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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) 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 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

This is a collection of notes that are about spectral form factors of standard ensembles in the random matrix theory, written for the practical usage of current study of late time quantum chaos. More precisely, we consider Gaussian Unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-02 Junyu Liu

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) 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

The statistical properties of the quantum chaotic spectra have been studied, so far, only up to the second order correlation effects. The numerical as well as the analytical evidence that random matrix theory can successfully model the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Pragya Shukla

The spectral form factor (SFF), characterizing statistics of energy eigenvalues, is a key diagnostic of many-body quantum chaos. In addition, partial spectral form factors (PSFFs) can be defined which refer to subsystems of the many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Lata Kh Joshi , Andreas Elben , Amit Vikram , Benoît Vermersch , Victor Galitski , Peter Zoller

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 explore quantum chaos diagnostics of variational circuit states at random parameters and study their correlation with the circuit expressibility and the optimization of control parameters. By measuring the operator spreading coefficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Joonho Kim , Yaron Oz , Dario Rosa

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

While the notion of quantum chaos is tied to random matrix spectral correlations, also eigenstate properties in chaotic systems are often assumed to be described by random matrix theory. Analytic insights into eigenstate correlations can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Felix Fritzsch , Maximilian F. I. Kieler , Arnd Bäcker

We study the time evolution operator in a family of local quantum circuits with random fields in a fixed direction. We argue that the presence of quantum chaos implies that at large times the time evolution operator becomes effectively a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Pavel Kos , Bruno Bertini , Tomaž Prosen

We continue the study of random matrix universality in two-dimensional conformal field theories. This is facilitated by expanding the spectral form factor in a basis of modular invariant eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Felix M. Haehl , Wyatt Reeves , Moshe Rozali

Spectral statistics such as the level spacing statistics and spectral form factor (SFF) are widely expected to accurately identify ``ergodicity'', including the presence of underlying macroscopic symmetries, in generic quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Laura Shou , Amit Vikram , Victor Galitski

We review quantum chaos on graphs. We construct a unitary operator which represents the quantum evolution on the graph and study its spectral and wavefunction statistics. This operator is the analogue of the classical evolution operator on…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsampikos Kottos

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

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

We study the statistical properties of the scattering matrix associated with generic quantum graphs. The scattering matrix is the quantum analogue of the classical evolution operator on the graph. For the energy-averaged spectral form…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tsampikos Kottos , Holger Schanz
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