Thermalization from quantum entanglement: jet simulations in the massive Schwinger model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14983v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:12:51 GMT
• Title: Thermalization from quantum entanglement: jet simulations in the massive Schwinger model
• Authors: Adrien Florio, David Frenklakh, Sebastian Grieninger, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Andrea Palermo, Shuzhe Shi,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the emergence of thermalization in a quantum field-theoretic model mimicking the production of jets in QCD.<n>Our results show how thermodynamic behavior emerges in real time from unitary quantum dynamics.
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• Abstract: We investigate the emergence of thermalization in a quantum field-theoretic model mimicking the production of jets in QCD -- the massive Schwinger model coupled to external sources. Specifically, we compute the expectation values of local operators as functions of time and compare them to their thermal counterparts, quantify the overlap between the evolving density matrix and the thermal one, and compare the dynamics of the energy-momentum tensor to predictions from relativistic hydrodynamics. Through these studies, we find that the system approaches thermalization at late times and elucidate the mechanisms by which quantum entanglement drives thermalization in closed field-theoretic systems. Our results show how thermodynamic behavior emerges in real time from unitary quantum dynamics.

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