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Area of Science:

  • Quantum Many-Body Physics
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics

Background:

  • Understanding thermalization in closed quantum systems is a fundamental challenge.
  • Local thermalization dynamics are crucial for quantum information processing and understanding complex quantum phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and demonstrate a novel method for probing local thermalization in large-scale quantum many-body systems.
  • To investigate the mechanisms of thermalization in a three-dimensional dipolar-interacting spin system with tunable interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Exploiting inherent system disorder to probe local thermalization.
  • Utilizing advanced Hamiltonian engineering to explore various spin Hamiltonians.
  • Analyzing the decay of local correlations and its characteristic shape and timescale.

Main Results:

  • Observed a striking change in local correlation decay dynamics by varying engineered exchange anisotropy.
  • Demonstrated that these changes originate from intrinsic many-body dynamics.
  • Revealed signatures of conservation laws within localized spin clusters, which are not apparent with global probes.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method offers a sensitive probe of tunable local thermalization dynamics.
  • This approach enables detailed studies of quantum scrambling, thermalization, and hydrodynamics in strongly interacting systems.
  • The findings provide new insights into the microscopic mechanisms governing thermalization in quantum systems.