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We systematically compare Quantum Liang Information Flow (QLIF) a recently proposed causal information measure with the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) as diagnostics of quantum chaos in the one-dimensional mixed-field Ising chain.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Bin Yi

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

In this study, we explore the interplay between $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry and quantum chaos in a non-Hermitian dynamical system. We consider an extension of the standard diagnostics of quantum chaos, namely the complex level spacing ratio and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Kshitij Sharma , Himanshu Sahu , Subroto Mukerjee

We investigate operator delocalization in disordered one-dimensional spin chains by introducing -- besides the already known operator mass -- a complementary measure of operator complexity: the operator length. Like the operator…

We report the discovery of a mixed orientational structure in the quasi-one-dimensional fluid of hard non-spherical bodies with the exact calculation of the thermodynamic and structural quantities using the transfer operator method. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-13 Sakineh Mizani , Martin Oettel , Péter Gurin , Szabolcs Varga

The harmonic oscillator is the paragon of physical models; conceptually and computationally simple, yet rich enough to teach us about physics on scales that span classical mechanics to quantum field theory. This multifaceted nature extends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Wissam Chemissany , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Bin Yan

An extended formulation of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), which quantify noncommutative operator growth and information scrambling in quantum many-body systems, is developed for turbulence dynamics as a representative of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Motoki Nakata

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

Long-lasting quantum exponential spreading was recently found in a simple but very rich dynamical model, namely, an on-resonance double-kicked rotor model [J. Wang, I. Guarneri, G. Casati, and J. B. Gong, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 234104…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-04 Hailong Wang , Jiao Wang , Italo Guarneri , Giulio Casati , Jiangbin Gong

We find that localised perturbations in a chaotic classical many-body system-- the classical Heisenberg We find that the effects of a localised perturbation in a chaotic classical many-body system--the classical Heisenberg chain at infinite…

We demonstrate that a weakly disordered metal with short-range interactions exhibits a transition in the quantum chaotic dynamics when changing the temperature or the interaction strength. For weak interactions, the system displays…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 S. V. Syzranov , A. V. Gorshkov , V. M. Galitski

The spreading of quantum information in closed systems, often termed scrambling, is a hallmark of many-body quantum dynamics. In open systems, scrambling competes with noise, errors and decoherence. Here, we provide a universal framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Thomas Schuster , Norman Y. Yao

The late time behaviour of OTOCs involving generic non-conserved local operators show exponential decay in chaotic many body systems. However, it has been recently observed that for certain holographic theories, the OTOC involving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Karunava Sil , Sourav Maji , Stavros Christodoulou , Abhishek Chowdhury

The out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) is a measure of scrambling of quantum information. Scrambling is intuitively considered to be a significant feature of chaotic systems and thus the OTOC is widely used as a measure of chaos. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Tomás Notenson , Ignacio García-Mata , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

We consider the spreading of a local operator $A$ in one-dimensional systems with Hamiltonian $H$ by calculating the $k$-fold commutator $[H,[H,[...,[H,A]]]]$. We derive bounds for the operator norm of this commutator in free and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-09 A. Weisse , R. Gerstner , J. Sirker

We explore quantum chaos diagnostics of variational circuit states at random parameters and study their correlation with the circuit expressibility and the optimization of control parameters. By measuring the operator spreading coefficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Joonho Kim , Yaron Oz , Dario Rosa

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) are a quantifier of quantum information scrambling and quantum chaos. We propose an efficient quantum algorithm to measure OTOCs that provides an exponential speed-up over the best known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Sreeram PG , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

Quantum dynamics is of fundamental interest and has implications in quantum information processing. The four-point out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is traditionally used to quantify quantum information scrambling under many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Roy J. Garcia , You Zhou , Arthur Jaffe

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

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are an effective tool in characterizing black hole chaos, many-body thermalization and quantum dynamics instability. Previous research findings have shown that the OTOCs' exponential growth (EG) marks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Wen-Lei Zhao , Yue Hu , Zhi Li , Qian Wang