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Out-of-Time-Order Correlation in Marginal Many-Body Localized Systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-05-03 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We show that the out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) W(t)V(0)W(t)V(0) \langle W(t)^\dagger V(0)^\dagger W(t)V(0)\rangle in many-body localized (MBL) and marginal MBL systems can be efficiently calculated by the spectrum bifurcation renormalization group (SBRG). We find that in marginal MBL systems, the scrambling time tscrt_\text{scr} follows a stretched exponential scaling with the distance dWVd_{WV} between the operators WW and VV: tscrexp(dWV/l0)t_\text{scr}\sim\exp(\sqrt{d_{WV}/l_0}), which demonstrates Sinai diffusion of quantum information and the enhanced scrambling by the quantum criticality in non-chaotic systems.

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@article{arxiv.1611.04058,
  title  = {Out-of-Time-Order Correlation in Marginal Many-Body Localized Systems},
  author = {Kevin Slagle and Zhen Bi and Yi-Zhuang You and Cenke Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04058},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures