From Quantum Dynamics to the Canonical Distribution: General Picture and a Rigorous Example

Details From Quantum Dynamics to the Canonical Distribution: General Picture and a Rigorous Example From Quantum Dynamics to the Canonical Distribution: General Picture and a Rigorous Example

1997-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9707253v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

LaTeX, 8 pages, no figures. The title, abstract and some discussions are modified to stress physical motivation of the work. R

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1373

Derivation of the canonical (or Boltzmann) distribution based only on quantum dynamics is discussed. Consider a closed system which consists of mutually interacting subsystem and heat bath, and assume that the whole system is initially in a pure state (which can be far from equilibrium) with small energy fluctuation. Under the "hypothesis of equal weights for eigenstates", we derive the canonical distribution in the sense that, at sufficiently large and typical time, the (instantaneous) quantum mechanical expectation value of an arbitrary operator of the subsystem is almost equal to the desired canonical expectation value. We present a class of examples in which the above derivation can be rigorously established without any unproven hypotheses.

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