Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Typical fast thermalization processes in closed many-body systems

  • Peter Reimann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10821
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The relaxation of closed macroscopic systems towards thermal equilibrium is an ubiquitous experimental fact, but very difficult to characterize theoretically. Here, the author establishes a quantitative description of such relaxation under arbitrary typical conditions, capturing well experimental data.