Speaker:
Anton Kapustin
Institution:
Caltech
Time:
Friday, January 30, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
RH 340
It is expected that a generic closed many-body system prepared in a well-behaved initial state and subjected to a periodic drive will eventually thermalize, i.e. approach the state of maximal entropy. This property, while compatible with and even demanded by physical intuition, is much stronger than ergodicity or mixing and is difficult to justify mathematically. We describe an infinite set of classical many-body Floquet systems of algebraic origin for which thermalization of very general initial states can be proved.
