Abstract: (APS)
The spectral form factor (SFF), characterizing statistics of energy eigenvalues, is a key diagnostic of many-body quantum chaos. In addition, partial spectral form factors (PSFFs) can be defined which refer to subsystems of the many-body system. They provide unique insights into energy eigenstate statistics of many-body systems, as we show in an analysis on the basis of random matrix theory and of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. We propose a protocol that allows the measurement of the SFF and PSFFs in quantum many-body spin models, within the framework of randomized measurements. Aimed to probe dynamical properties of quantum many-body systems, our scheme employs statistical correlations of local random operations which are applied at different times in a single experiment. Our protocol provides a unified test bed to probe many-body quantum chaotic behavior, thermalization, and many-body localization in closed quantum systems which we illustrate with numerical simulations for Hamiltonian and Floquet many-body spin systems.
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  • 16+14 pages, 14 figures. The presentation throughout the paper is improved, without any change in the core content and results. New figure and appendix added. Matches with the published version
  • matrix model: random
  • spin: model
  • many-body problem
  • chaos
  • spectral
  • statistics
  • form factor
  • localization
  • Hamiltonian
  • energy eigenstate