  Since the first suggestion of the Jarzynski equality many derivations of this
equality have been presented in both, the classical and the quantum context.
While the approaches and settings greatly differ from one to another, they all
appear to rely on the initial state being a thermal Gibbs state. Here, we
present an investigation of work distributions in driven isolated quantum
systems, starting off from pure states that are close to energy eigenstates of
the initial Hamiltonian. We find that, for the nonintegrable system in quest,
the Jarzynski equality is fulfilled to good accuracy.
