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

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

Out-of-time-order correlations (OTOCs) characterize the scrambling, or delocalization, of quantum information over all the degrees of freedom of a system and thus have been proposed as a proxy for chaos in quantum systems. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Martin Gärttner , Philipp Hauke , Ana Maria Rey

Scrambling of quantum information can be conveniently quantified by so called out-of-time-order-correlators (OTOCs), whose measurements presents a formidable experimental challenge. Here we report on a method for the measurement of OTOCs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Michele Campisi , John Goold

We investigate both theoretically and numerically the dynamics of Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators (OTOCs) in quantum resonance condition for a kicked rotor model. We employ various operators to construct OTOCs in order to thoroughly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Guanling Li , Wen-Lei Zhao

We study many-body chaos in a (2+1)D relativistic scalar field theory at high temperatures in the classical statistical approximation, which captures the quantum critical regime and the thermal phase transition from an ordered to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-21 Alexander Schuckert , Michael Knap

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

We elucidate the relation between out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) and quantum phase transitions via analytically studying the OTOC dynamics in a degenerate spectrum. Our method points to key ingredients to dynamically detect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Ceren B. Dağ , Kai Sun , L. -M. Duan

We study the finite-temperature scrambling behavior of a quantum system described by a Hamiltonian chosen from a random matrix ensemble. This effectively (0+1)-dimensional model admits an exact calculation of various ensemble-averaged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-23 Sagar Vijay , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

Understanding thermalisation in quantum many-body systems is among the most enduring problems in modern physics. A particularly interesting question concerns the role played by quantum mechanics in this process, i.e. whether thermalisation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 Bruno Bertini , Katja Klobas , Pavel Kos , Daniel Malz

An extended formulation of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), which quantify noncommutative operator growth and information scrambling in quantum many-body systems, is developed for turbulence dynamics as a representative of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Motoki Nakata

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are of crucial importance for studying a wide variety of fundamental phenomena in quantum physics, ranging from information scrambling to quantum chaos and many-body localization. However, apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yukai Wu , L. -M. Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

In ergodic many-body quantum systems, locally encoded quantum information becomes, in the course of time evolution, inaccessible to local measurements. This concept of "scrambling" is currently of intense research interest, entailing a deep…

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

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

Quantum teleportation is a phenomenon arising from entanglement, decisively distinguishing the classical and quantum worlds. The recent success of many-body quantum teleportation is even more surprising: although input information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Shuyan Zhou , Pengfei Zhang , Zhenhua Yu

Correlations between different partitions of quantum systems play a central role in a variety of many-body quantum systems, and they have been studied exhaustively in experimental and theoretical research. Here, we investigate dynamical…

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have proven to be a useful tool for studying thermalisation in quantum systems. In particular, the exponential growth of OTOCS, or scrambling, is sometimes taken as an indicator of chaos in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 R. A. Kidd , A. Safavi-Naini , J. F. Corney

Within one-dimensional disordered models of interacting fermions we perform a numerical study of several dynamical density correlations, which can serve as hallmarks of the transition to the many-body localized state. Results confirm that…

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