Session H6: Quench Dynamics and Thermalization in Quantum Systems

8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Sponsoring Units: DCMP DAMOP
Chair: Vladimir Gritsev, Harvard University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.MAR.H6.2

Abstract: H6.00002 : Microscopic diagonal entropy and many-body dynamics

8:36 AM–9:12 AM

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Author:

  Roman Barankov
    (Boston University)

We define microscopic diagonal entropy to characterize many-body dynamics of systems far from equilibrium. For the systems prepared initially in thermal equilibrium, it increases with time and is related to the heat generated in the dynamics. We illustrate our results with numerical simulations of a toy-BCS model.

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