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Universal Logarithmic Scrambling in Many Body Localization

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2016-08-30 v2 Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Out of time ordered correlator (OTOC) is recently introduced as a powerful diagnose for quantum chaos. To go beyond, here we present an analytical solution of OTOC for a non-chaotic many body localized (MBL) system, showing distinct feature from quantum chaos and Anderson localization (AL). The OTOC is found to fall only if the nearest distance between the two operators being shorter than ξlnt\xi\ln t, where ξ\xi is dimensionless localization length. Thereafter, we found an universal power law decay of OTOC as 2ξlnt2^{-\xi\ln t}, implying an universal logarithmic growth of second R\'{e}nyi entropy, where ξ\xi plays the role of information scrambling rate. A relation between butterfly velocity and scrambling rate is found.

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@article{arxiv.1608.02765,
  title  = {Universal Logarithmic Scrambling in Many Body Localization},
  author = {Yu Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02765},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures

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