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Many-body quantum chaos in mixtures of multiple species

Quantum Physics 2024-03-28 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study spectral correlations in many-body quantum mixtures of fermions, bosons, and qubits with periodically kicked spreading and mixing of species. We take two types of mixing, namely, Jaynes-Cummings and Rabi, respectively, satisfying and breaking the conservation of a total number of species. We analytically derive the generating Hamiltonians whose spectral properties determine the spectral form factor in the leading order. We further analyze the system-size (L)(L) scaling of Thouless time tt^*, beyond which the spectral form factor follows the prediction of random matrix theory. The LL-dependence of tt^* crosses over from logL\log L to L2L^2 with an increasing Jaynes-Cummings mixing between qubits and fermions or bosons in a finite-sized chain, and it finally settles to tO(L2)t^* \propto \mathcal{O}(L^2) in the thermodynamic limit for any mixing strength. The Rabi mixing between qubits and fermions leads to tO(logL)t^*\propto \mathcal{O}(\log L), previously predicted for single species of qubits or fermions without total number conservation.

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@article{arxiv.2310.06811,
  title  = {Many-body quantum chaos in mixtures of multiple species},
  author = {Vijay Kumar and Dibyendu Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.06811},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures