Prepared for submission to JHEP

Chaos on the hypercube

arXiv:2005.13017v1 [hep-th] 26 May 2020

Yiyang Jiaa and Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschota

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA

E-mail: yiyang.jia@stonybrook.edu, jacobus.verbaarschot@stonybrook.edu

Abstract: We analyze the spectral properties of a d-dimensional HyperCubic (HC) lattice

model originally introduced by Parisi. The U(1) gauge links of this model give rise to a mag-
netic flux of constant magnitude but random orientation through the faces of the hypercube.
The HC model, which also can be written as a model of 2d interacting Majorana fermions,
has a spectral flow that is reminiscent of Maldacena-Qi (MQ) model, and its spectrum at
= 0, actually coincides with the coupling term of the MQ model. As was already shown
by Parisi, at leading order in 1/d , the spectral density of this model is given by the density
function of the Q-Hermite polynomials, which is also the spectral density of the double-scaled
Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Parisi demonstrated this by mapping the moments of the HC
model to Q-weighted sums on chord diagrams. We point out that the subleading moments
of the HC model can also be mapped to weighted sums on chord diagrams, in a manner
that descends from the leading moments. The HC model has a magnetic inversion symmetry
that depends on both the magnitude and the orientation of the magnetic flux through the
faces of the hypercube. The spectrum for fixed quantum number of this symmetry exhibits
a transition from regular spectra at = 0 to chaotic spectra with spectral statistics given by
the Gaussian Unitary Ensembles (GUE) for larger values of . For small magnetic flux, the
ground state is gapped and is close to a Thermofield Double (TFD) state.