The Dissipative Spectral Form Factor for I.I.D. Matrices

The dissipative spectral form factor (DSFF), recently introduced in Li et al. (Phys Rev Lett 127(17):170602, 2021) for the Ginibre ensemble, is a key tool to study universal properties of dissipative quantum systems. In this work we compute the DSFF for a large class of random matrices with real or complex entries up to an intermediate time scale, confirming the predictions from Li et al. (Phys Rev Lett 127(17):170602, 2021). The analytic formula for the DSFF in the real case was previously unknown. Furthermore, we show that for short times the connected component of the DSFF exhibits a non-universal correction depending on the fourth cumulant of the entries. These results are based on the central limit theorem for linear eigenvalue statistics of non-Hermitian random matrices Cipolloni et al. (Electron J Prob 26:1–61, 2021) and Cipolloni et al. (Commun Pure Appl Math 76(5): 946–1034, 2023).