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Solvable models of many-body chaos from dual-Koopman circuits

Chaotic Dynamics 2024-09-25 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Dual-unitary circuits are being vigorously studied as models of many-body quantum chaos that can be solved exactly for correlation functions and time evolution of states. Here we define their classical counterparts as dual-canonical transformations and associated dual-Koopman operators. Like their quantum counterparts, the correlations vanish everywhere except on the light cone, on which they decay with rates governed by a simple contractive map. Providing a large class of such dual-canonical transformations, we study in detail the example of a coupled standard map and show analytically that arbitrarily away from the integrable case, in the thermodynamic limit the system is mixing. We also define ``perfect" Koopman operators that lead to the correlation vanishing everywhere including on the light cone and provide an example of a cat-map lattice which would qualify to be a Bernoulli system at the apex of the ergodic hierarchy.

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@article{arxiv.2307.04950,
  title  = {Solvable models of many-body chaos from dual-Koopman circuits},
  author = {Arul Lakshminarayan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04950},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Revised version, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett