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The vast majority of dynamical systems in classical physics are chaotic and exhibit the butterfly effect: a minute change in initial conditions can soon have exponentially large effects elsewhere. But this phenomenon is difficult to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Efim B. Rozenbaum , Leonid A. Bunimovich , Victor Galitski

The quantum-to-classical correspondence is often quantified in dynamics by a quantity referred to as the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC). In chaotic systems, the OTOC is expected to grow exponentially at early time, characteristic of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Hui Li , Eli Halperin , Reuben R. W. Wang , John L. Bohn

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) quantifies information scrambling in quantum systems and serves as a key diagnostic of quantum chaos. In one-body systems with a classical counterpart, the relaxation of the OTOC is governed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jerónimo Duarte , Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

We propose a new diagnostic for quantum chaos. We show that time evolution of complexity for a particular type of target state can provide equivalent information about the classical Lyapunov exponent and scrambling time as out-of-time-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Tibra Ali , Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Eugene H. Kim , Nathan Moynihan , Jeff Murugan

We study the quantum Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_L$ in theories with spacetime-independent disorder. We first derive self-consistency equations for the two- and four-point functions for products of $N$ models coupled by disorder at large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Micha Berkooz , Adar Sharon , Navot Silberstein , Erez Y. Urbach

Nonlinear networks with time-delayed couplings may show strong and weak chaos, depending on the scaling of their Lyapunov exponent with the delay time. We study strong and weak chaos for semiconductor lasers, either with time-delayed…

We predict that continuously monitored quantum dynamics can be chaotic. The optimal paths between past and future boundary conditions can diverge exponentially in time when there is time-dependent evolution and continuous weak monitoring.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Philippe Lewalle , John Steinmetz , Andrew N. Jordan

We present a method to calculate an upper bound on the generation of entanglement in any spin system using the Fannes-Audenaert inequality for the von Neumann entropy. Our method not only is useful for efficiently estimating entanglement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-08 Meenu Kumari , Shohini Ghose

Fast scrambling of quantum correlations, reflected by the exponential growth of Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) on short pre-Ehrenfest time scales, is commonly considered as a major quantum signature of unstable dynamics in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Mathias Steinhuber , Peter Schlagheck , Juan-Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

The sensitivity of long-time averages of a hyperbolic chaotic system to parameter perturbations can be determined using the shadowing direction, the uniformly-bounded-in-time solution of the sensitivity equations. Although its existence is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Davide Lasagna , Ati Sharma , Johan Meyers

We study the relationship between quantum chaos and pseudorandomness by developing probes of unitary design. A natural probe of randomness is the "frame potential," which is minimized by unitary $k$-designs and measures the $2$-norm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Daniel A. Roberts , Beni Yoshida

We systematically compare Quantum Liang Information Flow (QLIF) a recently proposed causal information measure with the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) as diagnostics of quantum chaos in the one-dimensional mixed-field Ising chain.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Bin Yi

Scrambling, a process in which quantum information spreads over a complex quantum system becoming inaccessible to simple probes, happens in generic chaotic quantum many-body systems, ranging from spin chains, to metals, even to black holes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

We calculate the third-order out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) of a simple harmonic oscillator with an additional quartic interaction using the second quantization method. We obtain analytic relations for the spectrum, Fock space states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Wung-Hong Huang

Out of time ordered correlators (OTOCs) are useful tools for investigating foundational questions such as thermalization in closed quantum systems because they can potentially distinguish between integrable and nonintegrable dynamics. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-04 Jonathon Riddell , Wyatt Kirkby , D. H. J. O'Dell , Erik S. Sørensen

In non-maximally quantum chaotic systems, the exponential behavior of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) results from summing over exchanges of an infinite tower of higher "spin" operators. We construct an effective field theory (EFT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Ping Gao , Hong Liu

The relation between the onset of chaos and critical phenomena, like Quantum Phase Transitions (QPT) and Excited-State Quantum Phase transitions (ESQPT), is analyzed for atom-field systems. While it has been speculated that the onset of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-12 J. Chávez-Carlos , M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , S. Lerma-Hernández , J. G. Hirsch

We consider the time evolution of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) of two general observables $A$ and $B$ in a mean field chaotic quantum system described by a random Wigner matrix as its Hamiltonian. We rigorously identify three…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Giorgio Cipolloni , László Erdős , Joscha Henheik

The emergence of the arrow of time in quantum many-body systems stems from the inherent tendency of Hamiltonian evolution to scramble quantum information and increase entanglement. While, in principle, one might counteract this temporal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Yu-Chen Li , Tian-Gang Zhou , Shengyu Zhang , Ze Wu , Liqiang Zhao , Haochuan Yin , Xiaoxue An , Hui Zhai , Pengfei Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

We show that the most important measures of quantum chaos like frame potentials, scrambling, Loschmidt echo, and out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) can be described by the unified framework of the isospectral twirling, namely the Haar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Lorenzo Leone , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Alioscia Hamma