Probing weak chaos in $\mathcal N=4$ super Yang-Mills and long-range spin chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18351v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:00:09 GMT
• Title: Probing weak chaos in $\mathcal N=4$ super Yang-Mills and long-range spin chains
• Abstract summary: We study quantum chaos in finite-loop truncations of the planar dilatation operator in the $mathfraksu(2)$ sector of $mathcal N=4$ super Yang-Mills.
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• Abstract: We study signatures of quantum chaos in finite-loop truncations of the planar dilatation operator in the $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ sector of $\mathcal N=4$ super Yang-Mills and its $β$-deformation. These truncations define holographically motivated long-range deformations of the nearest-neighbour XXX spin chain. At one-loop the model is integrable, while the all-loop planar theory is expected to again be integrable. Finite-loop truncations therefore provide a natural setting for investigating how chaotic behaviour emerges between these two integrable limits. We analyse this question using spectral statistics, eigenvector diagnostics and spread complexity. We find that the two- and four-loop truncations develop GOE-like level statistics at sufficiently large coupling but with features characteristic of weak integrability breaking. The integrability breaking at four-loops is weaker than at two-loops and the critical coupling at which chaos occurs is larger, at least for long spin chains. The three-loop truncation does not show the same onset of chaos in the range studied. Eigenvector diagnostics show that the corresponding eigenstates remain less random than GOE vectors, indicating weak ergodicity and multifractality. Finally, we can identify signatures of the eigenvalue and eigenvector chaos in the Krylov-space data. Namely, we demonstrate a correlation of the level spacing statistics with the peak of spread complexity and disorder on the Krylov chain. The delocalisation of the initial state in the Hamiltonian eigenbasis is shown to strongly affect the saturation of complexity. Our results suggest that finite-loop dilatation operators are not generic long-range spin chain Hamiltonians, but already display patterns consistent with the restoration of integrability in the all-loop planar theory.

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