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From many-body oscillations to thermalization in an isolated spinor gas

Bertrand Evrard
An Qu
Fabrice Gerbier

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The dynamics of a many-body system can take many forms, from a purely reversible evolution to fast thermalization. Here we show experimentally and numerically that an assembly of spin 1 atoms all in the same spatial mode allows one to explore this wide variety of behaviors. When the system can be described by a Bogoliubov analysis, the relevant energy spectrum is linear and leads to undamped oscillations of many-body observables. Outside this regime, the non-linearity of the spectrum leads to irreversibity, characterized by a universal behavior. When the integrability of the Hamiltonian is broken, a chaotic dynamics emerges and leads to thermalization, in agreement with the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis paradigm.
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Bertrand Evrard, An Qu, Jean Dalibard, Fabrice Gerbier. From many-body oscillations to thermalization in an isolated spinor gas. Physical Review Letters, 2021, 126, ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.063401⟩. ⟨hal-03098378⟩
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