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We investigate the propagation of local bipartite quantum correlations, along with the tripartite mutual information to characterize the information scrambling through dynamical evolution of spin chains. Starting from an initial state with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Saikat Sur , V. Subrahmanyam

Black holes are conjectured to be the fastest information scramblers, and within holographic duality, the speed of quantum information scrambling of thermal states of quantum systems is at the heart of studies of chaos and black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Fatih Ozaydin , Azmi Ali Altintas , Can Yesilyurt , Cihan Bayındır

The irreversibility and thermalization of many-body systems can be attributed to the erasure of spread non-equilibrium state information by local operations. This thermalization mechanism can be demonstrated by the sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Xue-Yi Guo

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

Non-isolated systems have diverse coupling relations with the external environment. These relations generate complex thermodynamics and information transmission between the system and its environment. The framework depicted in the current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-15 Yang Tian , Pei Sun

We consider the statistical properties of eigenstates of the time-evolution operator in chaotic many-body quantum systems. Our focus is on correlations between eigenstates that are specific to spatially extended systems and that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Dominik Hahn , David J. Luitz , J. T. Chalker

We first propose and study a quantum toy model of black hole dynamics. The model is unitary, displays quantum thermalization, and the Hamiltonian couples every oscillator with every other, a feature intended to emulate the color sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Javier M. Magan

Information dynamics is an emerging description of information processing in complex systems which describes systems in terms of intrinsic computation, identifying computational primitives of information storage and transfer. In this paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-03 Richard E. Spinney , Joseph T. Lizier , Mikhail Prokopenko

In closed systems, dynamical symmetries lead to conservation laws. However, conservation laws are not applicable to open systems that undergo irreversible transformations. More general selection rules are needed to determine whether, given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Borzu Toloui , Gilad Gour

A time-reversed dynamics unwinds information scrambling, which is induced during the time-forward evolution with a complex Hamiltonian. We show that if the scrambled information is, in addition, partially damaged by a local measurement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Bin Yan , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) can be used to probe how quickly a quantum system scrambles information when the initial conditions of the dynamics are changed. In sufficiently large quantum systems, one can extract from the OTOC the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Chenghao Zhang , Peter G. Wolynes , Martin Gruebele

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been extensively used over the last few years to study information scrambling and quantum chaos in many-body systems. In this paper, we extend the formalism of the averaged bipartite OTOC of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Paolo Zanardi , Namit Anand

In recent years, the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) has emerged as a diagnostic tool for information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. Here, we present exact analytical results for the OTOC for a typical pair of random local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Georgios Styliaris , Namit Anand , Paolo Zanardi

Operator scrambling, which governs the spread of quantum information in many-body systems, is a central concept in both condensed matter and high-energy physics. Accurately capturing the emergent properties of these systems remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tianfeng Feng , Yue Cao , Qi Zhao

Quantum operator scrambling describes the spreading of local operators into the whole system in the picture of Heisenberg evolution, which is often quantified by the operator size growth. Here we propose a measure of quantum operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Bin Sun , Geng-Bin Cao , Xi-Dan Hu , Dan-Bo Zhang

In a locally interacting many-body system, two isolated qubits, separated by a large distance $r$, become correlated and entangled with each other at a time $t \ge r/v$. This finite speed $v$ of quantum information scrambling limits quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Chi-Fang Chen , Andrew Lucas

Local excitations as carriers of quantum information spread out in the system in ways governed by the underlying interaction and symmetry. Understanding this phenomenon, also called quantum scrambling, is a prerequisite for employing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-21 M. Sekania , M. Melz , N. Sedlmayr , Sunil K. Mishra , J. Berakdar

This study investigates the dynamics of quantum information and computational resources using a tractable model of coupled harmonic oscillators. We precisely characterize the interplay between mutual information, synchronization, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Reza Pirmoradian , M Reza Tanhayi

We investigate fundamental connections between thermodynamics and quantum information theory. First, we show that the operational framework of thermal operations is nonequivalent to the framework of Gibbs-preserving maps, and we comment on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Philippe Faist

We investigate the delocalization of quantum information in the nonequilibrium dynamics of the $XY$ spin chain with asymptotically decaying interactions $\sim 1/r^{\alpha}$. As a figure of merit, we employ the tripartite mutual information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Darvin Wanisch , Stephan Fritzsche