Quantum-Classical Correspondence and chaotic mobility edge for Fast Scramblers

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Abstract

We introduce a semiclassical version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model for which chaos can be understood as arising from diverging geodesics on a SO(N) manifold equipped with a random metric with locally negative curvature. The global Lyapunov exponent of the classical model is found to grow linearly with temperature, with a slope that can exceed the quantum bound. The bound on chaos is understood as a reversed ``chaotic mobility edge'' in the classical Lyapunov spectrum, separating the lower part of the spectrum for which a classical chaos picture is valid from the higher part of the spectrum for which quantum interference effects are strong enough to destroy chaos. The mobility edge corresponds to a curvature radius of the order of the de Broglie wavelength.

*We acknowledge support of the ERC synergy grant UQUAM (EA) and the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (TS)

Presenters

  • Ehud Altman

    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley

Authors

  • Ehud Altman

    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley
  • Thomas Scaffidi

    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley
    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • University of Oxford