Title: Semiclassical Prediction of Large Spectral Fluctuations in Interacting Kicked Spin Chains,
Abstract: While plenty of results have been obtained for single-particle quantum
systems with chaotic dynamics through a semiclassical theory, much less is
known about quantum chaos in the many-body setting. We contribute to recent
efforts to make a semiclassical analysis of many-body systems feasible. This is
nontrivial due to both the enormous density of states and the exponential
proliferation of periodic orbits with the number of particles. As a model
system we study kicked interacting spin chains employing semiclassical methods
supplemented by a newly developed duality approach. We show that for this model
the line between integrability and chaos becomes blurred. Due to the
interaction structure the system features (non-isolated) manifolds of periodic
orbits possessing highly correlated, collective dynamics. As with the invariant
tori in integrable systems, their presence lead to significantly enhanced
spectral fluctuations, which by order of magnitude lie in-between integrable
and chaotic cases.