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Philippe Sabella-Garnier
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2019
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Physics
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Free or integrable theories are usually considered to be too constrained to thermalize. For example, the retarded two-point function of a free field, even in a thermal state, does not decay to zero at long times. On the other hand, the magnetic susceptibility of the critical transverse field Ising is known to thermalize, even though that theory can be mapped by a Jordan-Wigner transformation to that of free fermions. We reconcile these two statements by clarifying under which conditions conserved charges can prevent relaxation at the level of linear response and how such obstruction can be overcome. In particular, we give a necessary condition for the decay of retarded Greens functions. We give explicit examples of composite operators in free theories that nevertheless satisfy that condition and therefore do thermalize. We call this phenomenon the Operator Thermalization Hypothesis as a converse to the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis.
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