Publication Date:
2015-04-11
Description:
The description of the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum many-body systems within the framework of statistical mechanics is a fundamental open question. Conventional thermodynamical ensembles fail to describe the large class of systems that exhibit nontrivial conserved quantities, and generalized ensembles have been predicted to maximize entropy in these systems. We show experimentally that a degenerate one-dimensional Bose gas relaxes to a state that can be described by such a generalized ensemble. This is verified through a detailed study of correlation functions up to 10th order. The applicability of the generalized ensemble description for isolated quantum many-body systems points to a natural emergence of classical statistical properties from the microscopic unitary quantum evolution.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Langen, Tim -- Erne, Sebastian -- Geiger, Remi -- Rauer, Bernhard -- Schweigler, Thomas -- Kuhnert, Maximilian -- Rohringer, Wolfgang -- Mazets, Igor E -- Gasenzer, Thomas -- Schmiedmayer, Jorg -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Apr 10;348(6231):207-11. doi: 10.1126/science.1257026.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien, 1020 Vienna, Austria. ; Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien, 1020 Vienna, Austria. Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI), GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany. ; Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien, 1020 Vienna, Austria. Wolfgang Pauli Institute, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia. ; Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI), GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany. ; Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien, 1020 Vienna, Austria. schmiedmayer@atomchip.org.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25859041" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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