Eigenstate thermalization at the edge of the many-body spectrum

arXiv:2609.38973 · cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.dis-nn, cond-mat.stat-mech, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.dis-nn, cond-mat.stat-mech, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Entanglement — 37× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Entanglement Entropy — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Unitary Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• A theorem on extensive ground state entropy, spin liquidity and some related models
• Local Thermalization of SU(2) Lattice Gauge Fields on Quantum Computers

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