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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

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

The dynamical generation of complex correlations in quantum many-body systems is of renewed interest in the context of quantum chaos, where the out-of-time-ordered (OTO) correlation function appears as a convenient measure of scrambling. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Adrian Chapman , Akimasa Miyake

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

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 propose novel fast algorithms for optimal transport (OT) utilizing a cyclic symmetry structure of input data. Such OT with cyclic symmetry appears universally in various real-world examples: image processing, urban planning, and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Shoichiro Takeda , Yasunori Akagi , Naoki Marumo , Kenta Niwa

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) describe information scrambling under unitary time evolution, and provide a useful probe of the emergence of quantum chaos. Here we calculate OTOCs for a model of disorder-free localization whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Adam Smith , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner , Dmitry L. Kovrizhin

We study conventional and out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) for a wide variety of transverse field Ising chains: classical and quantum, clean and disordered, and integrable and generic. The setting we consider is that of a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Philippe Suchsland , Benoît Douçot , Vedika Khemani , Roderich Moessner

Out-of-time-ordered (OTO) correlators have developed into a central concept quantifying quantum information transport, information scrambling and quantum chaos. In this work we show that such OTO correlator can also be used to dynamically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-05 Markus Heyl , Frank Pollmann , Balázs Dóra

Exponential growth in the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is an important potential signature of quantum chaos. The OTOC is quite simple to calculate for squeezed states, whose applications are frequently found in quantum optics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

The correspondence principle is a cornerstone in the entire construction of quantum mechanics. This principle has been recently challenged by the observation of an early-time exponential increase of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Jiaozi Wang , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Wen-ge Wang

Out of time ordered correlators (OTOCs) are useful tools for investigating foundational questions such as thermalization in closed quantum systems because they can potentially distinguish between integrable and nonintegrable dynamics. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-04 Jonathon Riddell , Wyatt Kirkby , D. H. J. O'Dell , Erik S. Sørensen

The question of how swiftly entanglement spreads over a system has attracted vital interest. In this regard, the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) is a quantitative measure of the entanglement spreading process. Particular interest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 A. K. Singh , Kushagra Sachan , L. Chotorlishvili , Vipin V. , Sunil K. Mishra

While classical chaos has been successfully characterized with consistent theories and intuitive techniques, such as with the use of Lyapunov exponents, quantum chaos is still poorly understood, as well as its relation with multi-partite…

We study operator dynamics in many-body quantum systems, focusing on generic features of systems that are ergodic, spatially extended, and lack conserved densities. Quantum circuits of various types provide simple models for such systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Takato Yoshimura , Samuel J. Garratt , J. T. Chalker

We study real-time local correlators $\langle\mathcal{O}(\mathbf{x},t)\mathcal{O}(0,0)\rangle$ in chaotic quantum many-body systems. These correlators show universal structure at late times, determined by the dominant operator-space Feynman…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-04 Adam Nahum , Sthitadhi Roy , Sagar Vijay , Tianci Zhou

The study of mathematical connections between operator-theoretic formulations of classical dynamics and quantum mechanics began at least as early as the 1930s in work of Koopman and von Neumann and was developed in later decades by many…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Dimitrios Giannakis , Michael Montgomery

The out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) has become a popular probe for quantum information spreading and thermalization. In systems with local interactions, the OTOC defines a characteristic butterfly lightcone that separates a regime not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Cheryne Jonay , Cathy Li , Tianci Zhou

Information scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC), has attracted much attention, as it sheds new light on chaotic dynamics in quantum many-body systems. The scale invariance, which appears near the quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 Shunsuke Nakamura , Eiki Iyoda , Tetsuo Deguchi , Takahiro Sagawa

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) progressively play an important role in different fields of physics, particularly in the non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we show that OTOCs can be used to prob the Floquet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-11 Sara Zamani , R. Jafari , A. Langari