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Lennart Dabelow1, Peter Reimann1
1Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
Abstract:
An analytical prediction is established of how an isolated many-body quantum system relaxes towards its thermal longtime limit under the action of a time-independent perturbation, but still remaining sufficiently close to a reference case whose temporal relaxation is known. This is achieved within the conceptual framework of a typicality approach by showing and exploiting that the time-dependent expectation values behave very similarly for most members of a suitably chosen ensemble of perturbations. The predictions are validated by comparison with various numerical and experimental results from the literature.
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