Meanings
verb
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of prethermalize
In cases where H#95;#42; is ergodic, the driven system prethermalizes to a thermal state described by H#95;#42; at intermediate times t#92;lesssim#92;tau#95;#42;, eventually heating up to an infinite-temperature state at times t#92;sim#92;tau#95;#42;.
2015, D. A. Abanin, W. De Roeck, W. W. Ho, “Effective Hamiltonians, prethermalization and slow energy absorption in periodically driven many-body systems”, in arXiv
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