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Quantum information scrambling refers to the loss of local recoverability of quantum information, which has found widespread attention from high energy physics to quantum computing. In the present analysis we propose a possible starting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

Quantum scrambling is the dispersal of local information into many-body quantum entanglements and correlations distributed throughout the entire system. This concept underlies the dynamics of thermalization in closed quantum systems, and…

Chaotic behavior of quantum systems can be characterized by the adherence of the expectation values of given probes to moments of the Haar distribution. In this work, we analyze the behavior of several probes of chaos using a technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Stefano Cusumano , Gianluca Esposito , Alioscia Hamma

Random matrix theory (RMT) universality is the defining property of quantum mechanical chaotic systems, and can be probed by observables like the spectral form factor (SFF). In this paper, we describe systematic deviations from RMT…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-15 Rahel L. Baumgartner , Luca V. Delacrétaz , Pranjal Nayak , Julian Sonner

The emergence of random matrix spectral correlations in interacting quantum systems is a defining feature of quantum chaos. We study such correlations in terms of the spectral form factor in interacting chaotic few- and many-body systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Felix Fritzsch , Maximilian F. I. Kieler

Assuming the validity of random matrices for describing the statistics of a closed chaotic quantum system, we study analytically some statistical properties of the S-matrix characterizing scattering in its open counterpart. In the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yan. V. Fyodorov , H. -J. Sommers

The so-called chaotic states that emerge on the model of $XY$ interacting on regular critical range networks are analyzed. Typical time scales are extracted from the time series analysis of the global magnetization. The large spectrum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-10 Martin Belger , Sarah De Nigris , Xavier Leoncini

Inspired by the Hayden-Preskill protocol for black hole evaporation, we consider the dynamics of a quantum many-body qudit system coupled to an external environment, where the time evolution is driven by the continuous limit of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-14 Lorenzo Piroli , Christoph Sünderhauf , Xiao-Liang Qi

We investigate the quantum dynamics of many-body systems subject to local, i.e. restricted to a limited space region, time-dependent perturbations. If the perturbation drives the system across a quantum transition, an off-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-21 Andrea Pelissetto , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Understanding the emergence of quantum chaos in multipartite systems is challenging in the presence of interactions. We show that the contribution of the subsystems to the global behavior can be revealed by probing the full counting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Zan Cao , Zhenyu Xu , Adolfo del Campo

Operator scrambling is a crucial ingredient of quantum chaos. Specifically, in the quantum chaotic system, a simple operator can become increasingly complicated under unitary time evolution. This can be diagnosed by various measures such as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-25 Xiao Chen , Tianci Zhou

The most general and versatile defining feature of quantum chaotic systems is that they possess an energy spectrum with correlations universally described by random matrix theory (RMT). This feature can be exhibited by systems with a well…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-11 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

Fast scrambling, quantified by the exponential initial growth of Out-of-Time-Ordered-Correlators (OTOCs), is the ability to efficiently spread quantum correlations among the degrees of freedom of interacting systems, and constitutes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Felix Meier , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Daniel Waltner , Thomas Guhr

In quantum chaos, the spectral statistics generally follows the predictions of Random Matrix Theory (RMT). A notable exception is given by scar states, that enhance probability density around unstable periodic orbits of the classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-19 Domenico Lippolis

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK) is renowned for its short-time chaotic behavior, which plays a fundamental role in its application to various fields such as quantum gravity and holography. The Thouless energy, representing the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-17 Richard Berkovits

The growth of information scrambling, captured by out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), is a central indicator of the nature of many-body quantum dynamics. Here, we compute analytically the complete time dependence of the OTOC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-ping Zheng

We show the emergence of random matrix theory (RMT) spectral correlations in the chaotic phase of generic periodically kicked interacting quantum many-body systems by analytically calculating spectral form factor (SFF), $K(t)$, up to two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-07 Vijay Kumar , Tomaž Prosen , Dibyendu Roy

Random matrix theory (RMT) provides a framework to study the spectral fluctuations in physical systems. RMT is capable of making predictions for the fluctuations only after the removal of the secular properties of the spectrum. Spectral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-02 Sherif M. Abuelenin

We study the role of randomness in the scrambling of quantum information within integrable free-fermionic systems. Considering quadratic Hamiltonians with varying degrees of randomness, we analyze entanglement-based measures to characterize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ali Mollabashi , Mohammad-Javad Vasli

We introduce randomness into a class of integrable models and study the spectral form factor as a diagnostic to distinguish between randomness and chaos. Spectral form factors exhibit a characteristic dip-ramp-plateau behavior in the $N>2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Pak Hang Chris Lau , Chen-Te Ma , Jeff Murugan , Masaki Tezuka