English
Related papers

Related papers: Probing Operator Spreading via Floquet Engineering…

200 papers

The out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) has become a popular probe for quantum information spreading and thermalization. In systems with local interactions, the OTOC defines a characteristic butterfly lightcone that separates a regime not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Cheryne Jonay , Cathy Li , Tianci Zhou

We study transitions between the Floquet states of a periodically driven oscillator caused by the coupling of the oscillator to a thermal reservoir. The analysis refers to the oscillator that is driven close to triple its eigenfrequency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Yaxing Zhang , M. I. Dykman

Operator spreading under stroboscopic time evolution due to a unitary is studied. An operator Krylov space is constructed and related to orthogonal polynomials on a unit circle (OPUC), as well as to the Krylov space of the edge operator of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-19 Hsiu-Chung Yeh , Aditi Mitra

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have emerged as powerful tools for diagnosing quantum chaos and information scrambling. While extensively studied in closed quantum systems, their behavior in dissipative environments remains less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Pablo D. Bergamasco , Gabriel G. Carlo , Alejandro M. F. Rivas

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

Out-of-time-order correlations (OTOCs) characterize the scrambling, or delocalization, of quantum information over all the degrees of freedom of a system and thus have been proposed as a proxy for chaos in quantum systems. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Martin Gärttner , Philipp Hauke , Ana Maria Rey

We present a Floquet scattering theory of electron waiting time distributions in periodically driven quantum conductors. We employ a second-quantized formulation that allows us to relate the waiting time distribution to the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 David Dasenbrook , Christian Flindt , Markus Büttiker

Optimal control is a valuable tool for quantum simulation, allowing for the optimized preparation, manipulation, and measurement of quantum states. Through the optimization of a time-dependent control parameter, target states can be…

Floquet theory is a widely used framework to describe the dynamics of periodically-driven quantum systems. The usual set up to describe such kind of systems is to consider the effect of an external control with a definite period in time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 V. M. Bastidas

We consider the iteration of a unitary operator on a separable Hilbert space and study the spreading rates of the associated discrete-time dynamical system relative to a given orthonormal basis. We prove lower bounds for the transport…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-26 David Damanik , Jake Fillman , Robert Vance

Near-resonant periodic driving of quantum systems promises the implementation of a large variety of novel effective Hamiltonians. The challenge of Floquet engineering lies in the preparation and measurement of the desired quantum state. We…

How does quantum chaos lead to rapid scrambling of information as well as systematic errors across a system when one introduces perturbations in the dynamics? What are its consequences for the reliability of quantum simulations and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Abinash Sahu , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

We introduce a space-time Floquet operator, a generalization of the conventional Floquet operator, that captures the long-time behavior of space-time crystals - systems where spatial and temporal periodicities are intrinsically intertwined.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Abhijeet Melkani , Jayson Paulose

We study the behavior of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) in a non-Hermitian quantum Ising system. We show that the OTOC can diagnose not only the ground state exceptional point, which hosts the Yang-Lee edge singularity, but also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Liang-Jun Zhai , Shuai Yin

Time-periodic quantum systems exhibit a rich variety of far-from-equilibrium phenomena and serve as ideal platforms for quantum engineering and control. However, simulating their dynamics with conventional numerical methods remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Zihao Qi , Yang Peng , Christopher Earls

Probing the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum matter has gained renewed interest owing to immense experimental progress in artifcial quantum systems. Dynamical quantum measures such as the growth of entanglement entropy (EE) and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-04 Pranjal Bordia , Fabien Alet , Pavan Hosur

Understanding quantum chaos is of profound theoretical interest and carries significant implications for various applications, from condensed matter physics to quantum error correction. Recently, out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs) have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Naga Dileep Varikuti

We investigate the wavepacket dynamics in an interacting Floquet system described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a ratchet potential. Under quantum resonance conditions, we thoroughly examine the exotic dynamics of directed current,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Jiejin Shi , Lihao Hua , Wenxuan Song , Wen-Lei Zhao

Quantum-information-inspired experiments in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy may yield a pathway towards determining molecular structure and properties that are otherwise challenging to learn. We measure out-of-time-ordered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 C. Zhang , R. G. Cortiñas , A. H. Karamlou , N. Noll , J. Provazza , J. Bausch , S. Shirobokov , A. White , M. Claassen , S. H. Kang , A. W. Senior , N. Tomašev , J. Gross , K. Lee , T. Schuster , W. J. Huggins , H. Celik , A. Greene , B. Kozlovskii , F. J. H. Heras , A. Bengtsson , A. Grajales Dau , I. Drozdov , B. Ying , W. Livingstone , V. Sivak , N. Yosri , C. Quintana , D. Abanin , A. Abbas , R. Acharya , L. Aghababaie Beni , G. Aigeldinger , R. Alcaraz , S. Alcaraz , T. I. Andersen , M. Ansmann , F. Arute , K. Arya , W. Askew , N. Astrakhantsev , J. Atalaya , B. Ballard , J. C. Bardin , H. Bates , M. Bigdeli Karimi , A. Bilmes , S. Bilodeau , F. Borjans , A. Bourassa , J. Bovaird , D. Bowers , L. Brill , P. Brooks , M. Broughton , D. A. Browne , B. Buchea , B. B. Buckley , T. Burger , B. Burkett , J. Busnaina , N. Bushnell , A. Cabrera , J. Campero , H. -S. Chang , S. Chen , Z. Chen , B. Chiaro , L. -Y. Chih , A. Y. Cleland , B. Cochrane , M. Cockrell , J. Cogan , R. Collins , P. Conner , H. Cook , W. Courtney , A. L. Crook , B. Curtin , S. Das , M. Damyanov , D. M. Debroy , L. De Lorenzo , S. Demura , L. B. De Rose , A. Di Paolo , P. Donohoe , A. Dunsworth , V. Ehimhen , A. Eickbusch , A. M. Elbag , L. Ella , M. Elzouka , D. Enriquez , C. Erickson , V. S. Ferreira , M. Flores , L. Flores Burgos , E. Forati , J. Ford , A. G. Fowler , B. Foxen , M. Fukami , A. W. L. Fung , L. Fuste , S. Ganjam , G. Garcia , C. Garrick , R. Gasca , H. Gehring , R. Geiger , É. Genois , W. Giang , C. Gidney , D. Gilboa , J. E. Goeders , E. C. Gonzales , R. Gosula , S. J. de Graaf , D. Graumann , J. Grebel , J. Guerrero , J. D. Guimarães , T. Ha , S. Habegger , T. Hadick , A. Hadjikhani , M. P. Harrigan , S. D. Harrington , J. Hartshorn , S. Heslin , P. Heu , O. Higgott , R. Hiltermann , J. Hilton , H. -Y. Huang , M. Hucka , C. Hudspeth , A. Huff , E. Jeffrey , S. Jevons , Z. Jiang , X. Jin , C. Joshi , P. Juhas , A. Kabel , H. Kang , K. Kang , R. Kaufman , K. Kechedzhi , T. Khattar , M. Khezri , S. Kim , R. King , O. Kiss , P. V. Klimov , C. M. Knaut , B. Kobrin , F. Kostritsa , J. M. Kreikebaum , R. Kudo , B. Kueffler , A. Kumar , V. D. Kurilovich , V. Kutsko , N. Lacroix , D. Landhuis , T. Lange-Dei , B. W. Langley , P. Laptev , K. -M. Lau , L. Le Guevel , J. Ledford , J. Lee , B. J. Lester , W. Leung , L. Li , W. Y. Li , M. Li , A. T. Lill , M. T. Lloyd , A. Locharla , D. Lundahl , A. Lunt , S. Madhuk , A. Maiti , A. Maloney , S. Mandra , L. S. Martin , O. Martin , E. Mascot , P. Masih Das , D. Maslov , M. Mathews , C. Maxfield , J. R. McClean , M. McEwen , S. Meeks , K. C. Miao , R. Molavi , S. Molina , S. Montazeri , C. Neill , M. Newman , A. Nguyen , M. Nguyen , C. -H. Ni , M. Y. Niu , L. Oas , R. Orosco , K. Ottosson , A. Pagano , S. Peek , D. Peterson , A. Pizzuto , E. Portoles , R. Potter , O. Pritchard , M. Qian , A. Ranadive , M. J. Reagor , R. Resnick , D. M. Rhodes , D. Riley , G. Roberts , R. Rodriguez , E. Ropes , E. Rosenberg , E. Rosenfeld , D. Rosenstock , E. Rossi , D. A. Rower , M. S. Rudolph , R. Salazar , K. Sankaragomathi , M. C. Sarihan , K. J. Satzinger , M. Schaefer , S. Schroeder , H. F. Schurkus , A. Shahingohar , M. J. Shearn , A. Shorter , N. Shutty , V. Shvarts , S. Small , W. C. Smith , D. A. Sobel , R. D. Somma , B. Spells , S. Springer , G. Sterling , J. Suchard , A. Szasz , A. Sztein , M. Taylor , J. P. Thiruraman , D. Thor , D. Timucin , E. Tomita , A. Torres , M. M. Torunbalci , H. Tran , A. Vaishnav , J. Vargas , S. Vdovichev , G. Vidal , C. Vollgraff Heidweiller , M. Voorhees , S. Waltman , J. Waltz , S. X. Wang , B. Ware , J. D. Watson , Y. Wei , T. Weidel , T. White , K. Wong , B. W. K. Woo , C. J. Wood , M. Woodson , C. Xing , Z. J. Yao , P. Yeh , J. Yoo , E. Young , G. Young , A. Zalcman , R. Zhang , Y. Zhang , N. Zhu , N. Zobrist , Z. Zou , G. Bortoli , S. Boixo , J. Chen , Y. Chen , M. Devoret , M. Hansen , C. Jones , J. Kelly , P. Kohli , A. Korotkov , E. Lucero , J. Manyika , Y. Matias , A. Megrant , H. Neven , W. D. Oliver , G. Ramachandran , R. Babbush , V. Smelyanskiy , P. Roushan , D. Kafri , R. Sarpong , D. W. Berry , C. Ramanathan , X. Mi , C. Bengs , A. Ajoy , Z. K. Minev , N. C. Rubin , T. E. O'Brien

Operator growth, or operator spreading, describes the process where a "simple" operator acquires increasing complexity under the Heisenberg time evolution of a chaotic dynamics, therefore has been a key concept in the study of quantum chaos…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-18 Laimei Nie