# Dynamical thermalization of interacting fermionic atoms in a Sinai-oscillator trap

## TL;DR

This paper numerically investigates how interacting fermionic atoms in a Sinai-oscillator trap undergo dynamical thermalization, resulting in Fermi-Dirac distribution without external heat baths, linked to quantum chaos.

## Contribution

It demonstrates that interactions above a certain threshold induce thermalization in a quantum chaotic trap, connecting many-body dynamics with statistical mechanics.

## Key findings

- Interactions above the Aberg criterion lead to Fermi-Dirac distribution.
- The system relaxes to thermal equilibrium without contact with a thermostat.
- Links between dynamical thermalization and quantum chaos are discussed.

## Abstract

We study numerically the problem of dynamical thermalization of interacting cold fermionic atoms placed in an isolated Sinai-oscillator trap. This system is characterized by a quantum chaos regime for one-particle dynamics. We show that for a many-body system of cold atoms the interactions, with a strength above a certain quantum chaos border given by the Aberg criterion, lead to the Fermi-Dirac distribution and relaxation of many-body initial states to the thermalized state in absence of any contact with a thermostate. We discuss the properties of this dynamical thermalization and its links with the Loschmidt-Boltzmann dispute.