Peter Reimann, Michael Kastner
We investigate the equilibration of an isolated macroscopic quantum system in
the sense that deviations from a steady state become unmeasurably small for the
overwhelming majority of times within any sufficiently large time interval. The
main requirements are that the initial state, possibly far from equilibrium,
exhibits a macroscopic population of at most one energy level and that
degeneracies of energy eigenvalues and of energy gaps (differences of energy
eigenvalues) are not of exceedingly large multiplicities. Our approach closely
follows and extends recent works by Short and Farrelly, in particular going
beyond the realm of finite-dimensional systems and large effective dimensions.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2768
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