1. Universality in the onset of quantum chaos in many-body systems
- Author
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Tyler LeBlond, Marcos Rigol, Dries Sels, and Anatoli Polkovnikov
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Physics ,Quantum Physics ,Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) ,Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Upper and lower bounds ,Square (algebra) ,Quantum chaos ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Universality (dynamical systems) ,Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons ,Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) ,Lattice (order) ,Quantum mechanics ,0103 physical sciences ,Thermodynamic limit ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ,Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases ,010306 general physics ,Maxima ,Quantum ,Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics - Abstract
We show that the onset of quantum chaos at infinite temperature in two many-body one-dimensional lattice models, the perturbed spin-1/2 XXZ and Anderson models, is characterized by universal behavior. Specifically, we show that the onset of quantum chaos is marked by maxima of the typical fidelity susceptibilities that scale with the square of the inverse average level spacing, saturating their upper bound, and that the strength of the integrability- or localization-breaking perturbation at these maxima decreases with increasing system size. We also show that the spectral function below the ``Thouless'' energy (in the quantum-chaotic regime) diverges when approaching those maxima. Our results suggest that, in the thermodynamic limit, arbitrarily small integrability- or localization-breaking perturbations result in quantum chaos in the many-body quantum systems studied here., 12 pages, 13 figures, as published
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- 2021