Title | Exponential Ramp in the Quadratic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2020 |
Authors | M. Winer, S-K. Jian, and B. Swingle |
Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. |
Volume | 125 |
Date Published | dec |
ISSN | 0031-9007 |
Abstract | A long period of linear growth in the spectral form factor provides a universal diagnostic of quantum chaos at intermediate times. By contrast, the behavior of the spectral form factor in disordered integrable many-body models is not well understood. Here we study the two-body Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and show that the spectral form factor features an exponential ramp, in sharp contrast to the linear ramp in chaotic models. We find a novel mechanism for this exponential ramp in terms of a high-dimensional manifold of saddle points in the path integral formulation of the spectral form factor. This manifold arises because the theory enjoys a large symmetry group. With finite nonintegrable interaction strength, these delicate symmetries reduce to a relative time translation, causing the exponential ramp to give way to a linear ramp. |
DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.250602 |