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Probing quantum chaos

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Giant Rydberg excitons reveal signatures of quantum chaotic behaviour in the presence of time-reversal symmetry breaking enforced by the background solid-state lattice, and they provide a new mesoscopic platform for fundamental studies of quantum chaos.

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Figure 1: Complex level structure of a giant Rydberg exciton in a magnetic field.
Figure 2: Nearest-neighbour level spacing distribution in the regular and chaotic regions, compared with the predictions for the Poissonian ensemble (black), GOE (blue) and GUE (red curve).

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  1. Elena A. Ostrovskaya is at the Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia,

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  2. Franco Nori is in the Quantum Condensed Matter Research Group, Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 3510198, Japan,

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Ostrovskaya, E., Nori, F. Probing quantum chaos. Nature Mater 15, 702–703 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4670

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