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The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is central to the understanding of information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. In this work, we show that the OTOC in a quantum many-body system close to its critical point obeys dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Bo-Bo Wei , Gaoyong Sun , Myung-Joong Hwang

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), recently analyzed in several physical contexts, is studied for low-dimensional chaotic systems through semiclassical expansions and numerical simulations. The semiclassical expansion for the OTOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

The out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) function is an important new probe in quantum field theory which is treated as a significant measure of random quantum correlations. In this paper, with the slogan "Cosmology meets Condensed Matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-17 Sayantan Choudhury

The dynamical spreading of quantum information through a many-body system, typically called scrambling, is a complex process that has proven to be essential to describe many properties of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems. Scrambling can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Philip Daniel Blocher , Karthik Chinni , Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , Pablo M. Poggi

We study the asymptotic behavior, uniform-in-time, of a non-linear dynamical system under the combined effects of fast periodic sampling with period $\delta$ and small white noise of size $\varepsilon,\thinspace 0<\varepsilon,\delta \ll 1$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Shivam Singh Dhama , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

Scrambling of quantum information is the process by which information initially stored in the local degrees of freedom of a quantum many-body system spreads over its many-body degrees of freedom, becoming inaccessible to local probes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 R. J. Lewis-Swan , A. Safavi-Naini , J. J. Bollinger , A. M. Rey

We study the growth of the operator entanglement entropy (EE) of the time evolution operator in chaotic, many-body localized and Floquet systems. In the random field Heisenberg model we find a universal power law growth of the operator EE…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-27 Tianci Zhou , David J. Luitz

We study quench dynamics in the many-body Hilbert space using two isolated systems with a finite number of interacting particles: a paradigmatic model of randomly interacting bosons and a dynamical (clean) model of interacting spins-$1/2$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-05 Fausto Borgonovi , Felix M. Izrailev , Lea F. Santos

Motivated by the famous ink-drop experiment, where ink droplets are used to determine the chaoticity of a fluid, we propose an experimentally implementable method for measuring the scrambling capacity of quantum processes. Here, a system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Magdalini Zonnios , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

We describe the dynamics of many-body quantum chaotic systems at all time scales by studying the Green's and out-of-time order correlation (OTOC) functions of the four-body, $N$-Majorana Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. By combining the scramblon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-Ping Zheng

Information scrambling refers to the phenomenon in which local quantum information in a many-body system becomes dispersed throughout the entire system under unitary evolution. It has been extensively studied in closed quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Haolin Jiang , Pengfei Zhang

Operator spreading provides a new characterization of quantum chaos beyond the semi-classical limit. There are two complementary views of how the characteristic size of an operator, also known as the butterfly light cone, grows under…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Tianci Zhou , Éric Brunet , Xiaolin Qi

It is well established that the presence of single impurity can have a substantial impact on the transport properties of quantum many-body systems at low temperature. In this work, we investigate a close analog of this problem from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Qucheng Gao , Pengfei Zhang , Xiao Chen

Spatiotemporal chaotic systems are difficult to characterize in a model-free manner because of their high dimensionality, strong nonlinearity, and sensitivity to initial conditions. Coupled map lattices, as a representative class of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-15 Xiaoqi Lei , Zixiang Yan , Jian Gao , Yueheng Lan , Jinghua Xiao

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have become established as a tool to characterise quantum information dynamics and thermalisation in interacting quantum many-body systems. It was recently argued that the expected exponential growth of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-21 Marlon Brenes , Silvia Pappalardi , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold , Alessandro Silva

How much does local and time-periodic dynamics resemble a random unitary? In the present work we address this question by using the Clifford formalism from quantum computation. We analyse a Floquet model with disorder, characterised by a…

We consider growth of local operators under Euclidean time evolution in lattice systems with local interactions. We derive rigorous bounds on the operator norm growth and then proceed to establish an analog of the Lieb-Robinson bound for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander Avdoshkin , Anatoly Dymarsky

Floquet quantum circuits are able to realise a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum states, exhibiting quantum chaos, topological order and localisation. In this work, we investigate the stability of operator localisation and emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Marcell D. Kovács , Christopher J. Turner , Lluis Masanes , Arijeet Pal

The out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed and widely used recently as a tool to define and describe many-body quantum chaos. Here, we develop the Keldysh non-linear sigma model technique to calculate these correlators…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-16 Yunxiang Liao , Victor Galitski

The growth of simple operators is essential for the emergence of chaotic dynamics and quantum thermalization. Recent studies have proposed different measures, including the out-of-time-order correlator and Krylov complexity. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Liangyu Chen , Baoyuan Mu , Huajia Wang , Pengfei Zhang