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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

Out-of time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have recently attracted significant attention from the physics of many-body systems, to quantum black-holes, with an exponential growth of the OTOC indicating quantum chaos. Here we consider OTOC in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , Arul Lakshminarayan

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

In the study of quantum chaos, `out of time ordered correlators' (OTOCs) are commonly used to quantify the rate at which quantum information is scrambled. This rate has been conjectured by Maldecena et al. to obey a universal, temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Andrew C. Hunt

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

We present a method to probe the Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) of a general system by coupling it to a harmonic oscillator probe. When the system's degrees of freedom are traced out, the OTOCs imprint themselves on the generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Soumyadeep Chaudhuri , R. Loganayagam

In recent years, the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) has emerged as a diagnostic tool for information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. Here, we present exact analytical results for the OTOC for a typical pair of random local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Georgios Styliaris , Namit Anand , Paolo Zanardi

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) are a quantifier of quantum information scrambling and quantum chaos. We propose an efficient quantum algorithm to measure OTOCs that provides an exponential speed-up over the best known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Sreeram PG , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

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 consider the long-time limit of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in two classes of quantum lattice models with time evolution governed by local unitary quantum circuits and maximal butterfly velocity $v_{B} = 1$. Using a transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Pieter W. Claeys , Austen Lamacraft

The concept of out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) function is treated as a very strong theoretical probe of quantum randomness, using which one can study both chaotic and non-chaotic phenomena in the context of quantum statistical…

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

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 provide an exact evaluation of the out-of-time correlation (OTOC) functions for the localized $f$-particle states in the Falicov-Kimball model within dynamical mean-field theory. Different regimes of quantum chaos and quantum scrambling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 A. M. Shvaika , J. K. Freericks

The growth of information scrambling, captured by out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), is a central indicator of the nature of many-body quantum dynamics. Here, we compute analytically the complete time dependence of the OTOC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-ping Zheng

Out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), been suggested as a measure of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems, has received enormous attention recently. The experimental measurement of OTOC is quite challenging. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Xinfang Nie , Ze Zhang , Xiuzhu Zhao , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

In this study, we investigate out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in systems with power-law decaying interactions such as $R^{-\alpha}$, where $R$ is the distance. In such systems, the fast scrambling of quantum information or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) of simple harmonic oscillator with extra anharmonic (quartic) interaction are calculated by the second quantization method. We obtain the analytic formulas of spectrum, Fock space states and matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Wung-Hong Huang

Out-of-Time-Order-Correlator (OTOC) and Loschmidt Echo (LE) are commonly regarded as diagnostic tools for chaos, although they may yield misleading results because of various other factors. Previous studies have concluded that OTOC shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Pranaya Pratik Das , Biplab Ganguli

We provide a detailed examination of a thermal out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) growing exponentially in time in systems without chaos. The system is a one-dimensional quantum mechanics with a potential whose part is an inverted harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Koji Hashimoto , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Keun-Young Kim , Ryota Watanabe