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We study characteristic, dynamic, and saturation regimes of the out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) in the constant field Floquet system with and without longitudinal field. In the calculation of OTOC, we take local spins in longitudinal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Sunil Kumar Mishra

Operators in ergodic spin-chains are found to grow according to hydrodynamical equations of motion. The study of such operator spreading has aided our understanding of many-body quantum chaos in spin-chains. Here we initiate the study of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-29 Sanjay Moudgalya , Trithep Devakul , C. W. von Keyserlingk , S. L. Sondhi

The symmetry of chaotic systems plays a pivotal role in determining the universality class of spectral statistics and dynamical behaviors, which can be described within the framework of random matrix theory. Understanding the influence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Fuxing Chen , Ping Fang

We explore the effects of spatial locality on the dynamics of random quantum systems subject to a Markovian noise. To this end, we study a model in which the system Hamiltonian and its couplings to the noise are random matrices whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Dror Orgad , Vadim Oganesyan , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

The action of any local operator on a quantum system propagates through the system carrying the information of the operator. This is usually studied via the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC). We numerically study the information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-10 Samudra Sur , Diptiman Sen

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a measure of quantum chaos that is being vigorously investigated. Analytically accessible simple models that have long been studied in other contexts could provide insights into such measures.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Arul Lakshminarayan

How does quantum chaos lead to rapid scrambling of information as well as systematic errors across a system when one introduces perturbations in the dynamics? What are its consequences for the reliability of quantum simulations and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Abinash Sahu , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

Let $A$ and $B$ be local operators in Hamiltonian quantum systems with $N $ degrees of freedom and finite-dimensional Hilbert space. We prove that the commutator norm $\lVert [A(t),B]\rVert$ is upper bounded by a topological combinatorial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Chi-Fang Chen , Andrew Lucas

We study quantum information scrambling, specifically the growth of Heisenberg operators, in large disordered spin chains using matrix product operator dynamics to scan across the thermalization-localization quantum phase transition. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-23 Subhayan Sahu , Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

The complexity of simulating quantum many-body dynamics, or quantum computations, in the Heisenberg picture is governed by the scrambling of initially simple operators into superpositions of exponentially many Pauli strings. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Neil Dowling , Xhek Turkeshi , Jacopo De Nardis , Guglielmo Lami

The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of generic interacting quantum systems is characterized by a handful of universal guiding principles, among them the ballistic spreading of initially local operators. Here, we show that in certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Johannes Feldmeier , Michael Knap

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

The scrambling of quantum information in closed many-body systems, as measured by out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs), has lately received considerable attention. Recently, a hydrodynamical description of OTOCs has emerged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann , C. W. von Keyserlingk

The commutator between operators at different space and time has been a diagnostic for locality of unitary evolution. Most existing results are either for specific tractable (random) Hamiltonians(Out-of-Time-Order-Correlators calculations),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Chi-Fang Chen

Information scrambling, which is the spread of local information through a system's many-body degrees of freedom, is an intrinsic feature of many-body dynamics. In quantum systems, the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) quantifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Andreas Elben , Lata Kh Joshi , Torsten V. Zache

We investigate minimal two-body Hamiltonians with random interactions that generate spectra resembling those of Gaussian random matrices, a phenomenon we term quadratic quantum chaos. Unlike integrable two-body fermionic systems, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Pallab Basu , Suman Das , Pratik Nandy

Operator spreading under unitary time evolution has attracted a lot of attention recently, as a way to probe many-body quantum chaos. While quantities such as out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) do distinguish interacting from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

In closed quantum systems, Krylov complexity admits a geometric description; operator growth is equivalent to Hamiltonian flow in an emergent phase space whose structure is fixed by the Lanczos coefficients. We show that this picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Mpho Tladi , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We revisit thermal out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in single-particle quantum systems, focusing on magnetic billiards. Using the stadium billiard as a testbed, we compute the thermal OTOC $C_T(t) = -\langle [x(t), p]^2 \rangle_\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Cameron Beetar , Jeff Murugan

We study real-time local correlators $\langle\mathcal{O}(\mathbf{x},t)\mathcal{O}(0,0)\rangle$ in chaotic quantum many-body systems. These correlators show universal structure at late times, determined by the dominant operator-space Feynman…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-04 Adam Nahum , Sthitadhi Roy , Sagar Vijay , Tianci Zhou