Over the past decade, there has been remarkable progress in our understanding of equilibration, thermalization and prethermalization, due in large part to experimental breakthroughs in ultracold atomic gases. These advances have made it possible to investigate how isolated quantum systems thermalize and why certain special many-body states do not. An overview on recent theoretical and experimental developments is given.

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超冷原子的量子平衡，热化和预热

在过去的十年中，我们对平衡，热化和预热的理解有了显着进步，这在很大程度上是由于超冷原子气体的实验性突破。这些进步使得研究孤立的量子系统如何热化以及某些特殊的多体态为何不热化成为可能。概述了最新的理论和实验发展。