Chaos due to symmetry-breaking in deformed Poisson ensemble

Abstract

The competition between strength and correlation of coupling terms in a Hamiltonian defines numerous phenomenological models exhibiting spectral properties interpolating between those of Poisson (integrable) and Wigner-Dyson (chaotic) ensembles. It is important to understand how the off-diagonal terms of a Hamiltonian evolve as one or more symmetries of an integrable system are explicitly broken. We introduce a deformed Poisson ensemble to demonstrate an exact mapping of the coupling terms to the underlying symmetries of a Hamiltonian. From the maximum entropy principle we predict a chaotic limit which is numerically verified from the spectral properties and the survival probability calculations.

17 pages, 5 figures

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