Pavan Hosur on Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

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Pavan Hosur discusses the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and its implications in quantum mechanics.

Imagine walking deep into a dense forest without a map or GPS. Initially, you kind of know where you started. But as you wander further, eventually, it's impossible to tell where you came from — every direction looks the same. That's thermalization. The initial state's details get scrambled across all degrees of freedom and as a result local observables settle into a stable, time-independent state called the equilibrium state. The fact that macroscopic objects equilibrate with their env...

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Guest: Pavan Hosur

Topics covered

• thermalization
• equilibrium state
• quantum mechanics
• physics
• science

Keywords

• thermalization
• equilibrium
• quantum mechanics
• macroscopic objects
• degrees of freedom

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