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The delocalization or scrambling of quantum information has emerged as a central ingredient in the understanding of thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems. Recently, significant progress has been made analytically by modeling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-20 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Ramanjit Sohal , Laimei Nie

Scrambling and thermalisation are topics of intense study in both condensed matter and high energy physics. Random unitary dynamics form a simple testing-ground for our theoretical understanding of these processes. In this work, we derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Ewan McCulloch

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

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) are the main tool for probing quantum chaos and scrambling, and have become crucial probes in many areas of quantum computing. However, the measurement of OTOCs is difficult to implement on analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Goksu Can Toga , Siva Darbha , Ermal Rrapaj , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Alexander F. Kemper

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

Information scrambling and the butterfly effect in chaotic quantum systems can be diagnosed by out-of-time-ordered (OTO) commutators through an exponential growth and large late time value. We show that the latter feature shows up in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-18 Balázs Dóra , Roderich Moessner

We propose a new dynamical method to connect equilibrium quantum phase transitions and quantum coherence using out-of-time-order correlations (OTOCs). Adopting the iconic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick and transverse-field Ising models as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Robert J. Lewis-Swan , Sean R. Muleady , Ana Maria Rey

The out-of-time order correlator (OTOC) has recently become relevant in different areas where it has been linked to scrambling of quantum information and entanglement. It has also been proposed as a good indicator of quantum complexity. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Pablo D. Bergamasco , Gabriel G. Carlo , Alejandro M. F. Rivas

Classical arguments for thermalization of isolated systems do not apply in a straightforward way to the quantum case. Recently, there has been interest in diagnostics of quantum chaos in many- body systems. In the classical case, chaos is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Yuri D. Lensky , Xiao-Liang Qi

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

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), recently analyzed in several physical contexts, is studied for low-dimensional chaotic systems through semiclassical expansions and numerical simulations. The semiclassical expansion for the OTOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

Controllable arrays of ions and ultra-cold atoms can simulate complex many-body phenomena and may provide insights into unsolved problems in modern science. To this end, experimentally feasible protocols for quantifying the buildup of…

In this work, we study the pairing Hamiltonian with four particles at finite temperatures on a quantum simulator and a superconducting quantum computer. The excited states are obtained by the variational quantum deflation (VQD). The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Chongji Jiang , Junchen Pei

The commutator between operators at different space and time has been a diagnostic for locality of unitary evolution. Most existing results are either for specific tractable (random) Hamiltonians(Out-of-Time-Order-Correlators calculations),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Chi-Fang Chen

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) being explored as a measure of quantum chaos, is studied here in a coupled bipartite system. Each of the subsystems can be chaotic or regular and lead to very different OTOC growths both before and after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Ravi Prakash , Arul Lakshminarayan

The orientational ordering transition is investigated in the quantum generalization of the anisotropic-planar-rotor model in the low temperature regime. The phase diagram of the model is first analyzed within the mean-field approximation.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Martonak , D. Marx , P. Nielaba

We develop a Lindblad framework for quantum stochastic thermodynamics to study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open quantum systems. Our approach adopts the local quantum detailed balance condition, ensuring thermodynamic consistency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Jin-Fu Chen

We introduce and study a disorder-free version of the quantum breakdown model with all-to-all interactions. The Hamiltonian factorizes into the product of the zero-momentum-mode occupation number and a quadratic Hamiltonian including only…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Kinya Guan , Hosho Katsura

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

Entanglement growth and out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) are used to assess the propagation of information in isolated quantum systems. In this work, using large scale exact time-evolution we show that for weakly disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 David J. Luitz , Yevgeny Bar Lev