathematicsMathematical analysisSocial psychologyQuantum many-body systemsModel Reduction and Neural NetworksQuantum and electron transport phenomena