Many-Body Chaos in the Quantum Lifshitz Model

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Abstract

We compute the parameters characterizing many-body quantum chaos in the 2+1D Quantum Lifshitz model with N flavors, specifically the Lyapunov exponent and butterfly velocity as a function of temperature, diffusion constant, and interaction strength. The quartic term added to break integrability gives logarithmic (in temperature) corrections to the naive expression for the Lyapunov exponent. Despite z=2 scaling, an effective temperature-dependent velocity is generated and chaos spreads ballistically.

*Moore Foundation

Presenters

  • Eugeniu Plamadeala

    • Physics, Univ of Illinois - Urbana

Authors

  • Eugeniu Plamadeala

    • Physics, Univ of Illinois - Urbana
  • Eduardo Fradkin

    • Physics, University of Illinois
    • Physics, Univ of Illinois - Urbana
    • Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign