Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2009-02-05
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110403 (2009)
Physics
Quantum Physics
4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.110403
We show that the vast majority of all pure states featuring a common expectation value of some generic observable at a given time will yield very similar expectation values of the same observable at any later time. This is meant to apply to Schroedinger type dynamics in high dimensional Hilbert spaces. As a consequence individual dynamics of expectation values are then typically well described by the ensemble average. Our approach is based on the Hilbert space average method. We support the analytical investigations with numerics obtained by exact diagonalization of the full time-dependent Schroedinger equation for some pertinent, abstract Hamiltonian model. Furthermore, we discuss the implications on the applicability of projection operator methods with respect to initial states, as well as on irreversibility in general.
Bartsch Christian
Gemmer Jochen
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