Symmetry Classification and Universality in Non-Hermitian Many-Body Quantum Chaos by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model
Abstract
Spectral correlations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. For Hermitian Hamiltonians, quantum chaotic motion is related to random matrix theory spectral correlations. Based on recent progress in the application of spectral analysis to non-Hermitian quantum systems, we show that local level statistics, which probe the dynamics around the Heisenberg time, of a non-Hermitian q -body Sachdev-Ye-Kitev (nHSYK) model with N Majorana fermions, and its chiral and complex-fermion extensions, are also well described by random matrix theory for q > 2, while for q = 2, they are given by the equivalent of Poisson statistics. For that comparison, we combine exact diagonalization numerical techniques with analytical results obtained for some of the random matrix spectral observables. Moreover, depending on q and N, we identify 19 out of the 38 non-Hermitian universality classes in the nHSYK model, including those corresponding to the tenfold way. In particular, we realize explicitly 14 out of the 15 universality classes corresponding to non-pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians that involve universal bulk correlations of classes AI† and AII†, beyond the Ginibre ensembles. These results provide strong evidence of striking universal features in nonunitary many-body quantum chaos, which in all cases can be captured bymore »
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García-García, Antonio M., Sá, Lucas, and Verbaarschot, Jacobus J. M. Symmetry Classification and Universality in Non-Hermitian Many-Body Quantum Chaos by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021040.
García-García, Antonio M., Sá, Lucas, & Verbaarschot, Jacobus J. M. Symmetry Classification and Universality in Non-Hermitian Many-Body Quantum Chaos by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021040
García-García, Antonio M., Sá, Lucas, and Verbaarschot, Jacobus J. M. Wed .
"Symmetry Classification and Universality in Non-Hermitian Many-Body Quantum Chaos by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021040.
@article{osti_1868389,
title = {Symmetry Classification and Universality in Non-Hermitian Many-Body Quantum Chaos by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model},
author = {García-García, Antonio M. and Sá, Lucas and Verbaarschot, Jacobus J. M.},
abstractNote = {Spectral correlations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. For Hermitian Hamiltonians, quantum chaotic motion is related to random matrix theory spectral correlations. Based on recent progress in the application of spectral analysis to non-Hermitian quantum systems, we show that local level statistics, which probe the dynamics around the Heisenberg time, of a non-Hermitian q -body Sachdev-Ye-Kitev (nHSYK) model with N Majorana fermions, and its chiral and complex-fermion extensions, are also well described by random matrix theory for q > 2, while for q = 2, they are given by the equivalent of Poisson statistics. For that comparison, we combine exact diagonalization numerical techniques with analytical results obtained for some of the random matrix spectral observables. Moreover, depending on q and N, we identify 19 out of the 38 non-Hermitian universality classes in the nHSYK model, including those corresponding to the tenfold way. In particular, we realize explicitly 14 out of the 15 universality classes corresponding to non-pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians that involve universal bulk correlations of classes AI† and AII†, beyond the Ginibre ensembles. These results provide strong evidence of striking universal features in nonunitary many-body quantum chaos, which in all cases can be captured by nHSYK models with q > 2.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021040},
journal = {Physical Review. X},
number = 2,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021040
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