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Scrambling, a process in which quantum information spreads over a complex quantum system becoming inaccessible to simple probes, happens in generic chaotic quantum many-body systems, ranging from spin chains, to metals, even to black holes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Out of time ordered correlator (OTOC) is recently introduced as a powerful diagnose for quantum chaos. To go beyond, here we present an analytical solution of OTOC for a non-chaotic many body localized (MBL) system, showing distinct feature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-30 Yu Chen

Out-of time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have recently attracted significant attention from the physics of many-body systems, to quantum black-holes, with an exponential growth of the OTOC indicating quantum chaos. Here we consider OTOC in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , Arul Lakshminarayan

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

As a measure of information scrambling and quantum chaos, out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) plays more and more important role in many different fields of physics. In this work, we verify that the OTOC can also be used as a prober of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Qian Wang , Francisco Pérez-Bernal

The vast majority of dynamical systems in classical physics are chaotic and exhibit the butterfly effect: a minute change in initial conditions can soon have exponentially large effects elsewhere. But this phenomenon is difficult to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Efim B. Rozenbaum , Leonid A. Bunimovich , Victor Galitski

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have proven to be a useful tool for studying thermalisation in quantum systems. In particular, the exponential growth of OTOCS, or scrambling, is sometimes taken as an indicator of chaos in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 R. A. Kidd , A. Safavi-Naini , J. F. Corney

The underlying physical concept of computing out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) is a significant new tool within the framework of quantum field theory, which now-a-days is treated as a measure of random fluctuations. In this paper, by…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Sayantan Choudhury

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) quantifies information scrambling in quantum systems and serves as a key diagnostic of quantum chaos. In one-body systems with a classical counterpart, the relaxation of the OTOC is governed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jerónimo Duarte , Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

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

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 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

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

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have emerged as powerful tools for diagnosing quantum chaos and information scrambling. While extensively studied in closed quantum systems, their behavior in dissipative environments remains less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Pablo D. Bergamasco , Gabriel G. Carlo , Alejandro M. F. Rivas

We study the behavior of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) in a non-Hermitian quantum Ising system. We show that the OTOC can diagnose not only the ground state exceptional point, which hosts the Yang-Lee edge singularity, but also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Liang-Jun Zhai , Shuai Yin

We propose a new dynamical method to connect equilibrium quantum phase transitions and quantum coherence using out-of-time-order correlations (OTOCs). Adopting the iconic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick and transverse-field Ising models as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Robert J. Lewis-Swan , Sean R. Muleady , Ana Maria Rey

Generic systems are associated with a mixed classical phase space.The question of the properties of the eigenstates for these systems remains less known, although it plays a key role for understanding several important quantum phenomena…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Qian Wang , Marko Robnik

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as a probe of chaos in quantum mechanics, on the basis of their short-time exponential growth found in some particular set-ups. However, it has been seen that this behavior is not…

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

In semi-classical systems, the exponential growth of the out-of-timeorder correlator (OTOC) is believed to be the hallmark of quantum chaos. However,on several occasions, it has been argued that, even in integrable systems, OTOC can grow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Xiangyu Cao , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak