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Quantum chaos in the Brownian SYK model with large finite N: OTOCs and tripartite information

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany); Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Munchen (Germany); OSTI
  2. Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany); Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Munchen (Germany)
  3. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Inst. of Theoretical Physics (ITP); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Google, Mountain View, CA (United States)
We consider the Brownian SYK model of N interacting Majorana fermions, with random couplings that are taken to vary independently at each time. We study the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) of arbitrary observables and the Rényi-2 tripartite information of the unitary evolution operator, which were proposed as diagnostic tools for quantum chaos and scrambling, respectively. We show that their averaged dynamics can be studied as a quench problem at imaginary times in a model of N qudits, where the Hamiltonian displays site-permutational symmetry. By exploiting a description in terms of bosonic collective modes, we show that for the quantities of interest the dynamics takes place in a subspace of the effective Hilbert space whose dimension grows either linearly or quadratically with N, allowing us to perform numerically exact calculations up to N = 106 . We analyze in detail the interesting features of the OTOCs, including their dependence on the chosen observables, and of the tripartite information. We observe explicitly the emergence of a scrambling time t* ~ ln N controlling the onset of both chaotic and scrambling behavior, after which we characterize the exponential decay of the quantities of interest to the corresponding Haar scrambled values.
Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0019380
OSTI ID:
1803746
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 2019; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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