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The dynamic region of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) serves as a powerful indicator of chaos in classical and semiclassical systems, capturing the characteristic exponential growth. In contrast, this signature fails to appear in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Gaurav Rudra Malik , S. Aravinda , Sunil Kumar Mishra

Quantum Chaos has originally emerged as the field which studies how the properties of classical chaotic systems arise in their quantum counterparts. The growing interest in quantum many-body systems, with no obvious classical meaning has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Ignacio García-Mata , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Diego A. Wisniacki

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

We conjecture a chaos energy bound, an upper bound on the energy dependence of the Lyapunov exponent for any classical/quantum Hamiltonian mechanics and field theories. The conjecture states that the Lyapunov exponent $\lambda(E)$ grows no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Koji Hashimoto , Keiju Murata , Norihiro Tanahashi , Ryota Watanabe

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), defined via the squared commutator of a time-evolving and a stationary operator, represent observables that provide useful indicators for chaos and the scrambling of information in complex quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Thomas R. Michel , Juan Diego Urbina , Peter Schlagheck

Discretizing the $\lambda \phi^4$ scalar field theory on a lattice yields a system of coupled anharmonic oscillators with quadratic and quartic potentials. We begin by analyzing the two coupled oscillators in the second quantization method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Wung-Hong Huang

Holographic theories with classical gravity duals are maximally chaotic; i.e., they saturate the universal bound on the rate of growth of chaos. It is interesting to ask whether this property is true only for leading large $N$ correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Jan de Boer , Eva Llabrés , Juan F. Pedraza , David Vegh

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is considered as a measure of quantum chaos. We formulate how to calculate the OTOC for quantum mechanics with a general Hamiltonian. We demonstrate explicit calculations of OTOCs for a harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Koji Hashimoto , Keiju Murata , Ryosuke Yoshii

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 out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) of local operators in spatial-temporal invariant or random quantum circuits using light-like generators (LLG) -- many-body operators that exist in and act along the light-like directions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Ke Huang , Xiao Li , David A. Huse , Amos Chan

Using the parametric representation of a chaotic many-body quantum system derived earlier, we calculate explicitly the large-time dependence and asymptotic value of the out-of-time correlator (OTOC) of that system. The dependence on time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Hans A. Weidenmüller

Transient chaos is an ubiquitous phenomenon characterizing the dynamics of phase space trajectories evolving towards a steady state attractor in physical systems as diverse as fluids, chemical reactions and condensed matter systems. Here we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Róbert Sumi , Melinda Varga , Zoltán Toroczkai , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

We study a generalization of the chaos bound that applies to out-of-time-ordered correlators between four different operators. We prove this bound under the same assumptions that apply for the usual chaos bound and extend it to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Gustavo J. Turiaci

By extending methods of arXiv:1503.01409, we investigate the bound on the growth of higher point OTOCs by studying their complex analytical properties. We explore some subtleties in our mathematical investigation, and carefully examine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-17 Pallab Basu , Kasi Jaswin

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

It was proposed recently that the out-of-time-ordered four-point correlator (OTOC) may serve as a useful characteristic of quantum-chaotic behavior, because in the semi-classical limit, $\hbar \to 0$, its rate of exponential growth…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-22 Efim B. Rozenbaum , Sriram Ganeshan , Victor Galitski

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

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a measure of quantum chaos that is being vigorously investigated. Analytically accessible simple models that have long been studied in other contexts could provide insights into such measures.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Arul Lakshminarayan

In this article, we explore dynamical aspects of Out-of-Time-Order correlators (OTOCs) for critical quenches, in which an initial non-trivial state evolves with a CFT-Hamiltonian. At sufficiently large time, global critical quenches exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-31 Suchetan Das , Bobby Ezhuthachan , Arnab Kundu , Somnath Porey , Baishali Roy

We study the quantum chaos in the Bose-Fermi Kondo model in which the impurity spin interacts with conduction electrons and a bosonic bath at the intermediate temperature in the large $N$ limit. The out-of-time-ordered correlator is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Xinloong Han , Zuodong Yu