Controlling many-body quantum chaos in a dissipative optical cavity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04455v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:40:50 GMT
• Title: Controlling many-body quantum chaos in a dissipative optical cavity
• Abstract summary: We study the driven-dissipative dynamics of a typical cavity QED setting including controllable disorder and long-range interactions.<n>We find that the two dissipation sources have qualitatively different structures.
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• Abstract: Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) with ultracold fermions provides a promising platform for realizing many-body quantum chaos through disordered, photon-mediated long-range interactions. Such setups are inherently open and are therefore subject to dissipation arising from cavity photon loss and atomic spontaneous emission. In this article, we study the driven-dissipative dynamics of a typical cavity QED setting including controllable disorder and long-range interactions. We find that the two dissipation sources have qualitatively different structures. Cavity loss reduces to a single dephasing channel, whereas spontaneous emission in the experimentally relevant regime generates a collection of nonlocal dephasing channels. Cavity-induced dephasing preserves signatures distinguishing integrable from chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics in observables that depend linearly on the density matrix, while spontaneous emission suppresses these signatures. By contrast, quantities that probe the structure of the many-body state, such as the entanglement entropy, are strongly affected by both dissipation mechanisms. Assuming experimentally realistic parameters, we derive quantitative constraints for the observation and control of many-body quantum chaos in cavity-QED platforms.

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