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The theory of quantum information provides a common language which links disciplines ranging from cosmology to condensed-matter physics. For example, the delocalization of quantum information in strongly-interacting many-body systems, known…

We propose an experimentally realizable quantum spin model that exhibits fast scrambling, based on non-local interactions which couple sites whose separation is a power of 2. By controlling the relative strengths of deterministic,…

The dynamical spreading of quantum information through a many-body system, typically called scrambling, is a complex process that has proven to be essential to describe many properties of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems. Scrambling can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Philip Daniel Blocher , Karthik Chinni , Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , Pablo M. Poggi

The breakdown of Lieb-Robinson bounds in local, non-Hermitian quantum systems opens up the possibility for a rich landscape of quantum many-body phenomenology. We elucidate this by studying information scrambling and quantum chaos in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Brian Barch , Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor Rieffel , Paolo Zanardi

We introduce a minimal model for realizing a fast-to-slow scrambling transition mediated by an auxiliary central qubit (c-qubit). The c-qubit is coupled to a spin-$1/2$ Ising model with local Ising interactions and tunable c-qubit-spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Joseph Szabo , Nandini Trivedi

This tutorial article introduces the physics of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. The goals are to understand how to precisely quantify the spreading of quantum information and how causality emerges in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

This work develops tools to understand how quantum information spreads, scrambles, and is reshaped by measurements in many-body systems. First, I study scrambling and pseudorandomness in the Brownian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Anastasiia Tiutiakina

Measurement-induced phase transitions arise due to a competition between the scrambling of quantum information in a many-body system and local measurements. In this work we investigate these transitions in different classes of fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Tomohiro Hashizume , Gregory Bentsen , Andrew J. Daley

We formulate a kinetic theory of quantum information scrambling in the context of a paradigmatic model of interacting electrons in the vicinity of a superconducting phase transition. We carefully derive a set of coupled partial differential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-05 Camille Aron , Eric Brunet , Aditi Mitra

We study chaos and scrambling in unitary channels by considering their entanglement properties as states. Using out-of-time-order correlation functions to diagnose chaos, we characterize the ability of a channel to process quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi , Daniel A. Roberts , Beni Yoshida

We investigate the dynamics of information scrambling in bosonic systems undergoing Gaussian unitary evolution associated with quadratic Hamiltonians. For initial Gaussian states, we observe the disappearance of the memory effect in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Ali Mollabashi , Saleh Rahimi-Keshari

Quantum information scrambling has attracted much attention amid the effort to reconcile the conflict between quantum-mechanical unitarity and the thermalizaiton-irreversibility in many-body systems. Here we propose an unconventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Xiaopeng Li , Guanyu Zhu , Muxin Han , Xin Wang

Quantum Information scrambling (QI-scrambling) is a pivotal area of inquiry within the study of quantum many-body systems. This research derives mathematical upper and lower bounds for the scrambling rate by applying the Maligranda…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Ahmed Zahia , M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Atta ur Rahman , Cong Feng Qiao

Scrambling quantum systems have attracted attention as effective substrates for temporal information processing. Here we consider a quantum reservoir processing framework that captures a broad range of physical computing models with quantum…

Quantum information scrambling, which describes the propagation and effective loss of localinformation, is crucial for understanding the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. We report the observation of anomalous information scrambling in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Xinhui Liang , Zongpei Yue , Yu-Xin Chao , Zhen-Xing Hua , Yige Lin , Meng Khoon Tey , Li You

Quantum information scrambling is a unitary process that destroys local correlations and spreads information throughout the system, effectively hiding it in nonlocal degrees of freedom. In principle, unscrambling this information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Lorenzo Leone , Seth Lloyd , Alioscia Hamma

Quantum system interacting with environment can induce redundant encoding of the information of system into a multipartite environment, which is the essence of quantum Darwinism. At the same time, environment may scramble the initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Feng Tian , Jian Zou , Hai Li , Bin Shao

We develop techniques to probe the dynamics of quantum information, and implement them experimentally on an IBM superconducting quantum processor. Our protocols adapt shadow tomography for the study of time evolution channels rather than of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Max McGinley , Sebastian Leontica , Samuel J. Garratt , Jovan Jovanovic , Steven H. Simon

The spreading of entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of intense interdisciplinary research efforts involving communities with interests ranging from holography to quantum information. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-21 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

The spreading of quantum information in closed systems, often termed scrambling, is a hallmark of many-body quantum dynamics. In open systems, scrambling competes with noise, errors and decoherence. Here, we provide a universal framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Thomas Schuster , Norman Y. Yao