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Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC), vigorously being explored as a measure of quantum chaos and information scrambling, is studied here in the natural and simplest multi-particle context of bipartite systems. We show that two strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Ravi Prakash , Arul Lakshminarayan

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

Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) quantify quantum information scrambling, but their connection to localized phase-space structures, such as chemical transition states, requires formal development. We derive a leading-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Stephen Wiggins

Out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs) help characterize the scrambling of quantum information and are usually studied in the context of nonintegrable systems. In this work, we compare the relaxation dynamics of OTOCs in interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-29 Vinitha Balachandran , Lea F. Santos , Marcos Rigol , Dario Poletti

We study chaos and scrambling in unitary channels by considering their entanglement properties as states. Using out-of-time-order correlation functions to diagnose chaos, we characterize the ability of a channel to process quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi , Daniel A. Roberts , Beni Yoshida

Quantum simulation elucidates properties of quantum many-body systems by mapping its Hamiltonian to a better-controlled system. Being less stringent than a universal quantum computer, noisy small- and intermediate-scale quantum simulators…

Information scrambling refers to the phenomenon in which local quantum information in a many-body system becomes dispersed throughout the entire system under unitary evolution. It has been extensively studied in closed quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Haolin Jiang , Pengfei Zhang

The information scrambling phenomena in an open quantum system modeled by Ising spin chains coupled to Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) baths are observed via an interferometric method for obtaining out-of-time-ordered correlators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

In this study, we investigate out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in systems with power-law decaying interactions such as $R^{-\alpha}$, where $R$ is the distance. In such systems, the fast scrambling of quantum information or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

We study operator scrambling in quantum circuits built from `super-Clifford' gates. For such circuits it was established in arXiv:2002.12824 that the time evolution of operator entanglement for a large class of many-body operators can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Mike Blake , Noah Linden , Anthony P. Thompson

The Out-of-Time-Order Correlator (OTOC) is a standard algebraic diagnostic of quantum information scrambling, but it offers limited direct geometric intuition. In this note, we propose a Bohmian, trajectory-based framework for constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Wiggins

Two topics, evolving rapidly in separate fields, were combined recently: The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) signals quantum-information scrambling in many-body systems. The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability represents operators in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 Nicole Yunger Halpern , Brian Swingle , Justin Dressel

How violently do two quantum operators disagree? Different fields of physics feature different measures of incompatibility: (i) In quantum information theory, entropic uncertainty relations constrain measurement outcomes. (ii) In condensed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicole Yunger Halpern , Anthony Bartolotta , Jason Pollack

OTOC has been used to characterize the information scrambling in quantum systems. Recent studies showed that local conserved quantities play a crucial role in governing the relaxation dynamics of OTOC in non-integrable systems. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Vinitha Balachandran , Dario Poletti

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

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are an effective tool in characterizing black hole chaos, many-body thermalization and quantum dynamics instability. Previous research findings have shown that the OTOCs' exponential growth (EG) marks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Wen-Lei Zhao , Yue Hu , Zhi Li , Qian Wang

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 closed generic many-body systems, unitary evolution disperses local quantum information into highly non-local objects, resulting in thermalization. Such a process is called information scrambling, whose swiftness is quantified by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Pengfei Zhang , Zhenhua Yu

We study information scrambling, as diagnosed by the out-of-time order correlations (OTOCs), in a system of large spins collectively interacting via spatially inhomogeneous and incommensurate exchange couplings. The model is realisable in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-22 J. Marino , A. M. Rey

Quantum scrambling refers to the spread of local quantum information into the many degrees of freedom of a quantum system. In this work, we introduce a resource theory of scrambling which incorporates two mechanisms, "entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Roy J. Garcia , Kaifeng Bu , Arthur Jaffe