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Researchers in physical science aim to uncover universal features in strongly interacting many-body systems, often hidden in complicated observables like entanglement entropy (EE). The non-local nature of EE makes it challenging to compute…

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Heisenberg time evolution under a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian $H$ transforms an initially simple operator into an increasingly complex one, as it spreads over Hilbert space. Krylov complexity, or `K-complexity', quantifies this growth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

Dynamics of a periodically time dependent quantum system is reflected in the features of the eigenstates of the Floquet operator. Of the special importance are their localization properties quantitatively characterized by the eigenvector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karol Zyczkowski

Understanding how and whether local perturbations can affect the entire quantum system is a fundamental step in understanding non-equilibrium phenomena such as thermalization. This knowledge of non-equilibrium phenomena is applicable for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-03 Eric Mascot , Masahiro Nozaki , Masaki Tezuka

For a quantum state undergoing unitary Schr\"odinger time evolution, the von Neumann entropy is constant. Yet the second law of thermodynamics, and our experience, show that entropy increases with time. Ingarden introduced the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Craig S. Lent

The geometry of quantum states could offer indispensable insights for characterizing the topological properties, phase transitions and entanglement nature of many-body systems. In this work, we reveal the quantum geometry and the associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Longwen Zhou

The non-equilibrium dynamics of disordered many-body quantum systems after a global quantum quench unveils important insights about the competition between interactions and disorder, yielding in particular an insightful perspective on many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-07 Youcef Mohdeb , Javad Vahedi , Ravindra N. Bhatt , Stephan Haas , Stefan Kettemann

We explore the long-time behavior of Local Operator Entanglement entropy (LOE) in finite-size interacting integrable systems. For certain operators in the Rule 54 automaton, we prove that the LOE saturates to a value that is at most…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-13 J. Alexander Jacoby , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Local-operator entanglement (LOE) quantifies the nonlocal structure of Heisenberg operators and serves as a diagnostic of many-body chaos. We provide rigorous bounds showing when an operator can be well-approximated by a matrix-product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Neil Dowling

We study the entanglement entropy(EE) of disordered one-dimensional spinless fermions with attractive interactions. With intensive numerical calculation of the EE using the density matrix renormalization group method, we find clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Rui-Lin Chu , An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

Time-dependent entanglement entropy (EE) is computed for a single interval in two-dimensional conformal theories from a quenched initial state in the presence of spatial boundaries. The EE is found to be periodic in time with periodicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-28 Gautam Mandal , Ritam Sinha , Tomonori Ugajin

We study operator growth in a bipartite kicked coupled tops (KCT) system using out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), which quantify ``information scrambling" due to chaotic dynamics and serve as a quantum analog of classical Lyapunov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

Thermalization and scrambling are the subject of much recent study from the perspective of many-body quantum systems with locally bounded Hilbert spaces (`spin chains'), quantum field theory and holography. We tackle this problem in 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Curt von Keyserlingk , Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann , Shivaji Sondhi

Entanglement entropy (EE) of a state is a measure of correlation or entanglement between two parts of a composite system and it may show appreciable change when the ground state (GS) undergoes a qualitative change in a quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-04 Sambunath Das , Dayasindhu Dey , S. Ramasesha , Manoranjan Kumar

The local-operator entanglement (LOE) measures the classical simulability of a Heisenberg operator and is conjectured to witness many-body chaos in locally interacting systems. Using tools from free probability, we analytically compute its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Neil Dowling , Silvia Pappalardi

We consider a random time evolution operator composed of a circuit of random unitaries coupling even and odd neighboring spins on a chain in turn. In spirit of Floquet evolution, the circuit is time-periodic; each timestep is repeated with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-31 Christoph Sünderhauf , David Pérez-García , David A. Huse , Norbert Schuch , J. Ignacio Cirac

The Anderson localization phase transition in the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) model with \textit{p}-wave superconducting (SC) pairing is numerically investigated by suddenly changing the on-site potential from zero to various finite values…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-04 Qi-Bo Zeng , Shu Chen , Rong Lü

We define a new complex-valued measure of information called the timelike entanglement entropy (EE) which in the boundary theory can be viewed as a Wick rotation that changes a spacelike boundary subregion to a timelike one. An explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Kazuki Doi , Jonathan Harper , Ali Mollabashi , Tadashi Takayanagi , Yusuke Taki

We investigate the quantum dynamics of a one-dimensional quasiperiodic system featuring a single-particle mobility edge (SPME), described by the generalized Aubry-Andr\'e (GAA) model. This model offers a unique platform to study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Yuqi Qing , Yu-Qin Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang

Operators in ergodic spin-chains are found to grow according to hydrodynamical equations of motion. The study of such operator spreading has aided our understanding of many-body quantum chaos in spin-chains. Here we initiate the study of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-29 Sanjay Moudgalya , Trithep Devakul , C. W. von Keyserlingk , S. L. Sondhi