Equilibration and Thermalization in Quantum Systems

Presentations

• Observable Statistical Mechanics - Progress on long-range interacting systems and in the presence of non-commuting charges

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 20, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15173
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22882
  https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.150603
  https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2020-04-02-250/
  https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44066

  Presenters

  • Fabio Anza

    • University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Authors

  • Fabio Anza

    • University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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• Kinetic theory of long-range interacting quantum systems.

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: currently drafting the paper, work is still on progress. There is another preprint relatively connected to the work:
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06072

  Presenters

  • Daniel Arrufat Vicente

    • ETHZ

  Authors

  • Daniel Arrufat Vicente

    • ETHZ

  • Nicolò Defenu

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• Thermalization timescales in quantum systems with super-long-range interactions

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Sriram Chelakkara Lakshmanan

    • University of Connecticut

  Authors

  • Sriram Chelakkara Lakshmanan

    • University of Connecticut

  • Soumya Kanti Pal

  • ISAIAS VALLEJO

    • University of Connecticut

  • Lea F. Santos

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• Timescales for Equilibrium and Classicality

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Kiera Salice

    • University of Houston

  Authors

  • Kiera Salice

    • University of Houston

  • Rubem Mondaini

    • University of Houston

  • Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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• Randomization Timescales under Quantum Chaotic Hamiltonian Evolution

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: 1) Ghosh, S., Langlett, C. M., Hunter-Jones, N., & Rodriguez-Nieva, J. F. (2025). 'Late-time ensembles of quantum states in quantum chaotic systems'. Physical Review B, 112(9), 094302.
  2) Randomization Timescales under Quantum Chaotic Hamiltonian Evolution (upcoming work)

  Presenters

  • Souradeep Ghosh

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Souradeep Ghosh

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Nick Hunter-Jones

  • Joaquin Rodriguez-Nieva

    • Texas A&M University

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• Chaos and ergodicity breaking in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Publication: Microcanonical ensemble statistics of Lyapunov spectra and ergodicity breaking in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

  Presenters

  • Andrew Kalish

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Andrew Kalish

    • Emory University

  • Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro

    • Emory University

  • Wladimir Benalcazar

    • Emory University

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• Absence of integrals of motion implies typical thermalization of product states

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Tian-Hua Yang

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Tian-Hua Yang

    • Princeton University

  • Dmitry Abanin

    • Princeton University

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• Quantum thermalization and ℏ-expansion via quantization deformation

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Tan Nguyen

    • Boston University

  Authors

  • Tan Nguyen

    • Boston University

  • Zhengli Wu

  • Anatoli Polkovnikov

    • Boston University

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• Quantifying quantum ergodicity with semiclassical ℏ-expansion in Wigner-Weyl quantization

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Zhengli Wu

    • Boston University

  Authors

  • Zhengli Wu

    • Boston University

  • Tan Nguyen

    • Boston University

  • Anatoli Polkovnikov

    • Boston University

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• Eigenstate entanglement and thermalization with non-Abelian symmetries

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Siddharth Jindal

    • University of Houston

  Authors

  • Siddharth Jindal

    • University of Houston

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• Quantum State Randomization in the Presence of Non-Abelian Symmetries

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Publication: Ghosh, Langlett, Hunter-Jones, and Rodriguez-Nieva, Phys. Rev. B 112, 094302 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Yuhan Wu

    • Texas A&M University

  Authors

  • Yuhan Wu

    • Texas A&M University

  • Joaquin Rodriguez-Nieva

    • Texas A&M University

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• A random sampling method to test weak Eigenstate Thermalization

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Nicolaus Chlanda

    • Ursinus College

  Authors

  • Nicolaus Chlanda

    • Ursinus College

  • John Keim

    • Ursinus College

  • Isabel Martinez-Robles

    • Ursinus College

  • Thomas Carroll

    • Ursinus College

  • Michael Noel

    • Bryn Mawr College

  • Sarah Spielman

    • Bryn Mawr College

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