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We describe the dynamics of many-body quantum chaotic systems at all time scales by studying the Green's and out-of-time order correlation (OTOC) functions of the four-body, $N$-Majorana Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. By combining the scramblon…

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We reason in support of the universality of quantum spectral fluctuations in chaotic systems, starting from the pioneering work of Sieber and Richter who expressed the spectral form factor in terms of pairs of periodic orbits with…

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We investigate the physical consequences of having a spectrum that satisfies random matrix theory (RMT) for generic Lindbladians, and compare its implications for spatially local and completely random Lindblad dynamics in one spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Sanket Chirame , Fiona J. Burnell

Quantum chaotic systems are conjectured to display a spectrum whose fine-grained features (gaps and correlations) are well described by Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We propose and develop a complementary version of this conjecture: quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Vijay Balasubramanian , Javier M. Magan , Qingyue Wu

We semiclassically derive the leading off-diagonal correction to the spectral form factor of quantum systems with a chaotic classical counterpart. To this end we present a phase space generalization of a recent approach for uniformly…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Turek , K. Richter

In this work, we investigate the quantum chaos in various $T\bar{T}$-deformed SYK models with finite $N$, including the SYK$_4$, the supersymmetric SYK$_4$, and the SYK$_2$ models. We numerically study the evolution of the spectral form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Song He , Pak Hang Chris Lau , Zhuo-Yu Xian , Long Zhao

The Dicke model, renowned for its superradiant quantum phase transition, also exhibits a transition from regular to chaotic dynamics. In this work, we provide a systematic, comparative study of static and dynamical indicators of chaos for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Prasad Pawar , Arpan Bhattacharyya , B. Prasanna Venkatesh

The spectral fluctuations of a quantum Hamiltonian system with time-reversal symmetry are studied in the semiclassical limit by using periodic-orbit theory. It is found that, if long periodic orbits are hyperbolic and uniformly distributed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dominique Spehner

We study quantum chaos and spectral correlations in periodically driven (Floquet) fermionic chains with long-range two-particle interactions, in the presence and absence of particle number conservation ($U(1)$) symmetry. We analytically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Dibyendu Roy , Tomaž Prosen

We investigate the role of quantum monitoring in the dynamical manifestations of Hamiltonian quantum chaos. Specifically, we analyze the generalized spectral form factor, defined as the survival probability of a coherent Gibbs state under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Preethi Gopalakrishnan , András Grabarits , Adolfo del Campo

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

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 dynamical signatures of quantum chaos in an isolated system are captured by the spectral form factor, which exhibits as a function of time a dip, a ramp, and a plateau, with the ramp being governed by the correlations in the level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Julien Cornelius , Zhenyu Xu , Avadh Saxena , Aurelia Chenu , Adolfo del Campo

We study the transition between integrable and chaotic behaviour in dissipative open quantum systems, exemplified by a boundary driven quantum spin-chain. The repulsion between the complex eigenvalues of the corresponding Liouville operator…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-25 Gernot Akemann , Mario Kieburg , Adam Mielke , Tomaz Prosen

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a cornerstone in the study of quantum chaos and holographic quantum matter. Real-world implementations, however, deviate from the idealized all-to-all connectivity, raising questions about the robustness…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-20 Andrea Legramandi , Soumik Bandyopadhyay , Philipp Hauke

We investigate the appearance of quantum chaos in a single many-body wave function by analyzing the statistical properties of the eigenvalues of its reduced density matrix $\rho_A$ of a spatial subsystem A. We find that the spectrum of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Xiao Chen , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We develop a theory of symmetry in open quantum systems. Using the operator-state mapping, we characterize symmetry of Liouvillian superoperators for the open quantum dynamics by symmetry of operators in the double Hilbert space and apply…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Kohei Kawabata , Anish Kulkarni , Jiachen Li , Tokiro Numasawa , Shinsei Ryu

For Hamiltonian systems, level statistics provide a faithful diagnostic of quantum chaos. By analogy, the statistics of the Lindbladian spectrum are often used in open quantum systems, and the Grobe-Haake-Sommers conjecture proposes that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Caio B. Naves , Thomas Klein Kvorning , Jonas Larson

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