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Feng-Li Lin1, Jhh-Jing Hong1, Ching-Yu Huang2
1National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Physics, Taipei 11677, Taiwan.
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We consider the thermalization hypothesis of pure states in nonintegrable quantum spin chains with conserved charges, including the nonintergable variants of the Ising chain with Z_{2} symmetry, XXZ chain with U(1) symmetry, and XXX chain with SU(2) symmetries. Two kinds of pure states are considered: the energy eigenstates and the typical states evolved unitarily from the random product states for a long enough period. We further group the typical states by their expectation values of the conserved charges and consider the fine-grained thermalization hypothesis. We compare the locally (subsystem) reduced states of typical states/eigenstates with the ones of the corresponding thermal ensemble states. Besides the usual thermal ensembles such as the (micro)canonical ensemble without conserved charges and the generalized Gibbs ensemble (GGE) with all conserved charges included, we also consider the so-called partial-GGEs (p-GGEs), which include only part of the conserved charges in the thermal ensemble. Moreover, in the framework of p-GGE, the Hamiltonian and other conserved charges are on an equal footing. The introduction of p-GGEs extends quantum thermalization to a more general scope. The validity of the subsystem thermalization hypothesis can be quantified by the smallness of the relative entropy of the reduced states obtained from the GGE/p-GGE and the typical states/eigenstates. We examine the validity of the thermalization hypothesis by numerically studying the relative entropy demographics. We show that the thermalization hypothesis holds generically for small enough subsystems for various p-GGEs. Thus, our framework extends the universality of quantum thermalization.
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