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Eigenstate thermalization in chaotic Floquet systems

Background In closed time-independent Hamiltonian systems, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) states, roughly speaking, that energy eigenstates "look thermal". More precisely, ...
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Microcanonical ensemble, ergodicity and symmetry breaking

In a brief introduction to statistical mechanics, that is a part of a wider course on Solid State Physics I am taking, the teacher introduced the concept of microcanonical ensemble and the ergodic ...
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