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SUMMARY:Séminaire du LPTMS: Grégoire Ithier *** séminaire exceptionnel *
 ** - LPTMS\, salle 201\, 2ème étage\, Bât 100\, Campus d'Orsay - 12 Avr
  18 11:30
DESCRIPTION:Typicality and unconventional equilibrium states of an embedded
  quantum system.\nGrégoire Ithier (Royal Holloway\, London\, UK)\n\nIn re
 cent years\, the progress in quantum engineering has provided new tools fo
 r simulating the dynamics of truly isolated quantum systems. These systems
 \, made of trapped ions or cold atoms[1]\, can be prepared in a global pur
 e state and their level of isolation is such that they evolve unitarily ac
 cording to the Schrödinger equation. Surprisingly\, despite being at all 
 times in a pure quantum state\, they display signatures of a local equilib
 ration which can be in strong disagreement with the predictions of statis
 tical physics [2]. These experimental facts are clearly questioning what k
 ind of statistical description is relevant for isolated many body quantum 
 systems.\n\nIn this talk\, I will present our recent results on a theoreti
 cal model dedicated to this problem. This model considers a quantum system
  coupled to a large quantum environment\, and introduces  some randomness
  at the level of the interaction Hamiltonian. We then demonstrate that the
  system has a typical dynamics for several classes of random interactions 
 and most importantly for arbitrary system\, environment\, and global initi
 al state [3]. In other words\, the microscopic structure of interaction Ha
 miltonians does not matter and reduced density matrices have a self-averag
 ing property. \n\nThese results have two important consequences: first th
 ey can explain the absence of sensitivity to microscopic details of proces
 ses like e.g. thermalization. Second they provide the rigorous ground for 
 an averaging procedure over random interactions which can be used for anal
 ytical non perturbative calculations performed with full generality i.e. f
 or arbitrary system\, environment\, and initial state.\n\nWe apply this te
 chnique to calculate analytically the stationary state at long times of th
 e system and find a new thermodynamical ensemble more general than the mic
 rocanonical one [4]. \n \n\n 	[1] C. Gross and I. Bloch\, Quantum simula
 tions with ultracold atoms in optical lattices\, Science 357\, 6355\, pp. 
 995-1001  (2017)\n 	[2] M. Schreiber et al\, Observation of many-body loc
 alization of interacting fermions in a quasirandom optical lattice\, Scien
 ce 349\, 6250\, pp. 842-845 (2015)\n 	[3] G. Ithier and F. Benaych-Georges
 \, Dynamical typicality of embedded quantum systems\, Phys. Rev. A 96\, 01
 2108 (2017)\n 	[4] G. Ithier\, S. Ascroft\, and F. Benaych-Georges\, Typic
 al equilibrium state of an embedded quantum system\, Phys. Rev. E 96\, 060
 102(R) (2017) \n\n\n
LOCATION:LPTMS\, salle 201\, 2ème étage\, Bât 100\, Campus d'Orsay\, 15 
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