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Out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOC's) are presently being extensively debated as quantifiers of dynamical chaos in interacting quantum many-body systems. We argue that in quantum spin and fermionic systems, where all local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Ivan Kukuljan , Sašo Grozdanov , Tomaž Prosen

Quantum scrambling often gives rise to short-time exponential growth in out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs). The scrambling rate over an isolated saddle point at finite temperature is shown here to be reduced by a hierarchy of quenching…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-25 Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam , Andrew C. Hunt , Lars Meuser , Yair Litman , Stuart C. Althorpe

We study the statistical properties of Lanczos coefficients over an ensemble of random initial operators generating the Krylov space. We propose two statistical quantities that are important in characterizing the complexity: the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Zhuoran Li , Wei Fan

Krylov subspace methods quantify operator growth in quantum many-body systems through Lanczos coefficients that encode how operators spread under time evolution. Although these diagnostics were originally motivated by questions of chaos and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Rishabh Jha , Heiko Georg Menzler

This work addresses how the growth of invariant operators is influenced by their underlying symmetry structure. For this purpose, we introduce the symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity, which captures the time evolution of each block into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Pawel Caputa , Giuseppe Di Giulio , Tran Quang Loc

We study observation entropy (OE) for the Quantum kicked top (QKT) model, whose classical counterpart possesses different phases: regular, mixed, or chaotic, depending on the strength of the kicking parameter. We show that OE grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Sreeram PG , Ranjan Modak , S. Aravinda

In this article, we explore dynamical aspects of Out-of-Time-Order correlators (OTOCs) for critical quenches, in which an initial non-trivial state evolves with a CFT-Hamiltonian. At sufficiently large time, global critical quenches exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-31 Suchetan Das , Bobby Ezhuthachan , Arnab Kundu , Somnath Porey , Baishali Roy

In this work we study the relationship between quantum random walks on graphs and Krylov/spread complexity. We show that the latter's definition naturally emerges through a canonical method of reducing a graph to a chain, on which we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Dimitrios Patramanis , Watse Sybesma

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 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

Out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) are crucial tools for studying quantum chaos as they show distinct scrambling behavior for chaotic Hamiltonians. We calculate OTOC and analyze the quantum information scrambling in atom-field and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

The dynamics of quantum systems unfolds within a subspace of the state space or operator space, known as the Krylov space. This review presents the use of Krylov subspace methods to provide an efficient description of quantum evolution and…

In Hermitian systems, Krylov complexity has emerged as a powerful diagnostic of quantum dynamics, capable of distinguishing chaotic from integrable phases, in agreement with established probes such as spectral statistics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Xuhao Jiang , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

We investigate the classical-quantum correspondence in the inverted harmonic oscillator (IHO) system. It is shown that the out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) which the initial states are located at any position in the IHO system possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Shangyun Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We show that operator growth in large-central-charge conformal field theories with $\mathcal{W}_3$ symmetry can violate the universal operator growth hypothesis once the Liouvillian is enlarged to probe the higher-spin generators. For the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Dileep P. Jatkar , Sujoy Mahato , Sukrut Mondkar , Praveen Thalore

Recently, a hypothesis on the complexity growth of unitarily evolving operators was presented. This hypothesis states that in generic, non-integrable many-body systems the so-called Lanczos coefficients associated with an autocorrelation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-17 Robin Heveling , Jiaozi Wang , Jochen Gemmer

Krylov complexity is a novel approach to study how an operator spreads over a specific basis. Recently, it has been stated that this quantity has a long-time saturation that depends on the amount of chaos in the system. Since this quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Bernardo L. Español , Diego A. Wisniacki

We consider the Brownian SYK model of $N$ interacting Majorana fermions, with random couplings that are taken to vary independently at each time. We study the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) of arbitrary observables and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Christoph Sünderhauf , Lorenzo Piroli , Xiao-Liang Qi , Norbert Schuch , J. Ignacio Cirac

In a quantum many-body system, autocorrelation functions can determine linear responses nearby equilibrium and quantum dynamics far from equilibrium. In this letter, we bring out the connection between the operator complexity and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-05 Ren Zhang , Hui Zhai

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
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