Thermofield dynamics: quantum chaos versus decoherence

Xu, Zhenyu (author), Chenu, Aurelia (author), Prosen, Tomaž (author), Campo, Adolfo del (author)

Quantum chaos imposes universal spectral signatures that govern the thermofield dynamics of a many-body system in isolation. The fidelity between the initial and time-evolving thermofield double states exhibits as a function of time a decay, dip, ramp, and plateau. Sources of decoherence give rise to a nonunitary evolution and result in information loss. Energy dephasing gradually suppresses quantum noise fluctuations and the dip associated with spectral correlations. Decoherence further delays the appearance of the dip and shortens the span of the linear ramp associated with chaotic behavior. The interplay between signatures of quantum chaos and information loss is determined by the competition among the decoherence, dip, and plateau characteristic times, as demonstrated in the stochastic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model.

• Language: English
• Keywords: quantum physics, quantum chaos
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 064309-1-064309-11
• Numbering: Vol. 103, iss. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-130346
• UDC: 530.145
• ISSN on article: 2469-9950
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.064309
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76226307
• Publication date in RUL: 14.09.2021

XU, Zhenyu, CHENU, Aurelia, PROSEN, Tomaž and CAMPO, Adolfo del, 2021, Thermofield dynamics: quantum chaos versus decoherence. Physical review [online]. 2021. Vol. 103, no. 6, p. 064309-1- 064309–11. [Accessed 23 April 2025]. DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.064309. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=130346

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Physical review
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 2469-9950
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2997348

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kvantna fizika, kvantni kaos

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 694544
• Name: Open Many-body Non-Equilibrium Systems
• Acronym: OMNES

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P1-0402
• Name: Matematična fizika