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We introduce the Krylov distribution $\mathcal{D}(\xi)$, a static Krylov-space diagnostic that characterizes how inverse-energy response is organized in Hilbert space. The central object is the resolvent-dressed state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Mohsen Alishahiha , Mohammad Javad Vasli

Systems where time evolution follows a multiplicative process are ubiquitous in physics. We study a toy model for such systems where each time step is given by multiplication with an independent random $N\times N$ matrix with complex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Gernot Akemann , Zdzislaw Burda , Mario Kieburg

Krylov subspace methods quantify operator growth in quantum many-body systems through Lanczos coefficients that encode how operators spread under time evolution. Although these diagnostics were originally motivated by questions of chaos and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Rishabh Jha , Heiko Georg Menzler

The entanglement of eigenstates in two coupled, classically chaotic kicked tops is studied in dependence of their interaction strength. The transition from the non-interacting and unentangled system towards full random matrix behavior is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Tabea Herrmann , Maximilian F. I. Kieler , Felix Fritzsch , Arnd Bäcker

Random neural networks are dynamical descriptions of randomly interconnected neural units. These show a phase transition to chaos as a disorder parameter is increased. The microscopic mechanisms underlying this phase transition are unknown,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-18 Gilles Wainrib , Jonathan Touboul

Scrambling of information in a quantum many-body system, quantified by the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC), is a key manifestation of quantum chaos. A regime of exponential growth in the OTOC, characterized by a Lyapunov exponent, has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Anna Keselman , Laimei Nie , Erez Berg

The propagation of chaos is a central concept of kinetic theory that serves to relate the equations of Boltzmann and Vlasov to the dynamics of many-particle systems. Propagation of chaos means that molecular chaos, i.e., the stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander David Gottlieb

We investigate the dynamics of two coherently coupled dissipative time crystals. In the classical mean-field limit of infinite spin length, we identify a regime of chaotic synchronization, marked by a positive largest Lyapunov exponent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Eliška Postavová , Gianluca Passarelli , Procolo Lucignano , Angelo Russomanno

We have drawn connections between the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and the multi-orbit Hatsugai-Kohmoto model, emphasizing their similarities and differences regarding chaotic behaviors. The features of the spectral form factor, such as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Ying-Lin Li , Chen-Te Ma , Po-Yao Chang

The dynamics of extended many-body systems are generically chaotic. Classically, a hallmark of chaos is the exponential sensitivity to initial conditions captured by positive Lyapunov exponents. Supplementing chaotic dynamics with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-25 Camille Aron , Manas Kulkarni

We study the dynamical properties of the canonical ordered phase of the Hamiltonian mean-field (HMF) model, in which $N$ particles, globally-coupled via pairwise attractive interactions, form a rotating cluster. Using a combination of…

Quantum chaos in isolated quantum systems is intimately linked to thermalization and the rapid relaxation of observables. Although the spectral properties of the chaotic phase in the tilted Bose-Hubbard model have been well characterized,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Carlos Diaz-Mejia , Sergio Lerma-Hernandez , Jorge G. Hirsch

This note shows how to considerably strengthen the usual mode of convergence of an $n$-particle system to its McKean-Vlasov limit, often known as propagation of chaos, when the volatility coefficient is nondegenerate and involves no…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Daniel Lacker

Building on the duality between Krylov complexity and geodesic length in Jackiw-Teitelboim and sine-dilaton gravity, we develop a precise holographic dictionary for quantities in the Krylov subspace of the double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Yichao Fu , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

In isolated quantum many-body systems periodically driven in time, the asymptotic dynamics at late times can exhibit distinct behavior such as thermalization or dynamical freezing. Understanding the properties of and the convergence towards…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-23 Luke Staszewski , Asmi Haldar , Pieter W. Claeys , Alexander Wietek

The Lyapunov exponent characterizes an exponential growth rate of the difference of nearby orbits. A positive Lyapunov exponent is a manifestation of chaos. Here, we propose the Lyapunov pair, which is based on the generalized Lyapunov…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Takuma Akimoto , Masaki Nakagawa , Soya Shinkai , Yoji Aizawa

Krylov complexity measures operator growth with respect to a basis, which is adapted to the Heisenberg time evolution. The construction of that basis relies on the Lanczos algorithm, also known as the recursion method. The mathematics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Wolfgang Mück , Yi Yang

We study information scrambling -- a spread of initially localized quantum information into the system's many degree of freedom -- in discrete-time quantum walks. We consider out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) and K-complexity as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Himanshu Sahu

Dynamical quantum phase transitions, encompassing phenomena like many-body localization transitions and measurement-induced phase transitions, are often characterized and identified through the analysis of quantum entanglement. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Wei Xia , Jie Zou , Xiaopeng Li

We consider a non-interacting many-fermion system populating levels of a unitary random matrix ensemble (equivalent to the q=2 complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model) - a generic model of single-particle quantum chaos. We study the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-22 Yunxiang Liao , Amit Vikram , Victor Galitski