Extreme Decoherence and Quantum Chaos

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We study the ultimate limits to the decoherence rate associated with dephasing processes.

• Fluctuating chaotic quantum systems are shown to exhibit extreme decoherence, with a rate that scales exponentially with the particle number, thus exceeding the polynomial dependence of systems with fluctuating $k$-body interactions.
• Our findings suggest the use of quantum chaotic systems as a natural test-bed for spontaneous wave function collapse models.
• We further discuss the implications on the decoherence of AdS/CFT black holes resulting from the unitarity loss associated with energy dephasing.