Continuous Transition Between Weak and Strong Thermalization using Rigorous Bounds on Equilibration of Isolated Systems

Luis Fernando dos Prazeres, Thiago R. de Oliveira

Published 2023-10-20Version 1

We analyze strong and weak thermalization regimes from a perspective of rigorous mathematical upper bounds on the equilibration of isolated quantum systems. We show that weak equilibration can be understood to be due to the small effective dimension of the initial state. Furthermore, analyzing the scaling of an upper bound on the fluctuations, we show that the observable fluctuations decay exponentially with the system size for both weak and strong thermalization indicating no sharp transitions between these two regimes.