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Krylov complexity has recently emerged as a new paradigm to characterize quantum chaos in many-body systems. However, which features of Krylov complexity are prerogative of quantum chaotic systems and how they relate to more standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

Krylov complexity is an attractive measure for the rate at which quantum operators spread in the space of all possible operators under dynamical evolution. One expects that its late-time plateau would distinguish between integrable and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

We investigate many-body dynamics where the evolution is governed by unitary circuits through the lens of `Krylov complexity', a recently proposed measure of complexity and quantum chaos. We extend the formalism of Krylov complexity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Philippe Suchsland , Roderich Moessner , Pieter W. Claeys

Quantum chaotic systems are conjectured to display a spectrum whose fine-grained features (gaps and correlations) are well described by Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We propose and develop a complementary version of this conjecture: quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Vijay Balasubramanian , Javier M. Magan , Qingyue Wu

This paper establishes that Krylov complexity contains the entire information about the dynamics of a quantum operator, extending the list of equivalent quantities that can serve this purpose, such as the Lanczos coefficients, the return…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Wolfgang Mück

The breakdown of Lieb-Robinson bounds in local, non-Hermitian quantum systems opens up the possibility for a rich landscape of quantum many-body phenomenology. We elucidate this by studying information scrambling and quantum chaos in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Brian Barch , Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor Rieffel , Paolo Zanardi

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is central to the understanding of information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. In this work, we show that the OTOC in a quantum many-body system close to its critical point obeys dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Bo-Bo Wei , Gaoyong Sun , Myung-Joong Hwang

In this work, we investigate the quantum chaos in various $T\bar{T}$-deformed SYK models with finite $N$, including the SYK$_4$, the supersymmetric SYK$_4$, and the SYK$_2$ models. We numerically study the evolution of the spectral form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Song He , Pak Hang Chris Lau , Zhuo-Yu Xian , Long Zhao

Fast scrambling is a distinctive feature of quantum gravity, which by means of holography is closely tied to the behaviour of large$-c$ conformal field theories. We study this phenomenon in the context of semiclassical Liouville theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Julian Sonner , Benjamin Strittmatter

The growth of information scrambling, captured by out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), is a central indicator of the nature of many-body quantum dynamics. Here, we compute analytically the complete time dependence of the OTOC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-ping Zheng

In this article, we study the scrambling dynamics in supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems. The eigenstate representation of such supersymmetric systems allows us to present an explicit form of the $2N$-point out-of-time-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Rathindra Nath Das , Sourav Dutta , Archana Maji

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

Information scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC), has attracted much attention, as it sheds new light on chaotic dynamics in quantum many-body systems. The scale invariance, which appears near the quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 Shunsuke Nakamura , Eiki Iyoda , Tetsuo Deguchi , Takahiro Sagawa

In this work, we explore in detail, the time evolution of Krylov complexity. We demonstrate, through analytical computations, that in finite many-body systems, while ramp and plateau are two generic features of Krylov complexity, the manner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Mohsen Alishahiha , Souvik Banerjee , Mohammad Javad Vasli

Quantum complexity, suitably defined, has been suggested as an important probe of late-time dynamics of black holes, particularly in the context of AdS/CFT. A notion of quantum complexity can be effectively captured by quantifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

We study theoretically entanglement and operator growth in a spin system coupled to an environment, which is modeled with classical dephasing noise. Using exact numerical simulations we show that the entanglement growth and its fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-16 Michael Knap

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-order correlators (OTOCs) can be used to probe how quickly a quantum system scrambles information when the initial conditions of the dynamics are changed. In sufficiently large quantum systems, one can extract from the OTOC the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Chenghao Zhang , Peter G. Wolynes , Martin Gruebele

We provide a detailed examination of a thermal out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) growing exponentially in time in systems without chaos. The system is a one-dimensional quantum mechanics with a potential whose part is an inverted harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Koji Hashimoto , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Keun-Young Kim , Ryota Watanabe

Recent studies of out-of-time ordered thermal correlation functions (OTOC) in holographic systems and in solvable models such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model have yielded new insights into manifestations of many-body chaos. So far the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Mike Blake , Hyunseok Lee , Hong Liu