Universal Dephasing Mechanism of Many-Body Quantum Chaos
arXiv:2110.02976 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L012037
Abstract
Ergodicity is a fundamental principle of statistical mechanics underlying the behavior of generic quantum many-body systems. However, how this universal many-body quantum chaotic regime emerges due to interactions remains largely a puzzle. This paper demonstrates using both heuristic arguments and a microscopic calculation that a dephasing mechanism, similar to Altshuler-Aronov-Khmelnitskii dephasing in the theory of localization, underlies this transition to chaos. We focus on the behavior of the spectral form factor (SFF) as a function of "time", t, which characterizes level correlations in the many-body spectrum. The SFF can be expressed as a sum over periodic classical orbits and its behavior hinges on the interference of trajectories related to each other by a time translation. In the absence of interactions, time-translation symmetry is present for each individual particle, which leads to a fast exponential growth of the SFF and correspondingly loss of correlations between many-body levels. Interactions lead to dephasing, which disrupts interference, and breaks the massive time-translation symmetry down to a global time-translation/energy conservation. This in turn gives rise to the hallmark linear-in- ramp in the SFF reflecting Wigner-Dyson level repulsion. This general picture is supported by a microscopic analysis of an interacting many-body model. Specifically, we study the complex $\mbox{SYK}_2+\mbox{SYK}_2^2$ model, which allows to tune between an integrable and chaotic regime. It is shown that the dephasing mass vanishes in the former case, which maps to the non-interacting $\mbox{SYK}_2$ model via a time reparameterization. In contrast, the chaotic regime gives rise to dephasing, which suppresses the exponential ramp of the non-interacting theory and induces correlations between many-body levels.
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