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We describe the dynamics of many-body quantum chaotic systems at all time scales by studying the Green's and out-of-time order correlation (OTOC) functions of the four-body, $N$-Majorana Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. By combining the scramblon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-Ping Zheng

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) describe information scrambling under unitary time evolution, and provide a useful probe of the emergence of quantum chaos. Here we calculate OTOCs for a model of disorder-free localization whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Adam Smith , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner , Dmitry L. Kovrizhin

We show that out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) constitute a probe for Local-Operator Entanglement (LOE). There is strong evidence that a volumetric growth of LOE is a faithful dynamical indicator of quantum chaos, while OTOC decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Neil Dowling , Pavel Kos , Kavan Modi

As the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is a measure of quantum chaos and an important observable in the context of AdS/CFT, we investigate the OTOC of holographic Skyrmion which is described by an analytical quantum mechanical system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Si-wen Li , Yi-peng Zhang , Hao-qian Li

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are a key observable in a wide range of interconnected fields including many-body physics, quantum information science, and quantum gravity. Measuring OTOCs using near-term quantum simulators will…

This letter reports the findings of the late time behavior of the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) via a quantum kicked rotor model with $\cal{PT}$-symmetric driving potential. An analytical expression of the OTOCs' quadratic growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Wen-Lei Zhao

We holographically study quantum chaos in hyperscaling-violating Lifshitz (HVL) theories (with charge). Specifically, we present a detailed computation of the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) via shockwave analysis in the bulk HVL…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Nikesh Lilani

The relaxation of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) has been studied as a mean to characterize the scrambling properties of a quantum system. We show that the presence of local conserved quantities typically results in, at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-22 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Dario Poletti

Operator spreading under unitary time evolution has attracted a lot of attention recently, as a way to probe many-body quantum chaos. While quantities such as out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) do distinguish interacting from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

The symmetry of chaotic systems plays a pivotal role in determining the universality class of spectral statistics and dynamical behaviors, which can be described within the framework of random matrix theory. Understanding the influence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Fuxing Chen , Ping Fang

Non-KAM (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) systems, when perturbed by weak time-dependent fields, offer a fast route to classical chaos through an abrupt breaking of invariant phase space tori. In this work, we employ out-of-time-order correlators…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-10 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Abinash Sahu , Arul Lakshminarayan , Vaibhav Madhok

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

Out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs) and their higher-order generalizations present important probes of quantum information dynamics and scrambling. We introduce a solvable many-body quantum model, which we term boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Felix Fritzsch , Gabriel O. Alves , Michael A. Rampp , Pieter W. Claeys

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 order correlator (OTOC) has been widely studied in closed quantum systems. However, there are very few studies for open systems and they are mainly focused on isolating the effects of scrambling from those of decoherence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Pablo D. Bergamasco , Gabriel G. Carlo , Alejandro M. F. Rivas

We extend the concept of operator charge in the context of an abelian U (1) symmetry and apply this framework to symmetry-preserving matrix product operators (MPOs), enabling the description of operators projected onto specific sectors of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-08 Martina Gisti , David J. Luitz , Maxime Debertolis

Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) quantify quantum information scrambling, but their connection to localized phase-space structures, such as chemical transition states, requires formal development. We derive a leading-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Stephen Wiggins

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) diagnoses quantum chaos and the scrambling of quantum information via the spread of entanglement. The OTOC encodes forward and reverse evolutions and has deep connections with the flow of time. So…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Nicole Yunger Halpern

Fast scrambling, quantified by the exponential initial growth of Out-of-Time-Ordered-Correlators (OTOCs), is the ability to efficiently spread quantum correlations among the degrees of freedom of interacting systems, and constitutes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Felix Meier , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Daniel Waltner , Thomas Guhr

Out-of-Time-Order-Correlator (OTOC) and Loschmidt Echo (LE) are commonly regarded as diagnostic tools for chaos, although they may yield misleading results because of various other factors. Previous studies have concluded that OTOC shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Pranaya Pratik Das , Biplab Ganguli
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