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We investigate minimal two-body Hamiltonians with random interactions that generate spectra resembling those of Gaussian random matrices, a phenomenon we term quadratic quantum chaos. Unlike integrable two-body fermionic systems, the…

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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 study many-body quantum dynamics using Floquet quantum circuits in one space dimension as simple examples of systems with local interactions that support ergodic phases. Physical properties can be expressed in terms of multiple sums over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 S. J. Garratt , J. T. Chalker

We present a study of the recently discovered spatially-extended chaotic state known as spiral-defect chaos, which occurs in low-Prandtl-number, large-aspect-ratio Rayleigh-Benard convection. We employ the modulus squared of the space-time…

We analyze in detail a sharp transition between the low-energy, low-dimensional eigenstates and the high-energy chaotic bulk of the spectrum for a simple supersymmetric quantum-mechanical model with Hamiltonian $\hat{H}_S =…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-15 Pavel Buividovich

We study dynamical signatures of quantum chaos in one of the most relevant models in many-body quantum mechanics, the Bose-Hubbard model, whose high degree of symmetries yields a large number of invariant subspaces and degenerate energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Javier de la Cruz , Sergio Lerma-Hernandez , Jorge G. Hirsch

We study the relationship between quantum chaos and pseudorandomness by developing probes of unitary design. A natural probe of randomness is the "frame potential," which is minimized by unitary $k$-designs and measures the $2$-norm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Daniel A. Roberts , Beni Yoshida

Resonance states in quantum chaotic scattering systems have a multifractal structure that depends on their decay rate. We show how classical dynamics describes this structure for all decay rates in the semiclassical limit. This result for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-20 Roland Ketzmerick , Florian Lorenz , Jan Robert Schmidt

This paper investigates the spectral form factor (SFF) of the quadratic $R$-para-particle Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev ($R$-PSYK$_2$) model with various random matrix ensemble couplings. We generalize previous work on Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Tingfei Li

Assuming the validity of random matrices for describing the statistics of a closed chaotic quantum system, we study analytically some statistical properties of the S-matrix characterizing scattering in its open counterpart. In the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yan. V. Fyodorov , H. -J. Sommers

Quantum chaotic and integrable systems are known to exhibit a characteristic $1/f$ and $1/f^{2}$ noise, respectively, in the power spectrum associated to their spectral fluctuations. A recent work [R. Riser, V. A. Osipov, and E. Kanzieper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 A. L. Corps , A. Relaño

In this article, building on our recent investigations and motivated by the fuzzball-paradigm, we explore normal modes of a probe massless scalar field in the rotating BTZ-geometry in an asymptotically AdS spacetime and correspondingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 Suman Das , Arnab Kundu

The main signature of chaos in a quantum system is provided by spectral statistical analysis of the nearest neighbor spacing distribution and the spectral rigidity given by $\Delta_3(L)$. It is shown that some standard unfolding procedures,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 J. M. G. Gomez , R. A. Molina , A. Relano , J. Retamosa

Correlations between energy levels can help distinguish whether a many-body system is of integrable or chaotic nature. The study of short-range and long-range spectral correlations generally involves quantities which are very different,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Ruth Shir , Pablo Martinez-Azcona , Aurélia Chenu

We speak of chaos in quantum systems if the statistical properties of the eigenvalue spectrum coincide with predictions of random-matrix theory. Chaos is a typical feature of atomic nuclei and other self-bound Fermi systems. How can the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Papenbrock , H. A. Weidenmueller

We use semiclassical methods to evaluate the spectral two-point correlation function of quantum chaotic systems with discrete geometrical symmetries. The energy spectra of these systems can be divided into subspectra that are associated to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-12 Chris Joyner , Sebastian Müller , Martin Sieber

We study the dynamic structure factor $S(k,\omega)$ of the spin-1/2 chain with long-range, power-law decaying unfrustrated (sign alternating) Heisenberg interactions $J_r \sim (-1)^{r-1} r^{-\alpha}$ by means of stochastic analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-05 Sibin Yang , Gabe Schumm , Anders W. Sandvik

Recent development of the resonance scattering theory with a transient from the regular to chaotic internal dynamics inspires renewed interest to the problem of the elastic enhancement phenomenon. We reexamine the question what the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Yaroslav A. Kharkov , Valentin V. Sokolov

We experimentally disentangle the contributions of different quantum paths in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from the spectrally and spatially resolved harmonic spectra. By adjusting the laser intensity and focusing position, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Lixin He , Pengfei Lan , Qingbin Zhang , Chunyang Zhai , Feng Wang , Wenjing Shi , Peixiang Lu

Parametric energy-level correlation describes the response of the energy-level statistics to an external parameter such as the magnetic field. Using semiclassical periodic-orbit theory for a chaotic system, we evaluate the parametric…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Taro Nagao , Petr Braun , Sebastian Müller , Keiji Saito , Stefan Heusler , Fritz Haake