5 years ago

Semiclassical Theory of Many-Body Quantum Chaos and its Bound.

Ehud Altman, Thomas Scaffidi

We introduce a direct quantum-classical correspondence for the chaotic dynamics of quantum many-body systems. The bound on chaos is understood as a "chaotic mobility edge" in the classical Lyapunov spectrum, separating the lower part of the spectrum for which a classical chaos picture applies from the higher part of the spectrum for which quantum interference effects destroy classical chaos. The dominant chaotic mode in bound-saturating systems is exactly at the "mobility edge" and therefore inherits a universal critical behavior. We provide an explicit example by introducing a classical version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model for which chaos can be understood as arising from diverging geodesics on a high-dimensional manifold with a random metric.

Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04768

DOI: arXiv:1711.04768v1

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