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We consider quantum systems with a chaotic classical limit that depend on an external parameter, and study correlations between the spectra at different parameter values. In particular, we consider the parametric spectral form factor…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-09 Jack Kuipers , Martin Sieber

In chaotic quantum systems the spectral form factor exhibits a universal linear ramp and plateau structure with superimposed erratic oscillations. The mean signal and the statistics of the noise can be probed by the moments of the spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrea Legramandi , Neil Talwar

We present a semiclassical calculation of the generalized form factor which characterizes the fluctuations of matrix elements of the quantum operators in the eigenbasis of the Hamiltonian of a chaotic system. Our approach is based on some…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Turek , D. Spehner , S. Müller , K. Richter

We consider the semiclassical limit of the spectral form factor $K(\tau)$ of fully chaotic dynamics. Starting from the Gutzwiller type double sum over classical periodic orbits we set out to recover the universal behavior predicted by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Heusler , Sebastian Müller , Petr Braun , Fritz Haake

The complex Fourier transform of the two-point correlator of the energy spectrum of a quantum system is known as the spectral form factor (SFF). It constitutes an essential diagnostic tool for phases of matter and quantum chaos. In black…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Apollonas S. Matsoukas-Roubeas , Mathieu Beau , Lea F. Santos , Adolfo del Campo

We study spectral form factor in periodically-kicked bosonic chains. We consider a family of models where a Hamiltonian with the terms diagonal in the Fock space basis, including random chemical potentials and pair-wise interactions, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-30 Dibyendu Roy , Divij Mishra , Tomaž Prosen

We study the spectral properties of two classes of random matrix models: non-Gaussian RMT with quartic and sextic potentials, and RMT with Gaussian noise. We compute and analyze the quantum Krylov complexity and the spectral form factor for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-03 Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Ghadir Jafari , Jeff Murugan , Dimakatso Rapotu

We compute the full probability distribution of the spectral form factor in the self-dual kicked Ising model by providing an exact lower bound for each moment and verifying numerically that the latter is saturated. We show that at large…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ana Flack , Bruno Bertini , Tomaz Prosen

In this work, we study the spectral form factor of random matrix models which exhibit a large number of degenerate ground states accompanied by a macroscopic gap in the spectrum. The central aim of this work is to understand how the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 Krishan Saraswat

We show the emergence of random matrix theory (RMT) spectral correlations in the chaotic phase of generic periodically kicked interacting quantum many-body systems by analytically calculating spectral form factor (SFF), $K(t)$, up to two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-07 Vijay Kumar , Tomaž Prosen , Dibyendu Roy

It is well known that the spectral form factor (SFF) of a possibly degenerate many-body Hamiltonian can be identified with a planar random walk taking steps of unequal length. In this paper we push this identification further and propose to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Jovan Odavić , Alioscia Hamma

The Spectral Form Factor (SFF) measures the fluctuations in the density of states of a Hamiltonian. We consider a generalization of the SFF called the Loschmidt Spectral Form Factor, $\textrm{tr}[e^{iH_1T}]\textrm{tr} [e^{-iH_2T}]$, for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 Michael Winer , Brian Swingle

The Spectral Form Factor (SFF) is a convenient tool for the characterization of eigenvalue statistics of systems with discrete spectra, and thus serves as a proxy for quantum chaoticity. This work presents an analytical calculation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 W. L. Vleeshouwers , V. Gritsev

We consider a quasi one-dimensional chain of N chaotic scattering elements with periodic boundary conditions. The classical dynamics of this system is dominated by diffusion. The quantum theory, on the other hand, depends crucially on…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Dittrich , B. Mehlig , H. Schanz , U. Smilansky

The emergence of random matrix spectral correlations in interacting quantum systems is a defining feature of quantum chaos. We study such correlations in terms of the spectral form factor and its moments in interacting chaotic few- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Felix Fritzsch , Maximilian F. I. Kieler

We investigate a class of brickwork-like quantum circuits on chains of $d-$level systems (qudits) that share the so-called `dual unitarity' property. Namely, these systems generate unitary dynamics not only when propagating in the time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

We study the dissipative spectral form factor (DSFF) at complex time $T e^{i\theta}$ for the complex elliptic Ginibre ensemble with non-Hermiticity parameter $\tau \in [0,1)$. As the matrix dimension $N \to \infty$, we consider the natural…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Gernot Akemann , Sung-Soo Byun , Seungjoon Oh

We study the effects of an arbitrary external perturbation in the statistical properties of the S-matrix of quantum chaotic scattering systems in the limit of isolated resonances. We derive, using supersymmetry, an exact non-perturbative…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. S. Macedo

We introduce randomness into a class of integrable models and study the spectral form factor as a diagnostic to distinguish between randomness and chaos. Spectral form factors exhibit a characteristic dip-ramp-plateau behavior in the $N>2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Pak Hang Chris Lau , Chen-Te Ma , Jeff Murugan , Masaki Tezuka

We study the behavior of two-time correlation functions at late times for finite system sizes considering observables whose (one-point) average value does not depend on energy. In the long time limit, we show that such correlation functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-20 Oscar Bouverot-Dupuis , Silvia Pappalardi , Jorge Kurchan , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Laura Foini