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We investigate the relationship between information scrambling and work statistics after a quench for the paradigmatic example of short-range interacting particles in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, considering up to five particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Mathias Mikkelsen , Thomás Fogarty , Thomas Busch

Information scrambling refers to the propagation of information throughout a quantum system. Its study not only contributes to our understanding of thermalization but also has wide implications in quantum information and black hole physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Zeyu Liu , Pengfei Zhang

The evolution of a quantum system interacting with an environment can be described as a unitary process acting on both the system and the environment. In this framework, the system's evolution can be predicted by tracing out the…

A key conjecture about the evolution of complex quantum systems towards an ergodic steady state, known as scrambling, is that this process acquires universal features when it is most efficient. We develop a single-parameter scaling theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Tara Kalsi , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

Scrambling unitary dynamics in a quantum system transmutes local quantum information into a non-local web of correlations which manifests itself in a complex spatio-temporal pattern of entanglement. In such a context, we show there can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alan Sherry , Sthitadhi Roy

We address the quantum dynamics of a system composed of a qubit globally coupled to a many-body system characterized by short-range interactions. We employ a dynamic finite-size scaling framework to investigate the out-of-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-20 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

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

Quantum machine learning is a discipline that holds the promise of revolutionizing data processing and problem-solving. However, dissipation and noise arising from the coupling with the environment are commonly perceived as major obstacles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 María Laura Olivera-Atencio , Lucas Lamata , Jesús Casado-Pascual

Recent advances in quantum technologies and related experiments have created a need for highly accurate, versatile, and computationally efficient simulation techniques for the dynamics of open quantum systems. Long-lived correlation effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Meng Xu , Vasilii Vadimov , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

Open quantum systems are ubiquitous in the physical sciences, with widespread applications in the areas of chemistry, condensed matter physics, material science, optics, and many more. Not surprisingly, there is significant interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Isobel A. Aloisio , Gregory A. L. White , Charles D. Hill , Kavan Modi

In a non-equilibrium many-body system, the quantum information dynamics between non-complementary regions is a crucial feature to understand the local relaxation towards statistical ensembles. Unfortunately, its characterization is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

We propose a protocol to simulate the evolution of a non-Markovian open quantum system by considering a collisional process with a many-body system, which plays the role of an environment. As a result of our protocol the environment spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Eduardo Mascarenhas , Ines de Vega

We study quantum information scrambling, specifically the growth of Heisenberg operators, in large disordered spin chains using matrix product operator dynamics to scan across the thermalization-localization quantum phase transition. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-23 Subhayan Sahu , Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

We investigate the relationship between Krylov complexity and operator quantum speed limits (OQSLs) of the complexity operator and level repulsion in random/integrable matrices and many-body systems. An enhanced level-repulsion corresponds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Ankit Gill , Tapobrata Sarkar

Quantum chaotic interacting $N$-particle systems are assumed to show fast and irreversible spreading of quantum information on short (Ehrenfest) time scales $\sim\!\log N$. Here we show that, near criticality, certain many-body systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Quirin Hummel , Benjamin Geiger , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

Quantum information scrambling (QIS), from the perspective of quantum information theory, is generally understood as local non-retrievability of information evolved through some dynamical process, and is often quantified via entropic…

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are non-equilibrium transitions characterized by the orthogonality between an initial quantum state and its time-evolved counterpart following a sudden quench. Recently, studies of this phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kai Zhang , Chang Shu , Kai Sun

Recent work has studied the growth of commutators as a probe of chaos and information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. In this work we study the effect of static disorder on the growth of commutators in a variety of contexts. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-01 Brian Swingle , Debanjan Chowdhury

There is great interest in using near-term quantum computers to simulate and study foundational problems in quantum mechanics and quantum information science, such as the scrambling measured by an out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC). Here…

Quantum system interacting with environment can induce redundant encoding of the information of system into a multipartite environment, which is the essence of quantum Darwinism. At the same time, environment may scramble the initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Feng Tian , Jian Zou , Hai Li , Bin Shao