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Many-body chaos at weak coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-11 v2

Abstract

The strength of chaos in large NN quantum systems can be quantified using λL\lambda_L, the rate of growth of certain out-of-time-order four point functions. We calculate λL\lambda_L to leading order in a weakly coupled matrix Φ4\Phi^4 theory by numerically diagonalizing a ladder kernel. The computation reduces to an essentially classical problem.

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@article{arxiv.1512.07687,
  title  = {Many-body chaos at weak coupling},
  author = {Douglas Stanford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07687},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

13+8 pages, v2: minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-22T12:17:14.583Z