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We introduce the notion of multi-dimensional chaos that applies to processes described by erratic functions of several dynamical variables. We employ this concept in the interpretation of classical and quantum scattering off a pinball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Jacob Sonnenschein , Dorin Weissman

We study signatures of chaos in the quantum Lifshitz model through out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOC) of current operators. This model is a free scalar field theory with dynamical critical exponent $z=2$. It describes the quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 Eugeniu Plamadeala , Eduardo Fradkin

The critical behavior in an important class of excited state quantum phase transitions is signaled by the presence of a new constant of motion only at one side of the critical energy. We study the impact of this phenomenon in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Ángel L. Corps , Rafael A. Molina , Armando Relaño

In recent years, analysis and control of quantum chaos are increasingly important, but the lack of the concept of trajectory makes it impossible to analyze quantum chaos by the methods used in classical chaos. This research aims to connect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Ciann-Dong Yang , Yen-Jiun Chen , Yun-Yan Lee

This work theoretically investigates the transition from topology to chaos in a periodically driven system consisting of a quantum top coupled to a spin-1/2 particle. The system is driven by two alternating interaction kicks per period. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 J. Mumford , H. -Y. Xie , R. J. Lewis-Swan

Chaotic flow is studied in a series of numerical magnetohydrodynamical simulations that use the shearing box formalism. This mimics important features of local accretion disk dynamics. The magnetorotational instability gives rise to flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. F. Winters , S. A. Balbus , J. F. Hawley

Born-Infeld-AdS black holes in extended phase space may possess phase structures resembling that of van der Waals fluid in four-dimensional spacetime. We study dynamics of its state, which is in the unstable spinodal region initially on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-21 Yong Chen , Haitang Li , Shao-Jun Zhang

We study the ultimate limits to the decoherence rate associated with dephasing processes. Fluctuating chaotic quantum systems are shown to exhibit extreme decoherence, with a rate that scales exponentially with the particle number, thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Zhenyu Xu , Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Aurélia Chenu , Adolfo del Campo

The non-equilibrium dynamic fluctuations of a stochastic version of the Gray-Scott (GS) model are studied analytically in leading order in perturbation theory by means of the dynamic renormalization group. There is an attracting stable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Hochberg , Felipe Lesmes , Federico Moran , Juan Perez-Mercader

Chaos is a phenomenon that occurs in many aspects of contemporary science. In classical dynamics, chaos is defined as a hypersensitivity to initial conditions. The presence of chaos is often unwanted, as it introduces unpredictability,…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-25 C. Liu , A. Di Falco , D. Molinari , Y. Khan , B. S. Ooi , T. F. Krauss , A. Fratalocchi

Transient chaos is an ubiquitous phenomenon characterizing the dynamics of phase space trajectories evolving towards a steady state attractor in physical systems as diverse as fluids, chemical reactions and condensed matter systems. Here we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Róbert Sumi , Melinda Varga , Zoltán Toroczkai , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

We study the quantum dynamics of the kicked Dicke model(KDM) in terms of the Floquet operator and analyze the connection between the chaos and thermalization in this context. The Hamiltonian map is constructed by taking the classical limit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-06 S. Ray , A. Ghosh , S. Sinha

In this work, we develop a quantum metrological framework for quantum chaos by showing that local subsystems of information scrambling systems naturally function as quantum stopwatches. The reduced quantum state of a subsystem encodes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Devjyoti Tripathy , Federico Centrone , Sebastian Deffner

A measure describing the chaos of a dynamics was introduced by two complexities in information dynamics, and it is called the chaos degree. In particular, the entropic chaos degree has been used to characterized several dynamical maps such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kei Inoue , Andrzej Kossakowski , Masanori Ohya

We study dynamic self-organisation and order-disorder transitions in a two-dimensional system of self-propelled particles. Our model is a variation of the Vicsek model, where particles align the motion to their neighbours but repel each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-02 Maksym Romenskyy , Vladimir Lobaskin

A simple probe of chaos and operator growth in many-body quantum systems is the out of time ordered four point function. In a large class of local systems, the effects of chaos in this correlator build up exponentially fast inside the so…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Márk Mezei , Gábor Sárosi

We provide a protocol to measure out-of-time-order correlation functions. These correlation functions are of theoretical interest for diagnosing the scrambling of quantum information in black holes and strongly interacting quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Brian Swingle , Gregory Bentsen , Monika Schleier-Smith , Patrick Hayden

We study scrambling in a model consisting of a number $N$ of $M$-component quantum rotors coupled by random infinite-range interactions. This model is known to have both a paramagnetic phase and a spin glass phase separated by second order…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-30 Gong Cheng , Brian Swingle

The question of how infalling matter in a pure state forms a Schwarzschild black hole that appears to be at non-zero temperature is discussed in the context of the AdS/CFT connection. It is argued that the phenomenon of self-thermalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Kalyana Rama , B. Sathiapalan

The phenomena of Squeezing and chaos have recently been studied in the context of inflation. We apply this formalism in the post-inflationary preheating phase. During this phase, inflaton field undergoes quasi-periodic oscillation, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Ayan Chakraborty , Debaprasad Maity