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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

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

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

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) 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) 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

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 Dissipative Spectral Form Factor (DSFF), recently introduced in [arXiv:2103.05001] for the Ginibre ensemble, is a key tool to study universal properties of dissipative quantum systems. In this work we compute the DSFF for a large class…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Giorgio Cipolloni , Nicolo Grometto

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 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

We consider systems of fermions evolved by non-interacting unitary circuits with correlated on-site potentials. When these potentials are drawn from the eigenvalue distribution of a circular random matrix ensemble, the single-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-24 Michael O. Flynn , Lev Vidmar , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

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

The spectral form factor of quantum chaotic systems has the familiar `ramp $+$ plateau' form. Techniques to determine its form in the semiclassical or the thermodynamic limit have been devised, in both cases based on the average over an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-16 Guy Bunin , Laura Foini , Jorge Kurchan

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

To describe longitudinal fine structure like microbunching within a particle beam, a classical approach is to define a bunching factor which is the Fourier transform of the particle longitudinal density distribution. Such a 1D definition of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Xiujie Deng

Form factor sequences of an integrable QFT can be defined axiomatically as solutions of a system of recursive functional equations, known as ``form factor equations''. We show that their solution can be replaced with the study of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. R. Niedermaier

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

It is well known that the spectral form factor (SFF) of a possibly degenerate many-body Hamiltonian can be identified with a planar random walk taking steps of unequal length. In this paper we push this identification further and propose to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Jovan Odavić , Alioscia Hamma

The fractional quantum Hall states are non-Fermi liquids of electrons, in that their ground states and low energy excitations are described not in terms of electrons but in terms of composite fermions which are bound states of electrons and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-24 Mytraya Gattu , G. J. Sreejith , J. K. Jain

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
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