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The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) of simple harmonic oscillator with extra anharmonic (quartic) interaction are calculated by the second quantization method. We obtain the analytic formulas of spectrum, Fock space states and matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Wung-Hong Huang

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

Quantum information scrambling, typically explored in closed quantum systems, describes the spread of initially localized information throughout a system and can be quantified by measures such as the Loschmidt echo (LE) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yi-Neng Zhou , Chang Liu

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

Periodically kicked Floquet systems such as the kicked rotor are a paradigmatic and illustrative simple model of chaos. For non-integrable quantum dynamics there are several diagnostic measures of the presence of (or the transition to)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Amin A. Nizami

We study the dynamics of a three-mode bosonic system with mode-changing interactions. For large mode occupations the short-time dynamics is well described by classical mean-field equations allowing us to study chaotic dynamics in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Michael Rautenberg , Martin Gärttner

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

The recent advancements in out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) measurements have provided a promising pathway to explore quantum chaos and information scrambling. However, despite recent advancements, their experimental realization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Rohit Sarma Sarkar , Sonjoy Majumder

Out-of-Time-Ordered Commutators (OTOCs), representing a key diagnostic for scrambling as a facet of short-time quantum chaos, have attracted wide-ranging interest, from many-body physics to quantum gravity. By means of a suitable form of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fabian Haneder , Gerrit Caspari , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

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

The Loschmidt echo measures the sensitivity to perturbations of quantum evolutions. We study its short time decay in classically chaotic systems. Using perturbation theory and throwing out all correlation imposed by the initial state and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego A. Wisniacki

Exactly solvable models that exhibit quantum signatures of classical chaos are both rare as well as important - more so in view of the fact that the mechanisms for ergodic behavior and thermalization in isolated quantum systems and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Shruti Dogra , Vaibhav Madhok , Arul Lakshminarayan

This tutorial article introduces the physics of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. The goals are to understand how to precisely quantify the spreading of quantum information and how causality emerges in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Quantum Chaos has originally emerged as the field which studies how the properties of classical chaotic systems arise in their quantum counterparts. The growing interest in quantum many-body systems, with no obvious classical meaning has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Ignacio García-Mata , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Diego A. Wisniacki

OTOC has been used to characterize the information scrambling in quantum systems. Recent studies showed that local conserved quantities play a crucial role in governing the relaxation dynamics of OTOC in non-integrable systems. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Vinitha Balachandran , Dario Poletti

In maximally chaotic quantum systems, a class of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) saturate the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford (MSS) bound on chaos. Recently, it has been shown that the same OTOCs must also obey an infinite set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Sandipan Kundu

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

We study information scrambling, as diagnosed by the out-of-time order correlations (OTOCs), in a system of large spins collectively interacting via spatially inhomogeneous and incommensurate exchange couplings. The model is realisable in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-22 J. Marino , A. M. Rey

We study observation entropy (OE) for the Quantum kicked top (QKT) model, whose classical counterpart possesses different phases: regular, mixed, or chaotic, depending on the strength of the kicking parameter. We show that OE grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Sreeram PG , Ranjan Modak , S. Aravinda

A detailed numerical study reveals that the asymptotic values of the standard deviation-to-mean ratio of the out-of-time-ordered correlator can be successfully used as a measure of the quantum chaoticity of the system. We employ a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Jakub Novotný , Pavel Stránský