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We study chaos in the classical limit of the matrix quantum mechanical system describing D0-brane dynamics. We determine a precise value of the largest Lyapunov exponent, and, with less precision, calculate the entire spectrum of Lyapunov exponents. We verify that these approach a smooth limit as N → ∞. We show that a classical analog of scrambling occurs with fast scrambling scaling, t ∗ ∼ log S. These results confirm the k-locality property of matrix mechanics discussed by Sekino and Susskind.
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Gur-Ari, G., Hanada, M. & Shenker, S.H. Chaos in classical D0-brane mechanics. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 91 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)091
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