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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

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

Scrambling, a process in which quantum information spreads over a complex quantum system becoming inaccessible to simple probes, happens in generic chaotic quantum many-body systems, ranging from spin chains, to metals, even to black holes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

We provide a protocol to measure out-of-time-order correlation functions. These correlation functions are of theoretical interest for diagnosing the scrambling of quantum information in black holes and strongly interacting quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Brian Swingle , Gregory Bentsen , Monika Schleier-Smith , Patrick Hayden

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

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…

Despite the fact that power-law interactions occur in a plethora of physical systems, their many-body dynamics is far less understood than that of nearest-neighbor interacting systems. Here, we study information scrambling in strongly…

Interacting many-body quantum systems show a rich array of physical phenomena and dynamical properties, but are notoriously difficult to study: they are challenging analytically and exponentially difficult to simulate on classical…

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 Brownian SYK model of $N$ interacting Majorana fermions, with random couplings that are taken to vary independently at each time. We study the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) of arbitrary observables and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Christoph Sünderhauf , Lorenzo Piroli , Xiao-Liang Qi , Norbert Schuch , J. Ignacio Cirac

In recent times out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) have been established as a tool to understand butterfly effects, quantum information scrambling, and many-body localization. They can also be useful in determining different phases of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rohit Kumar Shukla

In classical dynamical systems, chaotic behavior is often associated with exponential sensitivity to initial conditions together with global phase-space structure. Translating this geometric concept to the strictly linear framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Wiggins

Out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs) and their higher-order generalizations present important probes of quantum information dynamics and scrambling. We introduce a solvable many-body quantum model, which we term boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Felix Fritzsch , Gabriel O. Alves , Michael A. Rampp , Pieter W. Claeys

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have been proposed to characterize quantum chaos in generic systems. However, they can also show interesting behavior in integrable models, resembling the OTOC in chaotic systems in some aspects. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Cheng-Ju Lin , Olexei I. Motrunich

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) quantifies information scrambling in quantum systems and serves as a key diagnostic of quantum chaos. In one-body systems with a classical counterpart, the relaxation of the OTOC is governed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jerónimo Duarte , Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

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

Controllable arrays of ions and ultra-cold atoms can simulate complex many-body phenomena and may provide insights into unsolved problems in modern science. To this end, experimentally feasible protocols for quantifying the buildup of…

The non-integrability of quantum systems, often associated with chaotic behavior, is a concept typically applied to cases with a high-dimensional Hilbert space Among different indicators signaling this behavior, the study of the long-time…

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a powerful tool for probing quantum information scrambling, a fundamental process by which local information spreads irreversibly throughout a quantum many-body system. Experimentally measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Haruki Emori , Hiroyasu Tajima

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