Spectral form factor as an OTOC averaged over the Heisenberg group

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2019.06.025MaRDI QIDQ2273786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jia-Hui Huang, Chen-Te Ma, Robert De Mello Koch, Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

Publication date 18 September 2019

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10981

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupspectral form factorlate-time limitout-of-time ordered correlation function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Abstract: We prove that in bosonic quantum mechanics the two-point spectral form factor can be obtained as an average of the two-point out-of-time ordered correlation function, with the average taken over the Heisenberg group. In quantum field theory, there is an analogous result with the average taken over the tensor product of many copies of the Heisenberg group, one copy for each field mode. The resulting formula is expressed as a path integral over two fields, providing a promising approach to the computation of the spectral form factor. We develop the formula that we have obtained using a coherent state description from the JC model and also in the context of the large-$N$ limit of CFT and Yang-Mills theory from the large-$N$ matrix quantum mechanics.

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