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We investigate the quantitative relationship between operator spreading and classical information propagation in quantum systems. Focusing on a bi-partite quantum channel, we derive new upper and lower bounds on the Holevo capacity, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Cheng Shang , Zhi-Guang Lu , Hayato Kinkawa , Tomotaka Kuwahara

Recent advances in quantum information science have shed light on the intricate dynamics of quantum many-body systems, for which quantum information scrambling is a perfect example. Motivated by considerations of the thermodynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

In this letter we propose a general principle for how to build up a quantum neural network with high learning efficiency. Our stratagem is based on the equivalence between extracting information from input state to readout qubit and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-08 Yadong Wu , Pengfei Zhang , Hui Zhai

We develop techniques to probe the dynamics of quantum information, and implement them experimentally on an IBM superconducting quantum processor. Our protocols adapt shadow tomography for the study of time evolution channels rather than of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Max McGinley , Sebastian Leontica , Samuel J. Garratt , Jovan Jovanovic , Steven H. Simon

Quantum scrambling describes the spreading of local information into many degrees of freedom in quantum systems. This provides the conceptual connection among diverse phenomena ranging from thermalizing quantum dynamics to models of black…

We study the scrambling of local quantum information in chaotic many-body systems in the presence of a locally conserved quantity like charge or energy that moves diffusively. The interplay between conservation laws and scrambling sheds…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-13 Vedika Khemani , Ashvin Vishwanath , D. A. Huse

Thermalization of chaotic quantum many-body systems under unitary time evolution is related to the growth in complexity of initially simple Heisenberg operators. Operator growth is a manifestation of information scrambling and can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Out-of-time ordered (OTO) correlation functions describe scrambling of information in correlated quantum matter. They are of particular interest in incoherent quantum systems lacking well defined quasi-particles. Thus far, it is largely…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-06 A. Bohrdt , C. B. Mendl , M. Endres , M. Knap

We characterize the information dynamics of strongly disordered systems using a combination of analytics, exact diagonalization, and matrix product operator simulations. More specifically, we study the spreading of quantum information in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-08 M. C. Bañuls , N. Y. Yao , S. Choi , M. D. Lukin , J. I. Cirac

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

Operator growth, or operator spreading, describes the process where a "simple" operator acquires increasing complexity under the Heisenberg time evolution of a chaotic dynamics, therefore has been a key concept in the study of quantum chaos…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-18 Laimei Nie

The study of information scrambling in many-body systems has sharpened our understanding of quantum chaos, complexity and gravity. Here, we extend the framework for exploring information scrambling to infinite dimensional continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Quntao Zhuang , Thomas Schuster , Beni Yoshida , Norman Y. Yao

The theory of quantum information provides a common language which links disciplines ranging from cosmology to condensed-matter physics. For example, the delocalization of quantum information in strongly-interacting many-body systems, known…

Local excitations as carriers of quantum information spread out in the system in ways governed by the underlying interaction and symmetry. Understanding this phenomenon, also called quantum scrambling, is a prerequisite for employing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-21 M. Sekania , M. Melz , N. Sedlmayr , Sunil K. Mishra , J. Berakdar

We investigate the dynamics of quantum scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), in a non-Hermitian quantum kicked rotor subjected to quasi-periodical modulation in kicking potential. Quasi-periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Liang Huo , Han Ke , Wen-Lei Zhao

A fundamental principle of chaotic quantum dynamics is that local subsystems eventually approach a thermal equilibrium state. Large subsystems thermalize slower: their approach to equilibrium is limited by the hydrodynamic build-up of…

For "static memory materials" the bulk properties depend on boundary conditions. Such materials can be realized by classical statistical systems which admit no unique equilibrium state. We describe the propagation of information from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-23 C. Wetterich

Understanding various phenomena in non-equilibrium dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems, such as quantum thermalization, information scrambling, and nonergodic dynamics, is a crucial for modern physics. Using a ladder-type…

We formulate a kinetic theory of quantum information scrambling in the context of a paradigmatic model of interacting electrons in the vicinity of a superconducting phase transition. We carefully derive a set of coupled partial differential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-05 Camille Aron , Eric Brunet , Aditi Mitra

The speed of information propagation is finite in quantum systems with local interactions. In many such systems, local operators spread ballistically in time and can be characterized by a "butterfly velocity", which can be measured via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-27 Yong-Liang Zhang , Vedika Khemani