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arxiv: 1804.07924 · v1 · pith:UB5LBKRVnew · submitted 2018-04-21 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.stat-mech

Probing thermality beyond the diagonal

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech
keywords off-diagonaleigenstateelementssectorthermalitythermalizationanalysisasymptotics
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We investigate the off-diagonal sector of eigenstate thermalization using both local and non-local probes in 2-dimensional conformal field theories. A novel analysis of the asymptotics of OPE coefficients via the modular bootstrap is performed to extract the behaviour of the off-diagonal matrix elements. We also probe this sector using semi-classical heavy-light Virasoro blocks. The results demonstrate signatures of thermality and confirms the entropic suppression of the off-diagonal elements as necessitated by the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis.

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