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Distance to integrability and complexity
Abstract
We consider nearest-neighbour interactions on spin-1/2 chains. We find the full set of integrable models of this form and apply a numerical algorithm to determine the "closest" integrable model for a given Hamiltonian. This allows us to define a model-independent distance to integrability. We show that standard measures of chaos interpolate between integrable and chaotic values with increasing values of this distance. However, there is a large variation across models and the distance to integrability provides additional information not directly provided by these diagnostics.
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BibTeX
@misc{casey2026distance,
title = {{Distance to integrability and complexity}},
author = {Sean Casey and Marius de Leeuw and Tristan McLoughlin and Sergiy Zhuk},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.00233},
eprint = {2611.00233},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00233},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Distance to integrability and complexity
AU - Sean Casey
AU - Marius de Leeuw
AU - Tristan McLoughlin
AU - Sergiy Zhuk
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.00233
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00233
AB - We consider nearest-neighbour interactions on spin-1/2 chains. We find the full set of integrable models of this form and apply a numerical algorithm to determine the "closest" integrable model for a given Hamiltonian. This allows us to define a model-independent distance to integrability. We show that standard measures of chaos interpolate between integrable and chaotic values with increasing values of this distance. However, there is a large variation across models and the distance to integrability provides additional information not directly provided by these diagnostics.
ER -