Quantum Signature of Chaos and Thermalization in Kicked Dicke Model

TL;DR

This paper investigates how chaos influences thermalization in the quantum kicked Dicke model by analyzing phase space dynamics, spectral properties, and thermodynamics, revealing a transition from regular to chaotic behavior and emergent thermalization.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis connecting chaos and thermalization in the kicked Dicke model through classical and quantum spectral studies and thermodynamic behavior.

Findings

Crossover from regular to chaotic motion with increasing kicking strength

Spectral analysis shows random matrix theory correspondence in chaos regime

System exhibits thermalization with an emergent effective temperature in the thermodynamic limit

Abstract

We study the quantum dynamics of the kicked Dicke model(KDM) in terms of the Floquet operator and analyze the connection between the chaos and thermalization in this context. The Hamiltonian map is constructed by taking the classical limit of the Heisenberg equation of motion suitably to study the corresponding phase space dynamics which shows a crossover from regular to chaotic motion by tuning the kicking strength. The fixed point analysis and calculation of the Lyapunov exponent(LE) provides us a complete picture of the onset of chaos in phase space dynamics. We carry out the spectral analysis of the Floquet operator which include the calculation of quasienergy spacing distribution, structural entropy and show the correspondence to the random matrix theory in the chaotic regime. Finally, we analyze the thermodynamics and statistical properties of the bosonic sector as well as the spin sector and discuss how such periodically kicked system relaxes to a thermalized state in accordance with the laws of statistical mechanics. We introduce the notion of an effective temperature and show that a microcanonical picture is emerging out in the thermodynamic limit indicating the thermalization occurring in such system.