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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

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

Efficient characterization of highly entangled multi-particle systems is an outstanding challenge in quantum science. Recent developments have shown that a modest number of randomized measurements suffices to learn many properties of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Katherine Van Kirk , Jordan Cotler , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Mikhail D. Lukin

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

This letter reports the findings of the late time behavior of the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) via a quantum kicked rotor model with $\cal{PT}$-symmetric driving potential. An analytical expression of the OTOCs' quadratic growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Wen-Lei Zhao

We present exact results for the classical version of the Out-of-Time-Order Commutator (OTOC) for a family of power-law models consisting of $N$ particles in one dimension and confined by an external harmonic potential. These particles are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-29 Bhanu Kiran S. , David A. Huse , Manas Kulkarni

The metal-insulator transition (MIT), which includes Anderson localization and Mott insulators as extreme regimes, has received renewed interest as the many-body effects often constitute a limitation for the handling of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Fabricio S. Lozano-Negro , Pablo R. Zangara , Horacio M. Pastawski

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

We characterize the information dynamics of strongly disordered systems using a combination of analytics, exact diagonalization, and matrix product operator simulations. More specifically, we study the spreading of quantum information in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-08 M. C. Bañuls , N. Y. Yao , S. Choi , M. D. Lukin , J. I. Cirac

The out-of-time order correlator (OTOC) has been widely studied in closed quantum systems. However, there are very few studies for open systems and they are mainly focused on isolating the effects of scrambling from those of decoherence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Pablo D. Bergamasco , Gabriel G. Carlo , Alejandro M. F. Rivas

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-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

One of the most important tasks in modern quantum science is to coherently control and entangle many-body systems, and to subsequently use these systems to realize powerful quantum technologies such as quantum-enhanced sensors. However,…

We study conventional and out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) for a wide variety of transverse field Ising chains: classical and quantum, clean and disordered, and integrable and generic. The setting we consider is that of a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Philippe Suchsland , Benoît Douçot , Vedika Khemani , Roderich Moessner

Information scrambling and the butterfly effect in chaotic quantum systems can be diagnosed by out-of-time-ordered (OTO) commutators through an exponential growth and large late time value. We show that the latter feature shows up in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-18 Balázs Dóra , Roderich Moessner

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is considered as a measure of quantum chaos. We formulate how to calculate the OTOC for quantum mechanics with a general Hamiltonian. We demonstrate explicit calculations of OTOCs for a harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Koji Hashimoto , Keiju Murata , Ryosuke Yoshii

Nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems is challenging for classical computing, providing opportunities for demonstrating practical quantum computational advantage with analogue quantum simulators. Owing to the intimate…

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

Using the parametric representation of a chaotic many-body quantum system derived earlier, we calculate explicitly the large-time dependence and asymptotic value of the out-of-time correlator (OTOC) of that system. The dependence on time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Hans A. Weidenmüller

The Out-of-Time-Order Correlator (OTOC) is a standard algebraic diagnostic of quantum information scrambling, but it offers limited direct geometric intuition. In this note, we propose a Bohmian, trajectory-based framework for constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Wiggins