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Thermalization through unitary evolution of pure states

Stein Olav Skrøvseth

abstract: The unitary time evolution of a critical quantum spin chain with an impurity is calculated, and the entanglement evolution is shown. Moreover, we show that the reduced density matrix of a part of the chain evolves such that the fidelity of its spectrum is very high with respect to a state in thermal equilibrium. Hence, a thermal state occurs through unitary time evolution in a simple spin chain with impurity.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0606216
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
8 pages, 7 figures
doi:
10.1209/epl/i2006-10388-9
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0606216
journal_ref:
Europhys. Lett. 76, 1179 (2006)
created:
2006-06-26
updated:
2006-11-23

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