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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">Abstract: </span><font color="#212121" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Studies of the quantum dynamics of isolated systems are currently
providing fundamental insights into how statistical mechanics emerges under unitary time evolution. Thermalization seems ubiquitous, but experiments with ultracold gases have shown that it need not always occur, particularly near an integrable point. Unfortunately,
computational studies of generic (nonintegrable) models are limited to small systems, for which arbitrarily long times can be calculated, or short times, for which large or infinite system sizes can be solved. Consequently, what happens in the thermodynamic
limit after long times has been inaccessible to theoretical studies. In this talk, we introduce a linked-cluster based computational approach that allows one to address the latter question in lattrice systems. We use this approach to: (i) probe the breakdown
of thermalization when approaching an integrable point [1], (ii) study quenches in the integrable XXZ chain [2,3], and (iii) probe the breakdown of thermalization when entering a many-body localized phase [4].</span></font></p>
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