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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

In classical dynamical systems, chaotic behavior is often associated with exponential sensitivity to initial conditions together with global phase-space structure. Translating this geometric concept to the strictly linear framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Wiggins

We study quantum information scrambling in a random unitary circuit that exchanges qubits with an environment at a rate $p$. As a result, initially localized quantum information not only spreads within the system, but also spills into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Zack Weinstein , Shane P. Kelly , Jamir Marino , Ehud Altman

Out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs) help characterize the scrambling of quantum information and are usually studied in the context of nonintegrable systems. In this work, we compare the relaxation dynamics of OTOCs in interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-29 Vinitha Balachandran , Lea F. Santos , Marcos Rigol , Dario Poletti

Floquet engineering provides an optical means to manipulate electronic bandstructures, however, carriers excited by the pump field can lead to an effective heating, and can obscure measurement of the band changes. A recent demonstration of…

We study operator scrambling in quantum circuits built from `super-Clifford' gates. For such circuits it was established in arXiv:2002.12824 that the time evolution of operator entanglement for a large class of many-body operators can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Mike Blake , Noah Linden , Anthony P. Thompson

We propose a new dynamical method to connect equilibrium quantum phase transitions and quantum coherence using out-of-time-order correlations (OTOCs). Adopting the iconic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick and transverse-field Ising models as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Robert J. Lewis-Swan , Sean R. Muleady , Ana Maria Rey

The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of generic interacting quantum systems is characterized by a handful of universal guiding principles, among them the ballistic spreading of initially local operators. Here, we show that in certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Johannes Feldmeier , Michael Knap

We study the scrambling of local quantum information in chaotic many-body systems in the presence of a locally conserved quantity like charge or energy that moves diffusively. The interplay between conservation laws and scrambling sheds…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-13 Vedika Khemani , Ashvin Vishwanath , D. A. Huse

A primer on the Floquet theory of periodically time-dependent quantum systems is provided, and it is shown how to apply this framework for computing the quasienergy band structure governing the dynamics of ultracold atoms in driven optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Martin Holthaus

Entanglement growth and out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) are used to assess the propagation of information in isolated quantum systems. In this work, using large scale exact time-evolution we show that for weakly disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 David J. Luitz , Yevgeny Bar Lev

The spatiotemporal evolution of the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) measures the propagation and scrambling of local quantum information. For the transverse field Ising model with open boundaries, the local operator $\sigma^{x}$ shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-12 Samudra Sur , Diptiman Sen

We review different tensor network approaches to study the spreading of operators in generic nonintegrable quantum systems. As a common ground to all methods, we quantify this spreading by means of the Frobenius norm of the commutator of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Kévin Hémery , Frank Pollmann , David J. Luitz

Floquet quantum circuits are able to realise a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum states, exhibiting quantum chaos, topological order and localisation. In this work, we investigate the stability of operator localisation and emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Marcell D. Kovács , Christopher J. Turner , Lluis Masanes , Arijeet Pal

Scrambling and thermalisation are topics of intense study in both condensed matter and high energy physics. Random unitary dynamics form a simple testing-ground for our theoretical understanding of these processes. In this work, we derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Ewan McCulloch

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

We consider a quantum system periodically driven with a strength which varies slowly on the scale of the driving period. The analysis is based on a general formulation of the Floquet theory relying on the extended Hilbert space. It is shown…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-22 Viktor Novičenko , Egidijus Anisimovas , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

We investigate both analytically and numerically the dynamics of quantum scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), in a non-Hermitian quantum kicked rotor subject to quantum resonance conditions. Analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Wen-Lei Zhao , Jie Liu

We adopt a continuous weak measurement tomography protocol to explore the signatures of chaos in the quantum system(s). We generate the measurement record as a series of expectation values of an observable evolving under the desired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Abinash Sahu