prethermal
adjEtymology From pre- + thermal.
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Prior to thermalization
- It features the crossover from a prequench to a prethermal state, finally evolving towards a thermal state on increasing length and time scales.2015, Michael Buchhold, Markus Heyl, Sebastian Diehl, “Prethermalization and Thermalization of a Quenched Interacting Luttinger Liquid”, in arXiv: