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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) 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

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

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

We consider Random Matrix Theories with non-Gaussian potentials that have a rich phase structure in the large $N$ limit. We calculate the Spectral Form Factor (SFF) in such models and present them as interesting examples of dynamical models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Adwait Gaikwad , Ritam Sinha

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

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

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

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

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

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 investigate crystalline-like behavior of the spectral form factor (SFF) in unitary quantum systems with extremely strong eigenvalue repulsion. Using a low-temperature Coulomb gas as a model of repulsive eigenvalues, we derive the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Dmitrii A. Trunin , David A. Huse

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

In this paper, we survey some recent progress on rigorously establishing the universality of various spectral statistics of Wigner Hermitian random matrix ensembles, focusing on the Four Moment Theorem and its refinements and applications,…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-02 Terence Tao , Van Vu

The spatial Fourier spectrum of the electron density distribution in a finite 1D system and the distribution function of electrons over single-particle states are studied in detail to show that there are two universal features in their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-09 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

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

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

Continuous symmetries are fundamental to many scientific and learning problems, yet they are often unknown a priori. Existing symmetry discovery approaches typically search directly in the space of transformation generators or rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pavan Karjol , Kumar Shubham , Prathosh AP

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
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