title: Non-Gaussian noise in quantum spin glasses and interacting two-level systems.
abstract: We study a general model for non-Gaussian 1/f noise based on an infinite range quantum Ising spin system in the paramagnetic state, or, equivalently, interacting two-level classical fluctuators. We identify a dilatation interaction term in the dynamics which survives the thermodynamic limit and circumvents the central limit theorem to produce non-Gaussian noise even when the equilibrium distribution is that of noninteracting spins. The resulting second spectrum ("noise of the noise") itself has a universal 1/f form which we analyze within a dynamical mean-field approximation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Girvin