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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) 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

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

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

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

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 (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 study the spectral form factor (SFF) for hydrodynamic systems with a sound pole, a large class including any fluid with momentum conservation and energy conservation, or any extended system with spontaneously broken continuous symmetry.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 Michael Winer , Brian Swingle

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 investigate a class of brickwork-like quantum circuits on chains of $d-$level systems (qudits) that share the so-called `dual unitarity' property. Namely, these systems generate unitary dynamics not only when propagating in the time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

The spectral form factor is believed to exhibit a special type of behavior called ``dip-ramp-plateau'' in chaotic quantum systems that originates from random matrix theory. This suggests that the shape of the spectral form factor could…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-02 Dmitry S. Ageev , Vasilii V. Pushkarev , Anastasia N. Zueva

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

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 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

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 defined as the modulus squared of the partition function in complex temperature for hermitian matrices and a suitable generalisation has been given in the non hermitian case. In this work we compute the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Dimitrios Charamis , Manas Kulkarni , Jorge Kurchan , Laura Foini

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 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 study the Stephani quantum cosmological model in the presence of a cosmological constant in radiation dominated Universe. In the present work the Schutz's variational formalism which recovers the notion of time is applied. This gives…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Pedram , S. Jalalzadeh , S. S. Gousheh
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