Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Weakly Broken Integrability

Understand

Motivated by dynamical experiments on cold atomic gases, we develop a quantum kinetic approach to weakly perturbed integrable models out of equilibrium.

• Using the exact matrix elements of the underlying integrable model we establish an analytical approach to real-time dynamics.
• The method addresses a broad range of timescales, from the intermediate regime of pre-thermalization to late-time thermalization.
• Predictions are given for the time-evolution of physical quantities, including effective temperatures and thermalization rates.