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We demonstrate that the long-time dynamics of an observable associated with a single lattice site is sufficient to determine whether a many-body quantum system exhibits level statistics characteristic of random matrix theory, a widely used…

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We show that in the semiclassical limit, classically chaotic systems have universal spectral statistics. Concentrating on short-time statistics, we identify the pairs of classical periodic orbits determining the small-$\tau$ behavior of the…

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Discerning chaos in quantum systems is an important problem as the usual route of Lyapunov exponents in classical systems is not straightforward in quantum systems. A standard route is the comparison of statistics derived from model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-09 Debojyoti Kundu , Santosh Kumar , Subhra Sen Gupta

Consider a classically chaotic system which is described by a Hamiltonian H_0. At t=0 the Hamiltonian undergoes a sudden-change H_0 -> H. We consider the quantum-mechanical spreading of the evolving energy distribution, and argue that it…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsampikos Kottos , Doron Cohen

Ergodicity is a fundamental principle of statistical mechanics underlying the behavior of generic quantum many-body systems. However, how this universal many-body quantum chaotic regime emerges due to interactions remains largely a puzzle.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-25 Yunxiang Liao , Victor Galitski

Quantum many-body systems are commonly considered as quantum chaotic if their spectral statistics, such as the level spacing distribution, agree with those of random matrix theory. Using the example of the kicked Ising chain we demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Tabea Herrmann , Maximilian F. I. Kieler , Arnd Bäcker

A deep understanding of the mechanisms underlying many-body quantum chaos is one of the big challenges in contemporary theoretical physics. We tackle this problem in the context of a set of perturbed quadratic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Alexei Andreanov , Matteo Carrega , Jeff Murugan , Jan Olle , Dario Rosa , Ruth Shir

Quantum chaotic systems are conjectured to display a spectrum whose fine-grained features (gaps and correlations) are well described by Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We propose and develop a complementary version of this conjecture: quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Vijay Balasubramanian , Javier M. Magan , Qingyue Wu

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.…

Dynamical properties of classical chaotic systems, for instance relaxation, can be understood as emerging from the time evolution of initially smooth long-wavelength densities to ever finer short-wavelength densities with fractal structure.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Urban Duh , Marko Žnidarič

We argue that in a large class of disordered quantum many-body systems, the late time dynamics of time-dependent correlation functions is captured by random matrix theory, specifically the energy eigenvalue statistics of the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-14 Jordan Cotler , Nicholas Hunter-Jones

We investigate spectral statistics in spatially extended, chaotic many-body quantum systems with a conserved charge. We compute the spectral form factor $K(t)$ analytically for a minimal Floquet circuit model that has a $U(1)$ symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-06 Aaron J. Friedman , Amos Chan , Andrea De Luca , J. T. Chalker

Quantum many-body systems can exhibit distinct regimes where dynamics is either ergodic, dynamically exploring an extensive region of available state-space, or non-ergodic, where the dynamics may be restricted. An example is the many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Venelin P. Pavlov , Peter A. Ivanov , Diego Porras , Charlie Nation

We study the quantum-classical correspondence for systems with interacting spin-particles that are strongly chaotic in the classical limit. This is done in the presence of constants of motion associated with the fixed angular momenta of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-10 Luis Benet , Fausto Borgonovi , Felix M. Izrailev , Lea F. Santos

A remarkable feature of chaos in many-body quantum systems is the existence of a bound on the quantum Lyapunov exponent. An important question is to understand what is special about maximally chaotic systems which saturate this bound. Here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Mike Blake , Hong Liu

We present experimental and theoretical results for the fluctuation properties in the incomplete spectra of quantum systems with symplectic symmetry and a chaotic dynamics in the classical limit. To obtain theoretical predictions, we extend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Jiongning Che , Junjie Lu , 2 Xiaodong Zhang , 1 Barbara Dietz , Guozhi Chai

We introduce the notion of multi-dimensional chaos that applies to processes described by erratic functions of several dynamical variables. We employ this concept in the interpretation of classical and quantum scattering off a pinball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Jacob Sonnenschein , Dorin Weissman

Quantum chaotic systems are often defined via the assertion that their spectral statistics coincides with, or is well approximated by, random matrix theory. In this paper we explain how the universal content of random matrix theory emerges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Alexander Altland , Julian Sonner

Quantum chaos in many-body systems provides a bridge between statistical and quantum physics with strong predictive power. This framework is valuable for analyzing properties of complex quantum systems such as energy spectra and the…

There is a newly emerging understanding that in the chaotic domain of isolated finite interacting many particle systems smoothed densities define the statistical description of these systems and these densities follow from embedded…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. K. B. Kota , R. Sahu