English
Related papers

Related papers: Generalized Spectral Form Factor in Random Matrix …

200 papers

In the physics literature the spectral form factor (SFF), the squared Fourier transform of the empirical eigenvalue density, is the most common tool to test universality for disordered quantum systems, yet previous mathematical results have…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Giorgio Cipolloni , László Erdős , Dominik Schröder

The spectral form factor is a powerful probe of quantum chaos that diagnoses the statistics of energy levels, but is blind to other features of a theory such as matrix elements of operators or OPE coefficients in conformal field theories.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Alexandre Belin , Jan de Boer , Pranjal Nayak , Julian Sonner

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

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 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 (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

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

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

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 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 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

The spectral form factor (SFF) is an important diagnostic of energy level repulsion in random matrix theory (RMT) and quantum chaos. The short-time behavior of the SFF as it approaches the RMT result acts as a diagnostic of the ergodicity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Michael Winer , Brian Swingle

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

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), 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 propose a measure, which we call the dissipative spectral form factor (DSFF), to characterize the spectral statistics of non-Hermitian (and non-Unitary) matrices. We show that DSFF successfully diagnoses dissipative quantum chaos, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-03 Jiachen Li , Tomaž Prosen , Amos Chan

Signatures of dynamical quantum phase transitions and chaos can be found in the time evolution of generalized partition functions such as spectral form factors (SFF) and Loschmidt echoes. While a lot of work has focused on the nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-12 Anurag Sarkar , Subrata Pachhal , Adhip Agarwala , Diptarka Das

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 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
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›