Does Quantum Chaos Explain Quantum Statistical Mechanics?
| dc.creator | Srednicki, Mark | |
| dc.date | 1994-10-14 | |
| dc.date | 1995-04-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:58:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:58:51Z | |
| dc.description | If a many-body quantum system approaches thermal equilibrium from a generic initial state, then the expectation value $\langleψ(t)|A_i|ψ(t)\rangle$, where $|ψ(t)\rangle$ is the system's state vector and $A_i$ is an experimentally accessible observable, should approach a constant value which is independent of the initial state, and equal to a thermal average of $A_i$ at an appropriate temperature. We show that this is the case for all simple observables whenever the system is classically chaotic. | |
| dc.description | 8 pages in RevTeX 3.0; revised version contains an improved discussion of quantum chaos more accessible to nonspecialists | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9410046 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9410046 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/147491 | |
| dc.subject | Condensed Matter | |
| dc.subject | Chaotic Dynamics | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Does Quantum Chaos Explain Quantum Statistical Mechanics? | |
| dc.type | text |