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Excitonic Hamiltonians for Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra and Optoelectronic Properties of Molecular Aggregates and Solids
Published on: May 27, 2020
Relaxation to Gaussian and generalized Gibbs states in systems of particles with quadratic Hamiltonians
Chaitanya Murthy1, Mark Srednicki1
1Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Abstract:
We present an elementary, general, and semiquantitative description of relaxation to Gaussian and generalized Gibbs states in lattice models of fermions or bosons with quadratic Hamiltonians. Our arguments apply to arbitrary initial states that satisfy a mild condition on clustering of correlations. We also show that similar arguments can be used to understand relaxation (or its absence) in systems with time-dependent quadratic Hamiltonians and provide a semiquantitative description of relaxation in quadratic periodically driven (Floquet) systems.
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