Normal weak eigenstate thermalizationŁydżba, Patrycja (Avtor) Świętek, Rafał (Avtor) Mierzejewski, Marcin (Avtor) Rigol, Marcos (Avtor) Vidmar, Lev (Avtor) quantum chaosthermalizationlocalizationEigenstate thermalization has been numerically shown to occur for few-body observables in a wide range of nonintegrable models. For intensive sums of few-body observables, a weaker version of eigenstate thermalization known as weak eigenstate thermalization has been proved to occur in general. Here, we unveil a stricter weak eigenstate thermalization phenomenon that occurs in quadratic models exhibiting quantum chaos in the single-particle sector (quantum-chaotic quadratic models) and in integrable interacting models. In such models, we argue that few-body observables that have a properly defined system-size independent norm are guaranteed to exhibit at least a polynomially vanishing variance (over the entire many-body energy spectrum) of the diagonal matrix elements, a phenomenon we dub normal weak eigenstate thermalization. We prove that normal weak eigenstate thermalization is a consequence of single-particle eigenstate thermalization, i.e., it can be viewed as a manifestation of quantum chaos at the single-particle level. We report numerical evidence of normal weak eigenstate thermalization for quantum-chaotic quadratic models such as the three-dimensional Anderson model in the delocalized regime and the power-law random banded matrix model, as well as for the integrable interacting spin-1/2 XYZ and XXZ models.20242024-12-12 12:20:38Članek v reviji165854UDK: 538.9ISSN pri članku: 2469-9950DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.104202COBISS_ID: 217686275sl