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We report a numerical observation where the infinite-temperature out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) directly probe quantum phase transitions at zero temperature, in contrast to common intuition where low energy quantum effects are washed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Ceren B. Dağ , L. -M. Duan , Kai Sun

We show that the most important measures of quantum chaos like frame potentials, scrambling, Loschmidt echo, and out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) can be described by the unified framework of the isospectral twirling, namely the Haar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Lorenzo Leone , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Alioscia Hamma

Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) quantify quantum information scrambling, but their connection to localized phase-space structures, such as chemical transition states, requires formal development. We derive a leading-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Stephen Wiggins

We study the dynamics of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) and entanglement of entropy as quantitative measures of information propagation in disordered many-body systems exhibiting Floquet time-crystal (FTC) phases. We find that OTOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Himanshu Sahu , Fernando Iemini

We demonstrate that two-time correlation functions, which are generalizations of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), can show 'false-flags' of chaos by exhibiting behaviour predicted by random matrix theory even in a system with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 W. Kirkby , D. H. J. O'Dell , J. Mumford

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been extensively studied in recent years as a diagnostic of quantum information scrambling. In this paper, we study quantum information-theoretic aspects of the regularized finite-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Namit Anand , Paolo Zanardi

We study the behavior of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) in a non-Hermitian quantum Ising system. We show that the OTOC can diagnose not only the ground state exceptional point, which hosts the Yang-Lee edge singularity, but also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Liang-Jun Zhai , Shuai Yin

Fast scrambling, quantified by the exponential initial growth of Out-of-Time-Ordered-Correlators (OTOCs), is the ability to efficiently spread quantum correlations among the degrees of freedom of interacting systems, and constitutes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Felix Meier , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Daniel Waltner , Thomas Guhr

We investigate the dynamics of the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) via a non-Hermitian extension of the quantum kicked rotor model, where the kicking potential satisfies $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry. The spontaneous $\cal{PT}$-symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Wen-Lei Zhao , Ru-Ru Wang

The dynamic region of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) serves as a powerful indicator of chaos in classical and semiclassical systems, capturing the characteristic exponential growth. In contrast, this signature fails to appear in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Gaurav Rudra Malik , S. Aravinda , Sunil Kumar Mishra

Quantum many-body scarred systems host special non-thermal eigenstates that support periodic revival dynamics and weakly break the ergodicity. Here, we study the quantum information scrambling dynamics in quantum many-body scarred systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Dong Yuan , Shun-Yao Zhang , Yu Wang , L. -M. Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

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

Out-of-Time-Order Correlation function measures transport properties of dynamical systems. They are ubiquitously used to measure quantum mechanical quantities, such as scrambling times, criticality in phase transitions, and detect onset of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Subhayan Roy Moulik , Sergii Strelchuk

How a many-body quantum system thermalizes --or fails to do so-- under its own interaction is a fundamental yet elusive concept. Here we demonstrate nuclear magnetic resonance observation of the emergence of prethermalization by measuring…

Previous studies show that, in quantum chaotic and integrable systems, the so-called out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) generically behaves differently at long times, while, it may show similar early growth in one-body systems. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-19 Hua Yan , Jiaozi Wang , Wen-ge Wang

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

A one-dimensional quantum oscillator is monitored by taking repeated position measurements. As a first con- tribution, it is shown that, under a quantum nondemolition measurement scheme applied to a system initially at the ground state, (i)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Vincenzo Matta , Vincenzo Pierro

Non-KAM (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) systems, when perturbed by weak time-dependent fields, offer a fast route to classical chaos through an abrupt breaking of invariant phase space tori. In this work, we employ out-of-time-order correlators…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-10 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Abinash Sahu , Arul Lakshminarayan , Vaibhav Madhok

The relaxation of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) has been studied as a mean to characterize the scrambling properties of a quantum system. We show that the presence of local conserved quantities typically results in, at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-22 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Dario Poletti

Quantum operator scrambling describes the spreading of local operators into the whole system in the picture of Heisenberg evolution, which is often quantified by the operator size growth. Here we propose a measure of quantum operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Bin Sun , Geng-Bin Cao , Xi-Dan Hu , Dan-Bo Zhang