Nonabelian gauge theories are chaotic in the classical limit. We discuss new evidence from SU(2) lattice gauge theory that they are also chaotic at the quantum level. We also describe possible future studies aimed at discovering the consequences of this insight. Based on a lecture presented by the first author at the Particles and Plasmas Symposium 2024.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the scientific support and HPC resources provided by the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universit ̈at Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) under the NHR project b172da-2. NHR funding is provided by federal and Bavarian state authorities. NHR@FAU hardware is partially funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG 440719683). BM and XY acknowledge support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Nuclear Physics (awards DE-FG02-05ER41367 and DE-SC0020970).
