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The fusion rules and operator product expansion (OPE) serve as crucial tools in the study of operator algebras within conformal field theory (CFT). Building upon the vision of using entanglement to explore the connections between fusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang , Long Zhao , Zi-Xuan Zhao

How are the spatial and temporal patterns of information scrambling in locally interacting quantum many-body systems imprinted on the eigenstates of the system's time-evolution operator? We address this question by identifying statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Bikram Pain , Ratul Thakur , Sthitadhi Roy

Operator growth, or operator spreading, describes the process where a "simple" operator acquires increasing complexity under the Heisenberg time evolution of a chaotic dynamics, therefore has been a key concept in the study of quantum chaos…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-18 Laimei Nie

We study the time evolution of the excess value of capacity of entanglement between a locally excited state and ground state in free, massless fermionic theory and free Yang-Mills theory in four spacetime dimensions. Capacity has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Pratik Nandy

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) in the Ising Floquet system, that can be both integrable and nonintegrable is studied. Instead of localized spin observables, we study contiguous symmetric blocks of spins or random operators localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Arul Lakshminarayan , Sunil Kumar Mishra

Scrambling in interacting quantum systems out of equilibrium is particularly effective in the chaotic regime. Under time evolution, initially localized information is said to be scrambled as it spreads throughout the entire system. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-26 Adolfo del Campo , Javier Molina Vilaplana , Lea F. Santos , Julian Sonner

We discuss the time dependence of subsystem entropies in interacting quantum systems. As a model for the time dependence, we suggest that the entropy is as large as possible given two constraints: one follows from the existence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-02 Márk Mezei , Douglas Stanford

We study the quantum complexity of time evolution in large-$N$ chaotic systems, with the SYK model as our main example. This complexity is expected to increase linearly for exponential time prior to saturating at its maximum value, and is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-05 Vijay Balasubramanian , Matthew DeCross , Arjun Kar , Onkar Parrikar

The properties of the entanglement entropy (EE) in one-dimensional disordered interacting systems are studied. Anderson localization leaves a clear signature on the average EE, as it saturates on length scale exceeding the localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Richard Berkovits

We investigate the dynamical evolution of entanglement entropy in a holographic superconductor model by quenching the source term of the dual charged scalar operator. By access to the full background geometry, the holographic entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-17 Xiaojian Bai , Bum-Hoon Lee , Li Li , Jia-Rui Sun , Hai-Qing Zhang

Entanglement growth and out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) are used to assess the propagation of information in isolated quantum systems. In this work, using large scale exact time-evolution we show that for weakly disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 David J. Luitz , Yevgeny Bar Lev

In one dimension, the area law and its implications for the approximability by Matrix Product States are the key to efficient numerical simulations involving quantum states. Similarly, in simulations involving quantum operators, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-07 J. Dubail

The concept of space-evolution (or space-time duality) has emerged as a promising approach for studying quantum dynamics. The basic idea involves exchanging the roles of space and time, evolving the system using a space transfer matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Alessandro Foligno , Tianci Zhou , Bruno Bertini

In this paper, we investigate the time evolution of entanglement entropy and mutual information for the spatially-infinite systems where we act with a primary operator on the vacuum state and then time-evolve it with the sequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Weibo Mao , Akihiro Miyata , Masahiro Nozaki , Farzad Omidi

We study a so-called semi-ergodic brickwork dual-unitary circuits where, in the infinite volume limit, the two-point correlation functions of single-site operators exhibit ergodic behavior along one light ray and non-ergodic behavior along…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Mao Tian Tan , Tomaž Prosen

The time evolution of entanglement tracks how information propagates in interacting quantum systems. We study entanglement entropy in CFT$_2$ with a time-dependent Hamiltonian. We perturb by operators with time-dependent source functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Allic Sivaramakrishnan

The structure of the Heisenberg evolution of operators plays a key role in explaining diverse processes in quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we discuss a new universal feature of operator evolution: an operator can develop a void…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Hong Liu , Shreya Vardhan

We study the time evolution operator in a family of local quantum circuits with random fields in a fixed direction. We argue that the presence of quantum chaos implies that at large times the time evolution operator becomes effectively a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Pavel Kos , Bruno Bertini , Tomaž Prosen

Entanglement entropy is a fundamental diagnostic for quantum chaos, typically exhibiting volume-law scaling in highly excited eigenstates of chaotic many-body systems. In this work, we present a striking counterexample: a Floquet-driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Chunyin Chen , Sizhe Yan , Biao Wu

Local Operator Entanglement (LOE) has emerged an indicator of quantum chaos in many-body systems. Numerical studies have shown that, in chaotic systems, LOE grows linearly in time and displays a volume-law behavior at late times, scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Guilherme Ilário Correr , John Goold , Marco Cattaneo