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Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) are central probes of quantum scrambling, and their generalizations have recently become key primitives for both benchmarking quantum advantage and learning the structure of Hamiltonians. Yet their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Keisuke Fujii

The emergence of the arrow of time in quantum many-body systems stems from the inherent tendency of Hamiltonian evolution to scramble quantum information and increase entanglement. While, in principle, one might counteract this temporal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Yu-Chen Li , Tian-Gang Zhou , Shengyu Zhang , Ze Wu , Liqiang Zhao , Haochuan Yin , Xiaoxue An , Hui Zhai , Pengfei Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

The idea of the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) has recently emerged in the study of both condensed matter systems and gravitational systems. It not only plays a key role in investigating the holographic duality between a strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 Jun Li , Ruihua Fan , Hengyan Wang , Bingtian Ye , Bei Zeng , Hui Zhai , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Developing quantum technologies requires the control and understanding of the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum information in many-body systems. Local information propagates in the system by creating complex correlations known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Federico D. Domínguez , Gonzalo A. Álvarez

Two topics, evolving rapidly in separate fields, were combined recently: The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) signals quantum-information scrambling in many-body systems. The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability represents operators in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 Nicole Yunger Halpern , Brian Swingle , Justin Dressel

We investigate the scrambling of information in a hierarchical star-topology system using out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) functions. The system consists of a central qubit directly interacting with a set of satellite qubits, which in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Deepak Khurana , V. R. Krithika , T. S. Mahesh

Random quantum circuits yield minimally structured models for chaotic quantum dynamics, able to capture for example universal properties of entanglement growth. We provide exact results and coarse-grained models for the spreading of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Adam Nahum , Sagar Vijay , Jeongwan Haah

We consider the time evolution of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) of two general observables $A$ and $B$ in a mean field chaotic quantum system described by a random Wigner matrix as its Hamiltonian. We rigorously identify three…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Giorgio Cipolloni , László Erdős , Joscha Henheik

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have received considerable recent attention as qualitative witnesses of information scrambling in many-body quantum systems. Theoretical discussions of OTOCs typically focus on closed systems, raising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 José Raúl González Alonso , Nicole Yunger Halpern , Justin Dressel

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as sensitive probes for chaos in interacting quantum systems. They exhibit a characteristic classical exponential growth, but saturate beyond the so-called scrambling or Ehrenfest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-25 Josef Rammensee , Juan-Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

The entanglement in operator space is a well established measure for the complexity of the quantum many-body dynamics. In particular, that of local operators has recently been proposed as dynamical chaos indicator, i.e. as a quantity able…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

The study of information scrambling has profoundly deepened our understanding of many-body quantum systems. Much recent research has been devote to understanding the interplay between scrambling and decoherence in open systems. Continuing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Emanuel Dallas , Faidon Andreadakis , Paolo Zanardi

Classical chaotic systems exhibit exponentially diverging trajectories due to small differences in their initial state. The analogous diagnostic in quantum many-body systems is an exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-06 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Stephan Plugge , Oguzhan Can , Marcel Franz

How fast quantum information scrambles such that it becomes inaccessible by local probes turns out to be central to various fields. Motivated by recent works on spin systems with nonlocal interactions, we study information scrambling in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Darvin Wanisch , Juan Diego Arias Espinoza , Stephan Fritzsche

Recently, the out-of-time-ordered correlator(OTOC) and Krylov complexity have been studied actively as a measure of operator growth. OTOC is known to exhibit exponential growth in chaotic systems, which was confirmed in many previous works.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Seungjoo Baek

We explore the physics of scrambling in the moving mirror models, in which a two-dimensional CFT is subjected to a time-dependent boundary condition. It is well-known that by choosing an appropriate mirror profile, one can model quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-11 Parthajit Biswas , Bobby Ezhuthachan , Arnab Kundu , Baishali Roy

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) describe information scrambling under unitary time evolution, and provide a useful probe of the emergence of quantum chaos. Here we calculate OTOCs for a model of disorder-free localization whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Adam Smith , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner , Dmitry L. Kovrizhin

Quantum information stored in local operators spreads over other degrees of freedom of the system during time evolution, known as scrambling. This process is conveniently characterized by the out-of-time-order commutators (OTOC), whose time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Zoltán Okvátovity , Balázs Dóra

Understanding quantum chaos is of profound theoretical interest and carries significant implications for various applications, from condensed matter physics to quantum error correction. Recently, out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs) have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Naga Dileep Varikuti

Recent experimental and theoretical developments in many-body quantum systems motivate the study of their out-of-equilibrium properties through multi-time correlation functions. We consider the dynamics of higher-order out-of-time-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Felix Fritzsch , Pieter W. Claeys