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Detection of quantum phases via out-of-time-order correlators

Quantum Physics 2019-10-09 v3 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We elucidate the relation between out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) and quantum phase transitions via analytically studying the OTOC dynamics in a degenerate spectrum. Our method points to key ingredients to dynamically detect quantum phases via out-of-time-order correlators for a wide range of quantum phase transitions and explains the existing numerical results in the literature. We apply our method to a critical model, XXZ model that numerically confirms our predictions.

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@article{arxiv.1902.05041,
  title  = {Detection of quantum phases via out-of-time-order correlators},
  author = {Ceren B. Dağ and Kai Sun and L. -M. Duan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05041},
  year   = {2019}
}

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