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We analytically study the Out-of-Time-Order Correlation functions (OTOC) for two spatially separated primary operators in two-dimensional unitary minimal models. Besides giving general arguments using the conformal symmetry, we also use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-20 Ruihua Fan

Out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), been suggested as a measure of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems, has received enormous attention recently. The experimental measurement of OTOC is quite challenging. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Xinfang Nie , Ze Zhang , Xiuzhu Zhao , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

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

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) are considered to be a promising tool to characterize chaos in quantum systems. In this paper we study OTOC in XY model. With the presence of anisotropic parameter $\gamma$ and external magnetic field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jiahui Bao , Cheng-Yong Zhang

Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) serve as a proxy for quantum information scrambling, which refers to the process where information stored locally disperses across the many-body degrees of freedom in a quantum system, rendering it…

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

We present a protocol to experimentally measure the infinite-temperature out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) -- which is a probe of quantum information scrambling in a system -- for systems with a Hamiltonian which has either a chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-29 Bhuvanesh Sundar

We establish that there are properties of quantum many-body dynamics which are efficiently learnable if we are given access to out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), but which require exponentially many operations in the system size if we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Jordan Cotler , Thomas Schuster , Masoud Mohseni

We study numerically and analytically the time dependence and saturation of out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOC) in chaotic few-body quantum-mechanical systems: quantum Henon-Heiles system (weakly chaotic), BMN matrix quantum mechanics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Dragan Marković , Mihailo Čubrović

We study the finite-temperature scrambling behavior of a quantum system described by a Hamiltonian chosen from a random matrix ensemble. This effectively (0+1)-dimensional model admits an exact calculation of various ensemble-averaged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-23 Sagar Vijay , Ashvin Vishwanath

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) diagnoses quantum chaos and the scrambling of quantum information via the spread of entanglement. The OTOC encodes forward and reverse evolutions and has deep connections with the flow of time. So…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Nicole Yunger Halpern

We elucidate the relation between out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) and quantum phase transitions via analytically studying the OTOC dynamics in a degenerate spectrum. Our method points to key ingredients to dynamically detect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Ceren B. Dağ , Kai Sun , L. -M. Duan

We provide a detailed examination of a thermal out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) growing exponentially in time in systems without chaos. The system is a one-dimensional quantum mechanics with a potential whose part is an inverted harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Koji Hashimoto , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Keun-Young Kim , Ryota Watanabe

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

We study out of time ordered correlators (OTOC) in a free fermionic model with a quasi-periodic potential. This model is equivalent to the Aubry-Andr\'e model and features a phase transition from an extended phase to a localized phase at a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-28 Jonathon Riddell , Erik S. Sørensen

The out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) function is an important new probe in quantum field theory which is treated as a significant measure of random quantum correlations. In this paper, with the slogan "Cosmology meets Condensed Matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-17 Sayantan Choudhury

The out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) and the Loschmidt echo are two measures that are now widely being explored to characterize sensitivity to perturbations and information scrambling in complex quantum systems. Studying few qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Sreeram PG , Vaibhav Madhok , Arul Lakshminarayan

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

It was proposed recently that the out-of-time-ordered four-point correlator (OTOC) may serve as a useful characteristic of quantum-chaotic behavior, because in the semi-classical limit, $\hbar \to 0$, its rate of exponential growth…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-22 Efim B. Rozenbaum , Sriram Ganeshan , Victor Galitski

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