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The spatiotemporal evolution of the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) measures the propagation and scrambling of local quantum information. For the transverse field Ising model with open boundaries, the local operator $\sigma^{x}$ shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-12 Samudra Sur , Diptiman Sen

We study theoretically entanglement and operator growth in a spin system coupled to an environment, which is modeled with classical dephasing noise. Using exact numerical simulations we show that the entanglement growth and its fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-16 Michael Knap

The Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) equation provides a mean-field theory of out-of-time-ordered commutators in locally interacting quantum chaotic systems at high energy density; in the systems with power-law interactions, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 Tianci Zhou , Andrew Y. Guo , Shenglong Xu , Xiao Chen , Brian Swingle

The dynamical generation of complex correlations in quantum many-body systems is of renewed interest in the context of quantum chaos, where the out-of-time-ordered (OTO) correlation function appears as a convenient measure of scrambling. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Adrian Chapman , Akimasa Miyake

Out-of-time ordered (OTO) correlation functions describe scrambling of information in correlated quantum matter. They are of particular interest in incoherent quantum systems lacking well defined quasi-particles. Thus far, it is largely…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-06 A. Bohrdt , C. B. Mendl , M. Endres , M. Knap

The out of time order correlator (OTOC) serves as a powerful tool for investigating quantum information spreading and chaos in complex systems. We present a method employing non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) and coherent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-20 Chakradhar Rangi , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

The out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) is a measure of scrambling of quantum information. Scrambling is intuitively considered to be a significant feature of chaotic systems and thus the OTOC is widely used as a measure of chaos. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Tomás Notenson , Ignacio García-Mata , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

In this article, we explore dynamical aspects of Out-of-Time-Order correlators (OTOCs) for critical quenches, in which an initial non-trivial state evolves with a CFT-Hamiltonian. At sufficiently large time, global critical quenches exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-31 Suchetan Das , Bobby Ezhuthachan , Arnab Kundu , Somnath Porey , Baishali Roy

We calculate the third-order out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) of a simple harmonic oscillator with an additional quartic interaction using the second quantization method. We obtain analytic relations for the spectrum, Fock space states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Wung-Hong Huang

The study of information scrambling in many-body systems has sharpened our understanding of quantum chaos, complexity and gravity. Here, we extend the framework for exploring information scrambling to infinite dimensional continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Quntao Zhuang , Thomas Schuster , Beni Yoshida , Norman Y. Yao

Chaotic dynamics in closed local quantum systems scrambles quantum information, which is manifested quantitatively in the decay of the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) of local operators. How is information scrambling affected when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yong-Liang Zhang , Yichen Huang , Xie Chen

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are an effective tool in characterizing black hole chaos, many-body thermalization and quantum dynamics instability. Previous research findings have shown that the OTOCs' exponential growth (EG) marks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Wen-Lei Zhao , Yue Hu , Zhi Li , Qian Wang

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been extensively used over the last few years to study information scrambling and quantum chaos in many-body systems. In this paper, we extend the formalism of the averaged bipartite OTOC of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Paolo Zanardi , Namit Anand

Scrambling and thermalisation are topics of intense study in both condensed matter and high energy physics. Random unitary dynamics form a simple testing-ground for our theoretical understanding of these processes. In this work, we derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Ewan McCulloch

Random permutation circuits were recently introduced as minimal models for local many-body dynamics that can be interpreted both as classical and quantum. Standard dynamical complexity indicators such as damage spreading and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Bruno Bertini , Katja Klobas , Pavel Kos , Daniel Malz

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 time-dependence of multi-point observable correlation functions are essential quantities in analysis and simulation of quantum dynamics. Open quantum systems approaches utilize two-point correlations to describe the influence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yoana R. Chorbadzhiyska , Peter A. Ivanov , Charlie Nation

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…

Quantum measurement is a process that involves the interaction between a quantum system and a macroscopic measurement apparatus containing many degrees of freedom. The photodetector is such an apparatus with many electrons interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Yubao Liu , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma

Many quantitative approaches to the dynamical scrambling of information in quantum systems involve the study of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs). In this paper, we introduce an algebraic OTOC ($\mathcal{A}$-OTOC) that allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Faidon Andreadakis , Namit Anand , Paolo Zanardi