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The problem of optimally estimating an unknown unitary quantum operation with the aid of entanglement is addressed. The idea is to prepare an entangled pair, apply the unknown unitary to one of the two parts and then measure the joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuel A. Ballester

We study quantum chaos for systems with more than one degree of freedom, for which we present an analysis of the dynamics of entanglement. Our analysis explains the main features of entanglement dynamics and identifies entanglement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shohini Ghose , Barry C. Sanders

Classical chaotic systems exhibit exponentially diverging trajectories due to small differences in their initial state. The analogous diagnostic in quantum many-body systems is an exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-06 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Stephan Plugge , Oguzhan Can , Marcel Franz

Entanglement in quantum many-body systems is the key concept for future technology and science, opening up a possibility to explore uncharted realms in an enormously large Hilbert space. The hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-02 Donggyu Kim , Pureum Noh , Hyun-Yong Lee , Eun-Gook Moon

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

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as a probe of chaos in quantum mechanics, on the basis of their short-time exponential growth found in some particular set-ups. However, it has been seen that this behavior is not…

Quantum discord in a bipartite system can be dynamically revealed and quantified through purely local operations on one of the two subsystems. To achieve this, the local detection method harnesses the influence of initial correlations on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 Manuel Gessner , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Andreas Buchleitner

Dual-unitary circuits have emerged as a minimal model for chaotic quantum many-body dynamics in which the dynamics of correlations and entanglement remains tractable. Simultaneously, there has been intense interest in the effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Pieter W. Claeys , Marius Henry , Jamie Vicary , Austen Lamacraft

Cellular automata (CA) exemplify systems where simple local interaction rules can lead to intricate and complex emergent phenomena at large scales. The various types of dynamical behavior of CA are usually categorized empirically into…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-06-10 Wout Merbis , Calvin Bakker

We introduce a new family of quantum circuits for which the scrambling of a subspace of non-local operators is classically simulable. We call these circuits `super-Clifford circuits', since the Heisenberg time evolution of these operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Mike Blake , Noah Linden

Operator scrambling, which governs the spread of quantum information in many-body systems, is a central concept in both condensed matter and high-energy physics. Accurately capturing the emergent properties of these systems remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tianfeng Feng , Yue Cao , Qi Zhao

Local-operator entanglement (LOE) quantifies the nonlocal structure of Heisenberg operators and serves as a diagnostic of many-body chaos. We provide rigorous bounds showing when an operator can be well-approximated by a matrix-product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Neil Dowling

We introduce an operational entanglement classification of symmetric mixed states for an arbitrary number of qubits based on stochastic local operations assisted with classical communication (SLOCC operations). We define families of SLOCC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 T. Bastin , P. Mathonet , E. Solano

Scrambling in many-body quantum systems causes initially local observables to spread uniformly over the whole available Hilbert space under unitary dynamics, which in lattice systems causes exponential suppression of dynamical correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-27 Felix Fritzsch , Tomaž Prosen

Chaotic dynamics in quantum many-body systems scrambles local information so that at late times it can no longer be accessed locally. This is reflected quantitatively in the out-of-time-ordered correlator of local operators, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Yichen Huang , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Yong-Liang Zhang

The idea of the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) has recently emerged in the study of both condensed matter systems and gravitational systems. It not only plays a key role in investigating the holographic duality between a strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 Jun Li , Ruihua Fan , Hengyan Wang , Bingtian Ye , Bei Zeng , Hui Zhai , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

We consider a dynamic protocol for quantum many-body systems, which enables to study the interplay between unitary Hamiltonian driving and random local projective measurements. While the unitary dynamics tends to increase entanglement,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Quantum circuits -- built from local unitary gates and local measurements -- are a new playground for quantum many-body physics and a tractable setting to explore universal collective phenomena far-from-equilibrium. These models have shed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Matthew P. A. Fisher , Vedika Khemani , Adam Nahum , Sagar Vijay

Operator spreading has profound implications in diverse fields ranging from statistical mechanics and blackhole physics to quantum information. The usual way to quantify it is through out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), which are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 K. J. Joven , V. M. Bastidas

Chaotic many-body dynamics typically generates volume-law entanglement from initially low-entangled states. We reveal an intricate, hierarchical entanglement structure in local quantum quenches, both in the canonical purification of locally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Tarun Grover