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Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as sensitive probes for chaos in interacting quantum systems. They exhibit a characteristic classical exponential growth, but saturate beyond the so-called scrambling or Ehrenfest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-25 Josef Rammensee , Juan-Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

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…

In classical dynamical systems, chaotic behavior is often associated with exponential sensitivity to initial conditions together with global phase-space structure. Translating this geometric concept to the strictly linear framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Wiggins

Thermalization of chaotic quantum many-body systems under unitary time evolution is related to the growth in complexity of initially simple Heisenberg operators. Operator growth is a manifestation of information scrambling and can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have become established as a tool to characterise quantum information dynamics and thermalisation in interacting quantum many-body systems. It was recently argued that the expected exponential growth of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-21 Marlon Brenes , Silvia Pappalardi , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold , Alessandro Silva

We investigate the dynamics of quantum scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), in a non-Hermitian quantum kicked rotor subjected to quasi-periodical modulation in kicking potential. Quasi-periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Liang Huo , Han Ke , Wen-Lei Zhao

The out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed and widely used recently as a tool to define and describe many-body quantum chaos. Here, we develop the Keldysh non-linear sigma model technique to calculate these correlators…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-16 Yunxiang Liao , Victor Galitski

Motivated by the question of whether all fast scramblers are holographically dual to quantum gravity, we study the dynamics of a non-integrable spin chain model composed of two ingredients - a nearest neighbor Ising coupling, and an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-05 Zehan Li , Sayan Choudhury , W. Vincent Liu

Out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) functions provide a powerful theoretical tool for diagnosing chaos and the scrambling of information in strongly-interacting, quantum systems. However, their direct and unambiguous experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Beni Yoshida , Norman Y. Yao

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) in the Ising Floquet system, that can be both integrable and nonintegrable is studied. Instead of localized spin observables, we study contiguous symmetric blocks of spins or random operators localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Arul Lakshminarayan , Sunil Kumar Mishra

Quantum chaos refers to signatures of classical chaos found in the quantum domain. Recently, it has become common to equate the exponential behavior of out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) with quantum chaos. The quantum-classical…

Motivated by the famous ink-drop experiment, where ink droplets are used to determine the chaoticity of a fluid, we propose an experimentally implementable method for measuring the scrambling capacity of quantum processes. Here, a system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Magdalini Zonnios , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

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

Out-of-time-ordered-correlators (OTOCs) have been suggested as a means to diagnose chaotic behavior in quantum mechanical systems. Recently, it was found that OTOCs display exponential growth for the inverted quantum harmonic oscillator,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Paul Romatschke

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) being explored as a measure of quantum chaos, is studied here in a coupled bipartite system. Each of the subsystems can be chaotic or regular and lead to very different OTOC growths both before and after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Ravi Prakash , Arul Lakshminarayan

Information scrambling, which is the spread of local information through a system's many-body degrees of freedom, is an intrinsic feature of many-body dynamics. In quantum systems, the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) quantifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Andreas Elben , Lata Kh Joshi , Torsten V. Zache

We study operator growth in a bipartite kicked coupled tops (KCT) system using out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), which quantify ``information scrambling" due to chaotic dynamics and serve as a quantum analog of classical Lyapunov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

Quantum scrambling is the dispersal of local information into many-body quantum entanglements and correlations distributed throughout the entire system. This concept underlies the dynamics of thermalization in closed quantum systems, and…

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), defined via the squared commutator of a time-evolving and a stationary operator, represent observables that provide useful indicators for chaos and the scrambling of information in complex quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Thomas R. Michel , Juan Diego Urbina , Peter Schlagheck

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have been extensively used as a major tool for exploring quantum chaos and also recently, there has been a classical analogue. Studies have been limited to closed systems. In this work, we probe an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Amit Kumar Chatterjee , Anupam Kundu , Manas Kulkarni