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Quantum mechanical evolution towards thermal equilibrium

Linden, Noah, Popescu, Sandu, Short, Anthony J. et al.

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The circumstances under which a system reaches thermal equilibrium, and how to derive this from basic dynamical laws, has been a major question from the very beginning of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

Despite considerable progress, it remains an open problem.
Motivated by this issue, we address the more general question of equilibration.
We prove, with virtually full generality, that reaching equilibrium is a universal property of quantum systems: Almost any subsystem in interaction with a large enough bath will reach an equilibrium state and remain close to it for almost all times.

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