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The complexity of quantum states under dynamical evolution can be investigated by studying the spread with time of the state over a pre-defined basis. It is known that this complexity is minimised by choosing the Krylov basis, thus defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Amin A. Nizami , Ankit W. Shrestha

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) describe information scrambling under unitary time evolution, and provide a useful probe of the emergence of quantum chaos. Here we calculate OTOCs for a model of disorder-free localization whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Adam Smith , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner , Dmitry L. Kovrizhin

Operator scrambling denotes the evolution of a simple operator into a complicated one (in the Heisenberg picture), which characterizes quantum chaos in many-body systems. More specifically, a simple operator evolves into a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 Xiao-Liang Qi , Emily J. Davis , Avikar Periwal , Monika Schleier-Smith

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

Dual-unitary circuits are paradigmatic examples of exactly solvable yet chaotic quantum many-body systems, but solvability naturally goes along with a degree of non-generic behaviour. By investigating the effect of weakly broken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Michael A. Rampp , Roderich Moessner , Pieter W. Claeys

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

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC), vigorously being explored as a measure of quantum chaos and information scrambling, is studied here in the natural and simplest multi-particle context of bipartite systems. We show that two strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Ravi Prakash , Arul Lakshminarayan

Recently, the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has gained much attention as an indicator of quantum chaos. In the semi-classical limit, its exponential growth rate resembles the classical Lyapunov exponent. The quantum-classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

The exponential growth of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has been proposed as a quantum signature of classical chaos. The growth rate is expected to coincide with the classical Lyapunov exponent. This quantum-classical…

We establish that there are properties of quantum many-body dynamics which are efficiently learnable if we are given access to out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), but which require exponentially many operations in the system size if we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Jordan Cotler , Thomas Schuster , Masoud Mohseni

The out of time order correlator (OTOC) serves as a powerful tool for investigating quantum information spreading and chaos in complex systems. We present a method employing non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) and coherent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-20 Chakradhar Rangi , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

We study many-body chaos in a (2+1)D relativistic scalar field theory at high temperatures in the classical statistical approximation, which captures the quantum critical regime and the thermal phase transition from an ordered to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-21 Alexander Schuckert , Michael Knap

The breakdown of Lieb-Robinson bounds in local, non-Hermitian quantum systems opens up the possibility for a rich landscape of quantum many-body phenomenology. We elucidate this by studying information scrambling and quantum chaos in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Brian Barch , Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor Rieffel , Paolo Zanardi

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have received considerable recent attention as qualitative witnesses of information scrambling in many-body quantum systems. Theoretical discussions of OTOCs typically focus on closed systems, raising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 José Raúl González Alonso , Nicole Yunger Halpern , Justin Dressel

Recent studies of out-of-time ordered thermal correlation functions (OTOC) in holographic systems and in solvable models such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model have yielded new insights into manifestations of many-body chaos. So far the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Mike Blake , Hyunseok Lee , Hong Liu

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have been proposed to characterize quantum chaos in generic systems. However, they can also show interesting behavior in integrable models, resembling the OTOC in chaotic systems in some aspects. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Cheng-Ju Lin , Olexei I. Motrunich

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

Exponential growth in the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is an important potential signature of quantum chaos. The OTOC is quite simple to calculate for squeezed states, whose applications are frequently found in quantum optics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

We study real-time local correlators $\langle\mathcal{O}(\mathbf{x},t)\mathcal{O}(0,0)\rangle$ in chaotic quantum many-body systems. These correlators show universal structure at late times, determined by the dominant operator-space Feynman…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-04 Adam Nahum , Sthitadhi Roy , Sagar Vijay , Tianci Zhou

The spreading of entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of intense interdisciplinary research efforts involving communities with interests ranging from holography to quantum information. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-21 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen