Time evolution of a quantum many-body system: transition from integrability to ergodicity in thermodynamic limit

Abstract

Numerical evidence is given for non-ergodic (non-mixing) behavior, exhibiting ideal transport, of a simple non-integrable many-body quantum system in the thermodynamic limit, namely kicked $t-V$ model of spinless fermions on a ring. However, for sufficiently large kick parameters $t$ and $V$ we recover quantum ergodicity, and normal transport, which can be described by random matrix theory.