Generalized Gibbs ensemble prediction of prethermalization plateaus and their relation to nonthermal steady states in integrable systems
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Marcus Kollar,1 F. Alexander Wolf,1,* and Martin Eckstein2 1Theoretical Physics III, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany 2Institute of Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland (Received 18 February 2011; revised manuscript received 19 April 2011; published 11 August 2011)
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