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Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems - Tomaž Prosen
1. Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
Tomaž Prosen
Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
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Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
2. What is quantum chaos....
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
3. What is quantum chaos....
.. and how does it fit to many-body physics and statistical mechanics?
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
4. Outline
Quantum chaos and Quantum chaology
The quantum chaos conjecture: semiclassical versus many-body
Quantum ergodicity, decay of correlations and Loschmidt echo
Integrability breaking ergodicity/non-ergodicity transition in spin chains
Quantum chaos in non-equilibrium steady states of open many body
systems
Out-of-time order correlation functions and Weak quantum chaos
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
5. Chaos and random matrix theory
[Berry 1977, Casati, Guarneri and Val-Gris 1982, Bohigas, Giannoni and
Schmit 1984, ...]
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Figure 1. Examples of trajectories of a particle bouncing in a cavity: (a) non-chaotic circular and (b) chaotic
Bunimovich stadium. The images were taken from scholarpedia [60].
of freedom N:
{Ij, H} = 0, {Ij, Ik} = 0, where {f, g} =
X
j=1,N
@f
@qj
@g
@pj
@f
@pj
@g
@qj
. (1)
From Liouville’s integrability theorem [59], it follows that there is a canonical trans-
formation (p, q) ! (I, ⇥) (where I, ⇥ are called action-angle variables) such that
H(p, q) = H(I) [58]. As a result, the solutions of the equations of motion for the action-
angle variables are trivial: Ij(t) = I0
j = constant, and ⇥j(t) = ⌦jt + ⇥j(0). For obvious
reasons, the motion is referred to as taking place on an N-dimensional torus, and it is
not chaotic.
To get a feeling for the di↵erences between integrable and chaotic systems, in Fig. 1,
Physics Review
uantum Chaos in Physical Systems
Examples of Wigner-Dyson and Poisson Statistics
m matrix statistics has found many applications since its introduction by Wigner.
xtend far beyond the framework of the original motivation, and have been inten-
xplored in many fields (for a recent comprehensive review, see Ref. [93]). Examples
ntum systems whose spectra exhibit Wigner-Dyson statistics are: (i) heavy nuclei
) Sinai billiards (square or rectangular cavities with circular potential barriers in
nter) [85], which are classically chaotic as the Bunimovich stadium in Fig. 1, (iii)
excited levels5 of the hydrogen atom in a strong magnetic field [95], (iv) Spin-1/2
s and spin-polarized fermions in one-dimensional lattices [69, 70]. Interestingly, the
r-Dyson statistics is also the distribution of spacings between zeros of the Riemann
nction, which is directly related to prime numbers. In turn, these zeros can be
eted as Fisher zeros of the partition function of a particular system of free bosons
ppendix B). In this section, we discuss in more detail some examples originating
ver 30 years of research.
nuclei - Perhaps the most famous example demonstrating the Wigner-Dyson
cs is shown in Fig. 2. That figure depicts the cumulative data of the level spacing
ution obtained from slow neutron resonance data and proton resonance data of
30 di↵erent heavy nuclei [71, 96]. All spacings are normalized by the mean level
g. The data are shown as a histogram and the two solid lines depict the (GOE)
r-Dyson distribution and the Poisson distribution. One can see that the Wigner-
distribution works very well, confirming Wigner’s original idea.
Nearest neighbor spacing distribution for the “Nuclear Data Ensemble” comprising 1726 spacings
m) versus normalized (to the mean) level spacing. The two lines represent predictions of the random
OE ensemble and the Poisson distribution. Taken from Ref. [96]. See also Ref. [71].
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0.7r
0.4r
⌦
(1, 1)
(0, 0)
Figure 1. One of the regions proven by Sinai to
be classically chaotic is this region Ω
constructed from line segments and circular
arcs.
Traditionally, analysis of the spectrum recovers
information such as the total area of the billiard,
from the asymptotics of the counting function
N(λ) = #{λn ≤ λ}: As λ → ∞, N(λ) ∼ area
4π
λ
(Weyl’s law). Quantum chaos provides completely
different information: The claim is that we should
be able to recover the coarse nature of the dynam-
ics of the classical system, such as whether they
are very regular (“integrable”) or “chaotic”. The
term integrable can mean a variety of things, the
least of which is that, in two degrees of freedom,
there is another conserved quantity besides ener-
gy, and ideally that the equations of motion can be
explicitly solved by quadratures. Examples are the
rectangular billiard, where the magnitudes of the
momenta along the rectangle’s axes are conserved,
or billiards in an ellipse, where the product of an-
gular momenta about the two foci is conserved,
and each billiard trajectory repeatedly touches a
conic confocal with the ellipse. The term chaotic
indicates an exponential sensitivity to changes
of initial condition, as well as ergodicity of the
motion. One example is Sinai’s billiard, a square
billiard with a central disk removed; another class
of shapes investigated by Sinai, and proved by him
Figure 2. This figure gives some idea of how
classical ergodicity arises in Ω.
s = 0 1 2 3 4
y = e s
Figure 3. It is conjectured that the distribution
of eigenvalues π2
(m2
/a2
+ n2
/b2
) of a
rectangle with sufficiently incommensurable
sides a, b is that of a Poisson process. The
mean is 4π/ab by simple geometric reasoning,
s = 0 1 2 3 4
GOE distribution
Figure 4. Plotted here are the normalized gaps
between roughly 50,000 sorted eigenvalues
for the domain Ω, computed by Alex Barnett,
compared to the distribution of the
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0.4r
⌦
(1, 1)
(0, 0)
Figure 1. One of the regions proven by Sinai to
be classically chaotic is this region Ω
constructed from line segments and circular
arcs.
Traditionally, analysis of the spectrum recovers
information such as the total area of the billiard,
from the asymptotics of the counting function
N(λ) = #{λn ≤ λ}: As λ → ∞, N(λ) ∼ area
4π
λ
(Weyl’s law). Quantum chaos provides completely
different information: The claim is that we should
be able to recover the coarse nature of the dynam-
ics of the classical system, such as whether they
are very regular (“integrable”) or “chaotic”. The
term integrable can mean a variety of things, the
least of which is that, in two degrees of freedom,
there is another conserved quantity besides ener-
gy, and ideally that the equations of motion can be
explicitly solved by quadratures. Examples are the
rectangular billiard, where the magnitudes of the
momenta along the rectangle’s axes are conserved,
or billiards in an ellipse, where the product of an-
gular momenta about the two foci is conserved,
and each billiard trajectory repeatedly touches a
conic confocal with the ellipse. The term chaotic
indicates an exponential sensitivity to changes
of initial condition, as well as ergodicity of the
motion. One example is Sinai’s billiard, a square
billiard with a central disk removed; another class
of shapes investigated by Sinai, and proved by him
Figure 2. This figure gives some idea of how
classical ergodicity arises in Ω.
s = 0 1 2 3 4
y = e s
Figure 3. It is conjectured that the distribution
of eigenvalues π2
(m2
/a2
+ n2
/b2
) of a
rectangle with sufficiently incommensurable
sides a, b is that of a Poisson process. The
mean is 4π/ab by simple geometric reasoning,
Figure 3. (Left panel) Distribution of 250,000 single-particle energy level spacings in a rectangular two-
dimensional box with sides a and b such that a/b = 4
p
5 and ab = 4⇡. (Right panel) Distribution of 50,000
single-particle energy level spacings in a chaotic cavity consisting of two arcs and two line segments (see inset).Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
6. tion of such spacings below a given bound x is
x
−∞ P(s)ds. A dramatic insight of quantum chaos
is given by the universality conjectures for P(s):
• If the classical dynamics is integrable, then
P(s) coincides with the corresponding quantity for
a sequence of uncorrelated levels (the Poisson en-
semble) with the same mean spacing: P(s) = ce−cs
,
c = area/4π (Berry and Tabor, 1977).
• If the classical dynamics is chaotic, then P(s)
coincides with the corresponding quantity for the
eigenvalues of a suitable ensemble of random
matrices (Bohigas, Giannoni, and Schmit, 1984).
Remarkably, a related distribution is observed for
the zeros of Riemann’s zeta function.
Not a single instance of these conjectures is
known, in fact there are counterexamples, but
the conjectures are expected to hold “generically”,
that is unless we have a good reason to think oth-
erwise. A counterexample in the integrable case
is the square billiard, where due to multiplici-
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lower energies) and chaotic (occurring at higher energies) motion [98]. Results of numeri-
cal simulations (see Fig. 4) show a clear interpolation between Poisson and Wigner-Dyson
level statistics as the dimensionless energy (denoted by ˆE) increases [95]. Note that at
intermediate energies the statistics is neither Poissonian nor Wigner-Dyson, suggesting
Figure 4. The level spacing distribution of a hydrogen atom in a magnetic field. Di↵erent plots correspond to
di↵erent mean dimensionless energies ˆE, measured in natural energy units proportional to B2/3, where B is the
magnetic field. As the energy increases one observes a crossover between Poisson and Wigner-Dyson statistics.
The numerical results are fitted to a Brody distribution (solid lines) [87], and to a semi-classical formula due to
Berry and Robnik (dashed lines) [97]. From Ref. [95].
Hydrogen atom in uniform magnetic field [Wintgen and Friedrich 1987].
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
7. The proof of Quantum chaos conjecture: Semiclassics
[Berry 1985, Sieber and Richter 2001, Müller, ...and Haake 2004,2005]
A simple key object: Spectral correlation function
R( ) =
1
¯ρ2
ρ(E +
2π¯ρ
)ρ(E −
2π¯ρ
− 1
or the spectral form factor
K(τ) =
1
π
∞
−∞
d R( )e2i τ
∼
n
ei nτ
2
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
8. The proof of Quantum chaos conjecture: Semiclassics
[Berry 1985, Sieber and Richter 2001, Müller, ...and Haake 2004,2005]
A simple key object: Spectral correlation function
R( ) =
1
¯ρ2
ρ(E +
2π¯ρ
)ρ(E −
2π¯ρ
− 1
or the spectral form factor
K(τ) =
1
π
∞
−∞
d R( )e2i τ
∼
n
ei nτ
2
In non-integrable systems with a chaotic classical lomit, form factor has two
regimes:
universal described by RMT,
non-universal described by short classical periodic orbits.
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
9. For chaotic (hyperbolic) systems, K(τ), to all orders in τn
, agrees with RMT!
(based on small asymptotics!)
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
10. For chaotic (hyperbolic) systems, K(τ), to all orders in τn
, agrees with RMT!
(based on small asymptotics!)
To first order, this is captured by the diagonal approximation (Berry)
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
11. For chaotic (hyperbolic) systems, K(τ), to all orders in τn
, agrees with RMT!
(based on small asymptotics!)
To first order, this is captured by the diagonal approximation (Berry)
To second order, the RMT term is reproduced by considering so-called
Sieber-Richter pairs of orbits
4
Figure 1. Bunch of 72 (pseudo-)orbits differing in two three-encounters and one
two-encounter (a pseudo-orbit is a set of several disjoined orbits; see below).
Different orbits not resolved except in blowups of encounters.
Figure 2. Sieber–Richter pair.
where two stretches of an orbit are close (see figure 2). Full agreement with all coefficients cn
from RMT was established by the present authors in [13, 14].
In none of these works, oscillatory contributions could be obtained (note however
courageous forays by Keating [16] and Bogomolny and Keating [17]), due to the fact that
Gutzwiller’s formula for the level density is divergent. To enforce convergence, one needs to
allow for complex energies with imaginary parts large compared to the mean level spacing,
Im ✏ 1. Oscillatory terms proportional to e2i✏
then become exponentially small and cannot be
resolved within the conventional semiclassical approach.
In [18], we proposed a way around this difficulty that we here want to elaborate in detail.Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
12. For chaotic (hyperbolic) systems, K(τ), to all orders in τn
, agrees with RMT!
(based on small asymptotics!)
To first order, this is captured by the diagonal approximation (Berry)
To second order, the RMT term is reproduced by considering so-called
Sieber-Richter pairs of orbits
Figure 1. Bunch of 72 (pseudo-)orbits differing in two three-encounters and one
two-encounter (a pseudo-orbit is a set of several disjoined orbits; see below).
Different orbits not resolved except in blowups of encounters.
Figure 2. Sieber–Richter pair.
where two stretches of an orbit are close (see figure 2). Full agreement with all coefficients cn
from RMT was established by the present authors in [13, 14].
In none of these works, oscillatory contributions could be obtained (note however
courageous forays by Keating [16] and Bogomolny and Keating [17]), due to the fact that
Gutzwiller’s formula for the level density is divergent. To enforce convergence, one needs to
allow for complex energies with imaginary parts large compared to the mean level spacing,
Im ✏ 1. Oscillatory terms proportional to e2i✏
then become exponentially small and cannot be
resolved within the conventional semiclassical approach.
In [18], we proposed a way around this difficulty that we here want to elaborate in detail.
The key idea is to represent the correlation function through derivatives of a generating function
involving spectral determinants. Two such representations are available and entail different
semiclassical periodic-orbit expansions. One of them recovers the non-oscillatory part of the
asymptotic expansion (3), essentially in equivalence to [12]–[14]; the other representation
breaks new ground by giving the oscillatory part of (3).
The full random-matrix result also, and in fact most naturally, arises within an alternative
semiclassical approximation scheme proposed by Berry and Keating in [19]. That scheme
To all orders, RMT terms is reproduced by considering full combinatorics of
self-encountering orbits (Müller et al, 2004)4
Figure 1. Bunch of 72 (pseudo-)orbits differing in two three-encounters and one
two-encounter (a pseudo-orbit is a set of several disjoined orbits; see below).Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
13. The many-body quantum chaos problem at “ = 1”
A lot of numerics accumulated to day, showing that integrable many body
systems, such as an interacting chain of spinless fermions:
H =
L−1
j=0
(−Jc†
j cj+1 − J c†
j cj+2 + h.c. + Vnj nj+1 + V nj nj+2), nj = c†
j cj .016 Advances in Physics Review
0
0.5
1
P
0
0.5
1
P
0 2 4
ω
0 2 4
ω
0
0.5
1
P
0 2 4
ω
0.1 1
J’=V’
0
0.5
1
ωmax
L=18
L=21
L=24
J’=V’=0.00 J’=V’=0.02 J’=V’=0.04 J’=V’=0.08
J’=V’=0.16 J’=V’=0.32 J’=V’=0.64
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(e) (f) (g) (h)
Figure 5. (a)–(g) Level spacing distribution of spinless fermions in a one-dimensional lattice with Hamiltonian
(40). They are the average over the level spacing distributions of all k-sectors (see text) with no additional
symmetries (see Ref. [69] for details). Results are reported for L = 24, N = L/3, J = V = 1 (unit of energy), and
J0 = V 0 (shown in the panels) vs the normalized level spacing !. The smooth continuous lines are the Poisson
and Wigner-Dyson (GOE) distributions. (h) Position of the maximum of P(!), denoted as !max, vs J0 = V 0, for
three lattice sizes. The horizontal dashed line is the GOE prediction. Adapted from Ref. [69].
[from: Rigol and Santos, 2010]
More data: Montamboux et al.1993, Prosen 1999, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2014,
Kollath et al. 2010, ...
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
14. My favourite toy model of many-body quantum chaos: Kicked Ising Chain
Prosen PTPS 2000, Prosen PRE 2002
H(t) =
L−1
j=0
Jσz
j σz
j+1 + (hxσx
j + hzσz
j )
m∈Z
δ(t − m)
UFloquet = T exp −i
1+
0+
dt H(t ) =
j
exp −i(hxσx
j + hzσz
j ) exp −iJσz
j σz
j+1
where [σα
j , σβ
k ] = 2iεαβγσγ
j δjk .
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
15. My favourite toy model of many-body quantum chaos: Kicked Ising Chain
Prosen PTPS 2000, Prosen PRE 2002
H(t) =
L−1
j=0
Jσz
j σz
j+1 + (hxσx
j + hzσz
j )
m∈Z
δ(t − m)
UFloquet = T exp −i
1+
0+
dt H(t ) =
j
exp −i(hxσx
j + hzσz
j ) exp −iJσz
j σz
j+1
where [σα
j , σβ
k ] = 2iεαβγσγ
j δjk .
The model is completely integrable in terms of Jordan-Wigner transformation if
hx = 0 (longitudinal field)
hz = 0 (transverse field)
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
16. My favourite toy model of many-body quantum chaos: Kicked Ising Chain
Prosen PTPS 2000, Prosen PRE 2002
H(t) =
L−1
j=0
Jσz
j σz
j+1 + (hxσx
j + hzσz
j )
m∈Z
δ(t − m)
UFloquet = T exp −i
1+
0+
dt H(t ) =
j
exp −i(hxσx
j + hzσz
j ) exp −iJσz
j σz
j+1
where [σα
j , σβ
k ] = 2iεαβγσγ
j δjk .
The model is completely integrable in terms of Jordan-Wigner transformation if
hx = 0 (longitudinal field)
hz = 0 (transverse field)
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
17. My favourite toy model of many-body quantum chaos: Kicked Ising Chain
Prosen PTPS 2000, Prosen PRE 2002
H(t) =
L−1
j=0
Jσz
j σz
j+1 + (hxσx
j + hzσz
j )
m∈Z
δ(t − m)
UFloquet = T exp −i
1+
0+
dt H(t ) =
j
exp −i(hxσx
j + hzσz
j ) exp −iJσz
j σz
j+1
where [σα
j , σβ
k ] = 2iεαβγσγ
j δjk .
The model is completely integrable in terms of Jordan-Wigner transformation if
hx = 0 (longitudinal field)
hz = 0 (transverse field)
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
18. My favourite toy model of many-body quantum chaos: Kicked Ising Chain
Prosen PTPS 2000, Prosen PRE 2002
H(t) =
L−1
j=0
Jσz
j σz
j+1 + (hxσx
j + hzσz
j )
m∈Z
δ(t − m)
UFloquet = T exp −i
1+
0+
dt H(t ) =
j
exp −i(hxσx
j + hzσz
j ) exp −iJσz
j σz
j+1
where [σα
j , σβ
k ] = 2iεαβγσγ
j δjk .
The model is completely integrable in terms of Jordan-Wigner transformation if
hx = 0 (longitudinal field)
hz = 0 (transverse field)
Time-evolution of local observables is quasi-exact, e.g. for computing
U−t
Floquetσα
j Ut
Floquet
only 2t + 1 sites in the range [j − t, j + t] are needed!.
Quantum cellular automaton in the sense of Schumacher and Werner (2004).
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
19. Quasi-energy level statistics of KI
[C. Pineda, TP, PRE 2007]
Fix J = 0.7, hx = 0.9, hz = 0.9, s.t. KI is (strongly) non-integrable.
Diagonalize
UFloquet|n = exp(−iϕn)|n .
For each conserved total momentum K quantum number, we find N ∼ 2L
/L
levels, normalized to mean level spacing as en = N
2π
ϕn, sn = en+1 − en.
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
20. Short-range statistics: Nearest neighbor level spacings
We plot cumulative level spacing distribution
W (s) =
s
0
dsP(s) = Prob{sn+1 − sn < s}.
0 1 2 3 4
-0.004
-0.002
0
0.002
0.004
0.006
0.008
0 1 2 3
0
0.01
0 1 2 3 4
-0.004
-0.002
0
0.002
0.004
0.006
0.008
ss
W−WWignerW−WWigner
The noisy curve shows the difference between the numerical data for 18 qubits,
averaged over the different momentum sectors, and the Wigner RMT surmise.
The smooth (red) curve is the difference between infinitely dimensional COE
solution and the Wigner surmise. In the inset we present a similar figure with
the results for each of quasi-moemtnum sector K.
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
21. Short and long range: Spectral form factor
Spectral form factor K2(τ) is for nonzero integer t defined as
K2(t/N) =
1
N
tr Ut 2
=
1
N n
e−iϕnt
2
.
0.25 0.5 0.75 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0.5 1 1.5
0.02
0.02
t/τH
K2
We show the behavior of the form factor for L = 18 qubits. We perform
averaging over short ranges of time (τH/25). The results for each of the
K-spaces are shown in colors. The average over the different spaces as well as
the theoretical COE(N) curve is plotted as a black and red curve, respectively.
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
22. Surprise!? Deviaton from universality at short times
Similarly as for semi-classical systems, we find notable statistically significant
deviations from universal COE/GOE predictions for short times of few kicks.
10 12 14 16 18 20
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
10 12 14 16 18 20
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
log10K2(1/τH)log10K2(1/τH)
LL
10 12 14 16 18 20
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
1
4
2
nσ
L
But there is no underlying classical structure! Dynamical explanation of this
phenomenon needed!
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
23. OPEN PROBLEM: Quantum chaos conjecture for clean many body systems
Consider a quantum lattice system with local interaction
H =
j,k
h(j, k)
where the interaction term h is fixed, i.e. has no "random parameters".
Prove that the spectral correlations of H, once one removes trivial symmetries
such as translation invariance, are described by RMT in the thermodynamic limit
(L → ∞), as soon as the model is non-integrable.
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
24. Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis
Ergodicity of individual (almost all!) many-body eigenstates
[Deutsch 1991, Srednicki 1994, TP 1999, Rigol et al 2008]
For a typical (say local) observable A
Ψn|A|Ψn ≈ a(En), a(E(β)) =
tr A exp(−βH)
tr exp(−βH)
, E(β) = −
∂
∂β
log tr exp(−βH).August 2, 2016 Advances in Physics Review
Figure 13. Eigenstate expectation values of the occupation of the zero momentum mode [(a)–(c)] and the kinetic
energy per site [(d)–(f)] of hard-core bosons as a function of the energy per site of each eigenstate in the entire
spectrum, that is, the results for all k-sectors are included. We report results for three system sizes (L = 18, 21,
and 24), a total number of particles N = L/3, and for two values of J0 = V 0 [J0 = V 0 = 0.16 in panels (b) and (e)
and J0 = V 0 = 0.64 in panels (c) and (f)] as one departs from the integrable point [J0 = V 0 = 0 in panels (a) and
(d)]. In all cases J = V = 1 (unit of energy). See also Ref. [157].
zero momentum mode occupation
[from: D’Alesio et al, Adv. Phys. 2016]
Top: A = leading Fourier mode occupation number (nonlocal),
Bottom: A = average kinetic energy (local).
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
25. From the spectrum to time evolution ...
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
26. Quantum ergodicity transition and the "order parameter"
Consider many-body Floquet dynamics for simplicity:
Temporal correlation of an extensive traceless observable A
(tr A = 0, tr A2
∝ L):
CA(t) = lim
L→∞
1
L2L
tr AU−t
AUt
Average correlator
DA = lim
T→∞
1
T
T−1
t=0
CA(t)
signals quantum ergodicity if DA = 0.
Quantum chaos regime in KI chain seems compatible with exponential
decay of correlations. For integrable, and weakly non-integrable cases,
though, we find saturation of temporal correlations D = 0.
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
27. Quantum ergodicity transition and the "order parameter"
Consider many-body Floquet dynamics for simplicity:
Temporal correlation of an extensive traceless observable A
(tr A = 0, tr A2
∝ L):
CA(t) = lim
L→∞
1
L2L
tr AU−t
AUt
Average correlator
DA = lim
T→∞
1
T
T−1
t=0
CA(t)
signals quantum ergodicity if DA = 0.
Quantum chaos regime in KI chain seems compatible with exponential
decay of correlations. For integrable, and weakly non-integrable cases,
though, we find saturation of temporal correlations D = 0.
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28. Quantum ergodicity transition and the "order parameter"
Consider many-body Floquet dynamics for simplicity:
Temporal correlation of an extensive traceless observable A
(tr A = 0, tr A2
∝ L):
CA(t) = lim
L→∞
1
L2L
tr AU−t
AUt
Average correlator
DA = lim
T→∞
1
T
T−1
t=0
CA(t)
signals quantum ergodicity if DA = 0.
Quantum chaos regime in KI chain seems compatible with exponential
decay of correlations. For integrable, and weakly non-integrable cases,
though, we find saturation of temporal correlations D = 0.
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30. Decay of time correlatons in KI chain
Three typical cases of parameters:
(a) J = 1, hx = 1.4, hz = 0.0
(completely integrable).
(b) J = 1, hx = 1.4, hz = 0.4
(intermediate).
(c) J = 1, hx = 1.4, hz = 1.4
("quantum chaotic").
0.1
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
|<M(t)M>|/L
t
10
-2
10-3
(c)
L=20
L=16
L=12
0.25exp(-t/6)
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
<M(t)M>/L
(b)
DM/L=0.293
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
<M(t)M>/L
(a)
DM/L=0.485
|<M(t)M>-DM|/L
10-1
10-2
10-3
10 20 30 t
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31. Loschmidt echo and decay of fidelity
Decay of correlations is closely related to
fidelity decay F(t) = U−t
Ut
δ(t) due to
perturbed evolution Uδ = U exp(−iδA)
(Prosen PRE 2002) e.g. in a linear re-
sponse approximation:
F(t) = 1 −
δ2
2
t
t ,t =1
C(t − t )
(a) J = 1, hx = 1.4, hz = 0.0
(completely integrable).
(b) J = 1, hx = 1.4, hz = 0.4
(intermediate).
(c) J = 1, hx = 1.4, hz = 1.4
("quantum chaotic").
0.1
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
|F(t)|
t
10
-2
10
-3
10
-4
δ’=0.04
δ’=0.02 δ’=0.01
(c)
L=20
L=16
L=12
theory
0.1
|F(t)|
10-2
10
-3
δ’=0.01
δ’=0.005
δ’=0.0025
(b)
0.1
|F(t)|
10
-2
10
-3
δ’=0.01 δ’=0.005
δ’=0.0025
(a)
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32. Quantum Ruelle-Policot-like resonances
TP, J. Phys. A 35, L737 (2002)
Transfer matrix approach to exponential decay of correlation:
Truncated quantum Perron-Frobenius map and Ruelle-like resonances.
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33. Quantum Ruelle-Policot-like resonances
TP, J. Phys. A 35, L737 (2002)
Transfer matrix approach to exponential decay of correlation:
Truncated quantum Perron-Frobenius map and Ruelle-like resonances.
We construct a matrix representation of the following dynamical Heisenberg
map
ˆTA = [U†
AU]r
truncated with respect to the following basis of translationally invariant
extensive observables
Z(s0s1...sr−1) =
∞
j=−∞
σs0
j σs1
j+1 · · · σ
sr−1
j+r−1
and inner product
(A|B) = lim
L→∞
1
L2L
tr A†
B, A =
s
as Zs ⇒ (A|A) =
s
|as |2
< ∞.
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35. Nonequilibrium quantum transport problem in one-dimension
Canonical markovian master equation for the many-body density matrix:
The Lindblad (L-GKS) equation:
dρ
dt
= ˆLρ := −i[H, ρ] +
µ
2LµρL†
µ − {L†
µLµ, ρ} .
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36. Nonequilibrium quantum transport problem in one-dimension
Canonical markovian master equation for the many-body density matrix:
The Lindblad (L-GKS) equation:
dρ
dt
= ˆLρ := −i[H, ρ] +
µ
2LµρL†
µ − {L†
µLµ, ρ} .
Bulk: Fully coherent, local interactions,e.g. H = n−1
x=1 hx,x+1.
Boundaries: Fully incoherent, ultra-local dissipation,
jump operators Lµ supported near boundaries x = 1 or x = n.
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37. Nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) density matrix
ˆLρNESS = 0.
Integrability vs. non-integrability of NESS [TP, J. Phys. A48, 373001(2015)]
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38. Nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) density matrix
ˆLρNESS = 0.
Integrability vs. non-integrability of NESS [TP, J. Phys. A48, 373001(2015)]
Spectral correlations of Heff = − log ρNESS signal (non)integrability of NESS!
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39. Nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) density matrix
ˆLρNESS = 0.
Integrability vs. non-integrability of NESS [TP, J. Phys. A48, 373001(2015)]
Spectral correlations of Heff = − log ρNESS signal (non)integrability of NESS!
a current, as is the case in all NESSs studied here, we
expect the LSD to display GUE statistics and not the one
for the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) irrespective
of the symmetry class to which the Hamiltonian belongs
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
p(s)
s=λj+1-λj
(b) staggered XXZ chain
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
p(s)
(a) XXZ chain, ∆=0.5
FIG. 2 (color online). LSD for NESSs of nonsolvable systems.
(a) XXZ chain with Á ¼ 0:5 (À ¼ 1, ¼ 0:2, ¼ 0:3).
(b) XXZ chain with Á ¼ 0:5 in a staggered field ( ¼ 0:1,
¼ 0, À ¼ 1). Both cases are for n ¼ 14 in the sector with
Z ¼ 7. Full black curve is the Wigner surmise for the GUE; the
dotted blue curve is for the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble.
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
p(s)
s=λj+1-λj
(c)XXX chain, µ=1
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
p(s)
(b)XX chain with dephasing
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
p(s)
(a)XX chain
FIG. 1 (color online). LSD for NESSs of solvable nonequilib-
rium systems. (a) XX chain (n ¼ 16, Z ¼ 10). (b) XX chain with
dephasing of strength
¼ 1 (n ¼ 14, Z ¼ 7). (c) XXX chain
with maximal driving ¼ 1 (n ¼ 20, Z ¼ 5, Á ¼ 1). Cases (a)
and (b) are for À ¼ 1, ¼ 0:2, ¼ 0:3, while (c) is for À ¼
0:1, ¼ 1, ¼ 0.
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0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
p(s)
s=λj+1-λj
(b) staggered XXZ chain
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
p(s)
(a) XXZ chain, ∆=0.5
FIG. 2 (color online). LSD for NESSs of nonsolvable systems.
(a) XXZ chain with Á ¼ 0:5 (À ¼ 1, ¼ 0:2, ¼ 0:3).
(b) XXZ chain with Á ¼ 0:5 in a staggered field ( ¼ 0:1,
¼ 0, À ¼ 1). Both cases are for n ¼ 14 in the sector with
Z ¼ 7. Full black curve is the Wigner surmise for the GUE; the
dotted blue curve is for the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble.
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
p(s)
s=λj+1-λj
(c)XXX chain, µ=1
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
p(s)
(b)XX chain with dephasing
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
p(s)
(a)XX chain
1 (color online). LSD for NESSs of solvable nonequilib-
systems. (a) XX chain (n ¼ 16, Z ¼ 10). (b) XX chain with
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40. Redefining quantum chaos? Out-of-time-order correlations.
CAB (t) = [A(t), B]2
− [A(t), B] 2
.
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41. Redefining quantum chaos? Out-of-time-order correlations.
CAB (t) = [A(t), B]2
− [A(t), B] 2
.
Key OTOC term: A(t)BA(t)B .
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42. Redefining quantum chaos? Out-of-time-order correlations.
CAB (t) = [A(t), B]2
− [A(t), B] 2
.
Key OTOC term: A(t)BA(t)B .
Studied by Larkin and Ovchinikov (1969) in the context of semiclassical theory
of superconductivity. In the semiclassical limit → 0,
i
[A(t), B] → {Acl(t), Bcl}PB,
hence
CAB (t) ∼ eλLyapunovt
, t tEhrenfest ∼
log(1/ )
λLyapunov
.
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43. Redefining quantum chaos? Out-of-time-order correlations.
CAB (t) = [A(t), B]2
− [A(t), B] 2
.
Key OTOC term: A(t)BA(t)B .
Studied by Larkin and Ovchinikov (1969) in the context of semiclassical theory
of superconductivity. In the semiclassical limit → 0,
i
[A(t), B] → {Acl(t), Bcl}PB,
hence
CAB (t) ∼ eλLyapunovt
, t tEhrenfest ∼
log(1/ )
λLyapunov
.
OTOC has been picked up as a definition of Quantum chaos in many-body
systems and QFT by the community working on AdS/CFT holography
[Kitaev 2014, Maldacena, Shenker and Stanford 2016 + cca.100 papers...]
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44. Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and bound on chaos
H =
N
i,j,k,l=1
ξijkl γi γj γk γl , {γj , γk } = δj,k .
CAB (t) ∼
1
N
eλLt
where
λL ≤
2π
β
.
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45. Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and bound on chaos
H =
N
i,j,k,l=1
ξijkl γi γj γk γl , {γj , γk } = δj,k .
CAB (t) ∼
1
N
eλLt
where
λL ≤
2π
β
.
However, for systems with local interactions H = x hx,x+1 and bounded local
operators A = u(x), B = v(y)
CAB (t) ≤ 4 u 2
v 2
min(1, eλ(t−|x−y|/v)
)
which is just a slightly nontrivial restatement of well-known Lieb-Robinson
bound (causality).
Information propagation in isolated quantum systems
David J. Luitz1, 2
and Yevgeny Bar Lev3
1
Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
2
Department of Physics, T42, Technische Universit¨at M¨unchen,
James-Franck-Straße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany⇤
3
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
3000 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, USA†
nglement growth and out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) are used to assess the propaga-
nformation in isolated quantum systems. In this work, using large scale exact time-evolution
w that for weakly disordered nonintegrable systems information propagates behind a ballisti-
oving front, and the entanglement entropy growths linearly in time. For stronger disorder the
of the information front is algebraic and sub-ballistic and is characterized by an exponent
epends on the strength of the disorder, similarly to the sublinear growth of the entanglement
. We show that the dynamical exponent associated with the information front coincides with
onent of the growth of the entanglement entropy for both weak and strong disorder. We also
trate that the temporal dependence of the OTOC is characterized by a fast nonexponential
followed by a slow saturation after the passage of the information front. Finally,we discuss
lications of this behavioral change on the growth of the entanglement entropy.
While the speed of light is the ab-
of information propagation in both
um relativistic systems, surprisingly a
s a similar role exists also for short-
onrelativistic quantum systems. This
the Lieb-Robinson velocity, bounds
rrelations in the system and implies
bout local initial excitations propa-
al “light-cone”, similarly to the light-
n the theory of special relativity [1].
ight-cone can be obtained from the
15 9 3 3 9
i
0
2
4
6
8
10
t
W = 0.3
15 9 3 3 9
i
W = 1.8 0.00
0.03
0.06
0.09
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46. Density of OTOC and Weak Quantum Chaos
[Kukuljan, Grozdanov and TP, PRB 2017, arXiv:1701.09147]
C(t) =
1
N
( [U(t), V ]2
− [U(t), V ] 2
), U =
N
x=1
u(x), V =
N
x=1
v(x).
dOTOC satisfies a general polynomial bound (C(t) ct3d
in d dim.).
It grows linearly C(t) ∝ t for non-integrable kicked Ising dynamics
(Weak quantum chaos)
It saturates for integrable transverse field Ising dynamics.
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47. Density of OTOC and Weak Quantum Chaos
[Kukuljan, Grozdanov and TP, PRB 2017, arXiv:1701.09147]
C(t) =
1
N
( [U(t), V ]2
− [U(t), V ] 2
), U =
N
x=1
u(x), V =
N
x=1
v(x).
dOTOC satisfies a general polynomial bound (C(t) ct3d
in d dim.).
It grows linearly C(t) ∝ t for non-integrable kicked Ising dynamics
(Weak quantum chaos)
It saturates for integrable transverse field Ising dynamics.
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48. Density of OTOC and Weak Quantum Chaos
[Kukuljan, Grozdanov and TP, PRB 2017, arXiv:1701.09147]
C(t) =
1
N
( [U(t), V ]2
− [U(t), V ] 2
), U =
N
x=1
u(x), V =
N
x=1
v(x).
dOTOC satisfies a general polynomial bound (C(t) ct3d
in d dim.).
It grows linearly C(t) ∝ t for non-integrable kicked Ising dynamics
(Weak quantum chaos)
It saturates for integrable transverse field Ising dynamics.
4
FIG. 1. Density of the OTOC of extensive observables for one-dimensional KI model (7) with periodic boundary conditions:
⇡
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49. Density of OTOC and Weak Quantum Chaos
[Kukuljan, Grozdanov and TP, PRB 2017, arXiv:1701.09147]
C(t) =
1
N
( [U(t), V ]2
− [U(t), V ] 2
), U =
N
x=1
u(x), V =
N
x=1
v(x).
dOTOC satisfies a general polynomial bound (C(t) ct3d
in d dim.).
It grows linearly C(t) ∝ t for non-integrable kicked Ising dynamics
(Weak quantum chaos)
It saturates for integrable transverse field Ising dynamics.
4
FIG. 1. Density of the OTOC of extensive observables for one-dimensional KI model (7) with periodic boundary conditions:
⇡
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50. Conclusions
Urgent open questions:
The mechanism for random-matrix-behaviour of simple interacting
quantum many-body systems without disorder?
The nature of ergodicity-breaking transitions of quantum many-body
systems is not understood. No corresponding KAM-like theory?
Is there a measure of dynamical complexity (like K-S entropy) for quantum
chaotic dynamics, which could discriminate the information ‘pumped’ from
the initial condition (many-body initial state) from dynamically generated
information (entropy)?
This work has been continuously supported by the Slovenian Research Agency
(ARRS), and, since 2016 by
Thanks to many collaborators on this and related endevours, especially to:
Marko Žnidarič, Giulio Casati, Carlos Pineda, Thomas Seligman, Enej Ilievski,
. . .
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51. Conclusions
Urgent open questions:
The mechanism for random-matrix-behaviour of simple interacting
quantum many-body systems without disorder?
The nature of ergodicity-breaking transitions of quantum many-body
systems is not understood. No corresponding KAM-like theory?
Is there a measure of dynamical complexity (like K-S entropy) for quantum
chaotic dynamics, which could discriminate the information ‘pumped’ from
the initial condition (many-body initial state) from dynamically generated
information (entropy)?
This work has been continuously supported by the Slovenian Research Agency
(ARRS), and, since 2016 by
Thanks to many collaborators on this and related endevours, especially to:
Marko Žnidarič, Giulio Casati, Carlos Pineda, Thomas Seligman, Enej Ilievski,
. . .
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
52. Conclusions
Urgent open questions:
The mechanism for random-matrix-behaviour of simple interacting
quantum many-body systems without disorder?
The nature of ergodicity-breaking transitions of quantum many-body
systems is not understood. No corresponding KAM-like theory?
Is there a measure of dynamical complexity (like K-S entropy) for quantum
chaotic dynamics, which could discriminate the information ‘pumped’ from
the initial condition (many-body initial state) from dynamically generated
information (entropy)?
This work has been continuously supported by the Slovenian Research Agency
(ARRS), and, since 2016 by
Thanks to many collaborators on this and related endevours, especially to:
Marko Žnidarič, Giulio Casati, Carlos Pineda, Thomas Seligman, Enej Ilievski,
. . .
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems
53. Conclusions
Urgent open questions:
The mechanism for random-matrix-behaviour of simple interacting
quantum many-body systems without disorder?
The nature of ergodicity-breaking transitions of quantum many-body
systems is not understood. No corresponding KAM-like theory?
Is there a measure of dynamical complexity (like K-S entropy) for quantum
chaotic dynamics, which could discriminate the information ‘pumped’ from
the initial condition (many-body initial state) from dynamically generated
information (entropy)?
This work has been continuously supported by the Slovenian Research Agency
(ARRS), and, since 2016 by
Thanks to many collaborators on this and related endevours, especially to:
Marko Žnidarič, Giulio Casati, Carlos Pineda, Thomas Seligman, Enej Ilievski,
. . .
Tomaž Prosen Quantum chaos in clean many-body systems