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The spectral form factor (SFF) plays a crucial role in revealing the statistical properties of energy level distributions in complex systems. It is one of the tools to diagnose quantum chaos and unravel the universal dynamics therein. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhiyang Wei , Chengming Tan , Ren Zhang

The spectral form factor (SFF) can probe the eigenvalue statistic at different energy scales as its time variable varies. In closed quantum chaotic systems, the SFF exhibits a universal dip-ramp-plateau behavior, which reflects the spectrum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-22 Yi-Neng Zhou , Tian-Gang Zhou , Pengfei Zhang

The spectral form factor (SFF) is a powerful diagnostic of random matrix behavior in quantum many-body systems. We introduce a family of random circuit ensembles whose SFFs can be computed \textit{exactly}. These ensembles describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-24 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Lev Vidmar , Michael O. Flynn

We propose a novel indicator for chaotic quantum scattering processes, the scattering form factor (ScFF). It is based on mapping the locations of peaks in the scattering amplitude to random matrix eigenvalues, and computing the analog of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-24 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Jacob Sonnenschein , Dorin Weissman

In the physics literature the spectral form factor (SFF), the squared Fourier transform of the empirical eigenvalue density, is the most common tool to test universality for disordered quantum systems, yet previous mathematical results have…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Giorgio Cipolloni , László Erdős , Dominik Schröder

The quantum chaos is related to a Gaussian random matrix model, which shows a dip-ramp-plateau behavior in the spectral form factor for the large size $N$. The spectral form factor of time dependent Gaussian random matrix model shows also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 Arkaprava Mukherjee , Shinobu Hikami

We consider systems of fermions evolved by non-interacting unitary circuits with correlated on-site potentials. When these potentials are drawn from the eigenvalue distribution of a circular random matrix ensemble, the single-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-24 Michael O. Flynn , Lev Vidmar , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Spectral form factor (SFF), one of the key quantity from random matrix theory, serves as an important tool to probe universality in disordered quantum systems and quantum chaos. In this work, we present exact closed-form expressions for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Sohail , Youyi Huang , Lu Wei

The spectral form factor (SFF) captures universal spectral fluctuations as signatures of quantum chaos, and has been instrumental in advancing multiple frontiers of physics including the studies of black holes and quantum many-body systems.…

The spectral form factor (SFF) is an important diagnostic of energy level repulsion in random matrix theory (RMT) and quantum chaos. The short-time behavior of the SFF as it approaches the RMT result acts as a diagnostic of the ergodicity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Michael Winer , Brian Swingle

We study the onset of RMT dynamics in the mass-deformed SYK model (i.e. an SYK model deformed by a quadratic random interaction) in terms of the strength of the quadratic deformation. We use as chaos probes both the connected unfolded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Tomoki Nosaka , Dario Rosa , Junggi Yoon

Correlations between the energies of a system's spectrum are one of the defining features of quantum chaos. They can be probed using the Spectral Form Factor (SFF). We investigate how each spectral distance contributes in building this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Pablo Martinez-Azcona , Ruth Shir , Aurélia Chenu

The Spectral Form Factor (SFF) is defined as the modulus squared of the partition function in complex temperature for hermitian matrices and a suitable generalisation has been given in the non hermitian case. In this work we compute the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Dimitrios Charamis , Manas Kulkarni , Jorge Kurchan , Laura Foini

The spectral form factor of random matrix theory plays a key role in the description of disordered and chaotic quantum systems. While its moments are known to be approximately Gaussian, corrections subleading in the matrix dimension, $D$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Alex Altland , Francisco Divi , Tobias Micklitz , Silvia Pappalardi , Maedeh Rezaei

Signatures of dynamical quantum phase transitions and chaos can be found in the time evolution of generalized partition functions such as spectral form factors (SFF) and Loschmidt echoes. While a lot of work has focused on the nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-12 Anurag Sarkar , Subrata Pachhal , Adhip Agarwala , Diptarka Das

We propose a measure, which we call the dissipative spectral form factor (DSFF), to characterize the spectral statistics of non-Hermitian (and non-Unitary) matrices. We show that DSFF successfully diagnoses dissipative quantum chaos, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-03 Jiachen Li , Tomaž Prosen , Amos Chan

The Dissipative Spectral Form Factor (DSFF), recently introduced in [arXiv:2103.05001] for the Ginibre ensemble, is a key tool to study universal properties of dissipative quantum systems. In this work we compute the DSFF for a large class…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Giorgio Cipolloni , Nicolo Grometto

This paper investigates the spectral form factor (SFF) of the quadratic $R$-para-particle Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev ($R$-PSYK$_2$) model with various random matrix ensemble couplings. We generalize previous work on Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Tingfei Li

In the theory of disordered systems the spectral form factor $S(\tau)$, the Fourier transform of the two-level correlation function with respect to the difference of energies, is linear for $\tau<\tau_c$ and constant for $\tau>\tau_c$. Near…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Brézin , S. Hikami

The spectral form factor is believed to exhibit a special type of behavior called ``dip-ramp-plateau'' in chaotic quantum systems that originates from random matrix theory. This suggests that the shape of the spectral form factor could…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-02 Dmitry S. Ageev , Vasilii V. Pushkarev , Anastasia N. Zueva
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