• DOI:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031214-014726
Corpus ID: 118465889

Many-Body Localization and Thermalization in Quantum Statistical Mechanics

@article{Nandkishore2015ManyBodyLA,
  title={Many-Body Localization and Thermalization in Quantum Statistical Mechanics},
  author={R. Nandkishore and D. Huse},
  journal={Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics},
  year={2015},
  volume={6},
  pages={15-38}
}

R. Nandkishore, D. Huse

Published 2015

Physics

Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

We review some recent developments in the statistical mechanics of isolated quantum systems. We provide a brief introduction to quantum thermalization, paying particular attention to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) and the resulting single-eigenstate statistical mechanics. We then focus on a class of systems that fail to quantum thermalize and whose eigenstates violate the ETH: These are the many-body Anderson-localized systems; their long-time properties are not captured by the… CONTINUE READING

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