Diagnosing Thermalization via Participation Ratio in Disordered Bosonic Chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04818v3
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:05:42 GMT
• Title: Diagnosing Thermalization via Participation Ratio in Disordered Bosonic Chains
• Authors: Javier de la Cruz, Carlos Diaz-Mejia, Sergio Lerma-Hernandez, Jorge G. Hirsch,
• Abstract summary: We study thermalization in a disordered bosonic system described by the Aubry-Andre model using full exact diagonalization.<n>We find a broad chaotic energy window where the system's eigenstates satisfy the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH), demonstrated by the smooth energy dependence of observables like entanglement entropy and local particle number.<n>Dynamically, we investigate the equilibration of initial Fock states and find that thermalization is not universal.
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• Abstract: We study thermalization in a disordered one-dimensional interacting bosonic system described by the Aubry-Andre model using full exact diagonalization. We find a broad chaotic energy window where the system's eigenstates satisfy the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH), demonstrated by the smooth energy dependence of observables like entanglement entropy and local particle number, whose fluctuations decrease with system size. Dynamically, we investigate the equilibration of initial Fock states and find that thermalization is not universal. The key finding is a direct and nontrivial correlation between an initial state's delocalization in the energy eigenbasis quantified by the Participation Ratio (PR) and its subsequent equilibration. States with a high PR consistently evolve toward the microcanonical ensemble prediction, whereas those exhibiting a low PR display deviations whose magnitude inversely correlates with the PR value. This connection is quantitatively confirmed by the trace distance, providing a powerful, experimentally relevant diagnostic for predicting which initial states will reach thermal equilibrium.

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