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We study out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) of the form $\langle\hat A(t)\hat B(0)\hat C(t)\hat D(0)\rangle$ for a quantum system weakly coupled to a dissipative environment. Such an open system may serve as a model of, e.g., a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 S. V. Syzranov , A. V. Gorshkov , V. Galitski

We study numerically and analytically the time dependence and saturation of out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOC) in chaotic few-body quantum-mechanical systems: quantum Henon-Heiles system (weakly chaotic), BMN matrix quantum mechanics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Dragan Marković , Mihailo Čubrović

In the study of quantum chaos, `out of time ordered correlators' (OTOCs) are commonly used to quantify the rate at which quantum information is scrambled. This rate has been conjectured by Maldecena et al. to obey a universal, temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Andrew C. Hunt

The out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) and the Loschmidt echo are two measures that are now widely being explored to characterize sensitivity to perturbations and information scrambling in complex quantum systems. Studying few qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Sreeram PG , Vaibhav Madhok , Arul Lakshminarayan

In this note we study chaos in generic quantum systems with a global symmetry generalizing seminal work [arXiv : 1503.01409] by Maldacena, Shenker and Stanford. We conjecture a bound on instantaneous chaos exponent in a thermodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Indranil Halder

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has emerged as an interesting object in both classical and quantum systems for probing the spatial spread and temporal growth of initially local perturbations in spatially extended chaotic systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-21 Dipankar Roy , David A. Huse , Manas Kulkarni

Out-of-time-order correlators are widely used as an indicator of quantum chaos, but give false-positive quantum Lyapunov exponents for integrable systems with isolated saddle points. We propose an alternative indicator that fixes this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Dmitrii A. Trunin

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are of crucial importance for studying a wide variety of fundamental phenomena in quantum physics, ranging from information scrambling to quantum chaos and many-body localization. However, apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yukai Wu , L. -M. Duan , Dong-Ling Deng

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

Out of time ordered correlator (OTOC) is recently introduced as a powerful diagnose for quantum chaos. To go beyond, here we present an analytical solution of OTOC for a non-chaotic many body localized (MBL) system, showing distinct feature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-30 Yu Chen

We revisit thermal out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in single-particle quantum systems, focusing on magnetic billiards. Using the stadium billiard as a testbed, we compute the thermal OTOC $C_T(t) = -\langle [x(t), p]^2 \rangle_\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Cameron Beetar , Jeff Murugan

$Circuit~ Complexity$, a well known computational technique has recently become the backbone of the physics community to probe the chaotic behaviour and random quantum fluctuations of quantum fields. This paper is devoted to the study of…

Scrambling, the delocalization of initially localized quantum information, is commonly characterized by the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC). Employing the OTOC-Renyi-2 entropy theorem we derive a quantum speed limit for the OTOC,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Devjyoti Tripathy , Juzar Thingna , Sebastian Deffner

It has been conjectured by Maldacena, Shenker, and Stanford [J. High Energy Phys.~08 (2016) 106] that the exponential growth rate of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) $F(t)$ has a universal upper bound $2\pi k_B T/\hbar$. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-08 Naoto Tsuji , Tomohiro Shitara , Masahito Ueda

The correspondence principle is a cornerstone in the entire construction of quantum mechanics. This principle has been recently challenged by the observation of an early-time exponential increase of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Jiaozi Wang , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Wen-ge Wang

Quantum chaos is an intriguing topic and has attracted a great deal of interests in quantum mechanics and black hole physics. Recently, the exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has been proposed to diagnose quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Shangyun Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing , Jieci Wang , Heng Fan

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

Chaotic dynamics in closed local quantum systems scrambles quantum information, which is manifested quantitatively in the decay of the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) of local operators. How is information scrambling affected when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yong-Liang Zhang , Yichen Huang , Xie Chen

Motivated by the famous ink-drop experiment, where ink droplets are used to determine the chaoticity of a fluid, we propose an experimentally implementable method for measuring the scrambling capacity of quantum processes. Here, a system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Magdalini Zonnios , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

We study the connections between three quantities that can be used as diagnostics for quantum chaos, i.e., the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), Loschmidt echo (LE), and complexity. We generalize the connection between OTOC and LE for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-04 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Wissam Chemissany , S. Shajidul Haque , Bin Yan