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The exponential growth of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has been proposed as a quantum signature of classical chaos. The growth rate is expected to coincide with the classical Lyapunov exponent. This quantum-classical…

We study numerically and analytically the quench dynamics of isolated many-body quantum systems. Using full random matrices from the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble, we obtain analytical expressions for the evolution of the survival…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-07 E. J. Torres-Herrera , Antonio M. García-García , Lea F. Santos

We propose a physical witness for dynamically detecting topological phase transitions (TPTs) via an experimentally observable out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC). The distinguishable OTOC dynamics appears in the topological trivial and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Qian Bin , Liang-Liang Wan , Franco Nori , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

The out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have been established as a fundamental concept for quantifying quantum information scrambling and diagnosing quantum chaotic behavior. Recently, it was theoretically proposed that the OTOC can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xinfang Nie , Bo-Bo Wei , Xi Chen , Ze Zhang , Xiuzhu Zhao , Chudan Qiu , Yu Tian , Yunlan Ji , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

Thermalization and scrambling are the subject of much recent study from the perspective of many-body quantum systems with locally bounded Hilbert spaces (`spin chains'), quantum field theory and holography. We tackle this problem in 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Curt von Keyserlingk , Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann , Shivaji Sondhi

The basic quantum mechanical relation between fluctuations of transported charge and current correlators is discussed. It is found that, as a rule, the correlators are to be time-ordered in an unusual way. Instances where the difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Bachmann , G. M. Graf , G. B. Lesovik

Chaotic systems are highly sensitive to a small perturbation, and are ubiquitous throughout biological sciences, physical sciences and even social sciences. Taking this as the underlying principle, we construct an operational notion for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Neil Dowling , Kavan Modi

In this work, we study the time-dependent behaviour of quantum correlations of a system of an inverted oscillator governed by out-of-equilibrium dynamics using the well-known Schwinger-Keldysh formalism in presence of quantum mechanical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Sayantan Choudhury , Suman Dey , Rakshit Mandish Gharat , Saptarshi Mandal , Nilesh Pandey

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

We study universal chaotic dynamics of a large class of periodically driven critical systems described by spatially inhomogeneous conformal field theories. By employing an effective curved spacetime approach, we show that the onset of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-24 Bastien Lapierre , Tokiro Numasawa , Titus Neupert , Shinsei Ryu

We study correlations, transport and chaos in a Heisenberg magnet as a classical model many-body system. By varying temperature and dimensionality, we can tune between settings with and without symmetry breaking and accompanying collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Thomas Bilitewski , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Roderich Moessner

Quantum information stored in local operators spreads over other degrees of freedom of the system during time evolution, known as scrambling. This process is conveniently characterized by the out-of-time-order commutators (OTOC), whose time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Zoltán Okvátovity , Balázs Dóra

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as a tool to witness quantum information scrambling in many-body system dynamics. These correlators can be understood as averages over nonclassical multi-time quasi-probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Razieh Mohseninia , José Raúl González Alonso , Justin Dressel

In this work, we derive an exact hydrodynamical description for the coupled, charge and operator dynamics, in a quantum many-body system with U(1) symmetry. Using an emergent symmetry in the complex Brownian SYK model with charge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-12 Lakshya Agarwal , Subhayan Sahu , Shenglong Xu

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a powerful tool for probing quantum information scrambling, a fundamental process by which local information spreads irreversibly throughout a quantum many-body system. Experimentally measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Haruki Emori , Hiroyasu Tajima

The dynamics of interacting quantum many-body systems has two seemingly disparate but fundamental facets. The first is the dynamics of real-space local observables, and if and how they thermalise. The second is to interpret the dynamics of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-10 Bikram Pain , Kritika Khanwal , Sthitadhi Roy

The presence and character of local integrals of motion -- quasi-local operators that commute with the Hamiltonian -- encode valuable information about the dynamics of a quantum system. In particular, strongly disordered many-body systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-02 T. E. O'Brien , Dmitry A. Abanin , Guifre Vidal , Z. Papić

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

Scrambling, a process in which quantum information spreads over a complex quantum system becoming inaccessible to simple probes, happens in generic chaotic quantum many-body systems, ranging from spin chains, to metals, even to black holes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been suggested as a means to study quantum chaotic behavior in various systems. In this work, I calculate OTOCs for the quantum mechanical anharmonic oscillator with quartic potential, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Paul Romatschke