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Near-stationary high energy state in a chiral channel driven out of equilibrium
Add to Calendar 2021-12-06T20:30:00 2021-12-06T21:30:00 UTC Near-stationary high energy state in a chiral channel driven out of equilibrium https://psu.zoom.us/j/94777536024?pwd=Y09idXJSMmorRUJPV3VhalJMTFFVZz09 Password: 342891
Start DateMon, Dec 06, 2021
3:30 PM
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End DateMon, Dec 06, 2021
4:30 PM
Presented By
Bernd Rosenow, Uni Leipzig
Event Series: CAMP Seminar

Ergodic many-body systems are expected to reach quasi-thermal equilibrium. Here we demonstrate that, surprisingly, high-energy electrons, which are injected into an interacting one-dimensional quantum Hall edge mode, stabilize at a far-from-thermalized state over a long-time scale. To detect this non-equilibrium state, one positions an energy-resolved detector downstream of the point of injection.  While in the case of short-ranged interactions in multi-channel systems the energy distribution generically relaxes to a near-thermal asymptotic state, we here consider a screened interaction of finite range and obtain a different result:  the resulting many-body state comprises fast-decaying transient components, followed by a nearly stationary distribution with a peak near the injection energy.