Discriminating chaotic and integrable regimes in quenched field Floquet system using saturation of Out-of-time-order correlation
Abstract: The dynamic region of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) is a valuable discriminator of chaos in classical and semiclassical systems, as it captures the characteristic exponential growth. However, in spin systems, it does not reliably quantify chaos, exhibiting similar behavior in both integrable and chaotic systems. Instead, we leverage the saturation behavior of OTOCs as a means to differentiate between chaotic and integrable regimes. We use integrable and nonintegrable quenched field Floquet systems to describe this discriminator. In the integrable system, the saturation region of OTOCs exhibits oscillatory behavior, whereas, in the chaotic system, it shows exact saturation i.e., system gets thermalized. To gain a clearer understanding of the oscillations, we calculate the inverse participation ratio (IPR) for the normalized Fourier spectrum of OTOC. In order to further substantiate our findings, we propose the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution (NNSD) of time-dependent unitary operators. This distribution effectively differentiates chaotic and regular regions, corroborating the outcomes derived from the saturation behavior of OTOC.
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