nLab eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

Idea

A hypothesis about the emergence of thermodynamics in quantum many-body systems?.

References

• Mark Srednicki, Chaos and Quantum Thermalization, Phys Rev E 50 (1994) 888 (arXiv:cond-mat/9403051v2)

See also

• Wikipedia, Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

Relation to quantum error correcting codes obtained from holographic tensor networks:

• Ning Bao, Newton Cheng, Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and Approximate Quantum Error Correction, JHEP 08 (2019) 152 (arXiv:1906.03669)