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Thermal Measurement Techniques in Analytical Microfluidic Devices
Published on: June 3, 2015
Analytic model of thermalization: Quantum emulation of classical cellular automata
1Department of Physics, Keio University, Hiyoshi 3-14-1, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Abstract:
We introduce a method of quantum emulation of a classical reversible cellular automaton. By applying this method to a chaotic cellular automaton, the obtained quantum many-body system thermalizes while all the energy eigenstates and eigenvalues are solvable. These explicit solutions allow us to verify the validity of some scenarios of thermalization to this system. We find that two leading scenarios, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis scenario and the large effective dimension scenario, do not explain thermalization in this model.
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