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We describe general features of thermal correlation functions in quantum systems, with specific focus on the fluctuation-dissipation type relations implied by the KMS condition. These end up relating correlation functions with different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Prithvi Narayan , Amin A. Nizami , Mukund Rangamani

We study out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) in hard-core boson models with short-range and long-range hopping and compare the results to the OTOC in the Luttinger liquid model. For the density operator, a related `commutator function'…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-18 Cheng-Ju Lin , Olexei I. Motrunich

In this study, we explore the interplay between $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry and quantum chaos in a non-Hermitian dynamical system. We consider an extension of the standard diagnostics of quantum chaos, namely the complex level spacing ratio and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Kshitij Sharma , Himanshu Sahu , Subroto Mukerjee

Quantum control of engineered mechanical oscillators can be achieved by coupling the oscillator to an auxiliary degree of freedom, provided that the coherent rate of energy exchange exceeds the decoherence rate of each of the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Verhagen , S. Deléglise , S. Weis , A. Schliesser , T. J. Kippenberg

We propose a system made of three quantum harmonic oscillators as a compact quantum engine for producing mechanical work. The three oscillators play respectively the role of the hot bath, the working medium and the cold bath. The working…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Brendan Reid , Simon Pigeon , Mauro Antezza , Gabriele De Chiara

The scrambling of quantum information in closed many-body systems, as measured by out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs), has lately received considerable attention. Recently, a hydrodynamical description of OTOCs has emerged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann , C. W. von Keyserlingk

A host of dynamical measures of quantum correlations -- out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOC), Loschmidt echo, generalized entanglement and observational entropy -- are useful to infer the underlying classical chaotic dynamics in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sreeram PG , M. S. Santhanam

Out-of-time-order (OTO) operators have recently become popular diagnostics of quantum chaos in many-body systems. The usual way they are introduced is via a quantization of classical Lyapunov growth, which measures the divergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Jordan S. Cotler , Dawei Ding , Geoffrey R. Penington

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

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

We consider a quantum Otto refrigerator cycle of a time-dependent harmonic oscillator. We investigate the coefficient of performance at maximum figure of merit for adiabatic and nonadiabatic frequency modulations. We obtain analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

Recently, the large-order behavior of correlation functions of the $O(N)$-anharmonic oscillator has been analyzed by us in [L. T. Giorgini et el., Phys. Rev. D 101, 125001 (2020)]. Two-loop corrections about the instanton configurations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Ludovico T. Giorgini , Ulrich D. Jentschura , Enrico M. Malatesta , Giorgio Parisi , Tommaso Rizzo , Jean Zinn-Justin

We study the connections between three quantities that can be used as diagnostics for quantum chaos, i.e., the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), Loschmidt echo (LE), and complexity. We generalize the connection between OTOC and LE for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-04 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Wissam Chemissany , S. Shajidul Haque , Bin Yan

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

There is a remarkable interest in the study of Out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs) that goes from many body theory and high energy physics to quantum chaos. In this latter case there is a special focus on the comparison with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Pablo D. Bergamasco , Gabriel G. Carlo , Alejandro M. F. Rivas

Quantum chaos is an intriguing topic and has attracted a great deal of interests in quantum mechanics and black hole physics. Recently, the exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has been proposed to diagnose quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Shangyun Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing , Jieci Wang , Heng Fan

We describe the dynamics of many-body quantum chaotic systems at all time scales by studying the Green's and out-of-time order correlation (OTOC) functions of the four-body, $N$-Majorana Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. By combining the scramblon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-Ping Zheng

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

We use out-of-time-order commutator (OTOC) to diagnose the propagation of chaos in one dimensional long-range power law interaction system. We map the evolution of OTOC to a classical stochastic dynamics problem and use a Brownian quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-12 Xiao Chen , Tianci Zhou

A quantum Otto engine based on a three-dimensional harmonic oscillator is proposed. One of the modes of this oscillator functions as the working fluid, while the other two play the role of baths. The coupling between the working fluid and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Aleksandr Rodin