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Interaction in quantum systems can spread initially localized quantum information into the many degrees of freedom of the entire system. Understanding this process, known as quantum scrambling, is the key to resolving various conundrums in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Xiao Mi , Pedram Roushan , Chris Quintana , Salvatore Mandra , Jeffrey Marshall , Charles Neill , Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Juan Atalaya , Ryan Babbush , Joseph C. Bardin , Rami Barends , Andreas Bengtsson , Sergio Boixo , Alexandre Bourassa , Michael Broughton , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Zijun Chen , Benjamin Chiaro , Roberto Collins , William Courtney , Sean Demura , Alan R. Derk , Andrew Dunsworth , Daniel Eppens , Catherine Erickson , Edward Farhi , Austin G. Fowler , Brooks Foxen , Craig Gidney , Marissa Giustina , Jonathan A. Gross , Matthew P. Harrigan , Sean D. Harrington , Jeremy Hilton , Alan Ho , Sabrina Hong , Trent Huang , William J. Huggins , L. B. Ioffe , Sergei V. Isakov , Evan Jeffrey , Zhang Jiang , Cody Jones , Dvir Kafri , Julian Kelly , Seon Kim , Alexei Kitaev , Paul V. Klimov , Alexander N. Korotkov , Fedor Kostritsa , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Erik Lucero , Orion Martin , Jarrod R. McClean , Trevor McCourt , Matt McEwen , Anthony Megrant , Kevin C. Miao , Masoud Mohseni , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Josh Mutus , Ofer Naaman , Matthew Neeley , Michael Newman , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Thomas E. O'Brien , Alex Opremcak , Eric Ostby , Balint Pato , Andre Petukhov , Nicholas Redd , Nicholas C. Rubin , Daniel Sank , Kevin J. Satzinger , Vladimir Shvarts , Doug Strain , Marco Szalay , Matthew D. Trevithick , Benjamin Villalonga , Theodore White , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Adam Zalcman , Hartmut Neven , Igor Aleiner , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Yu Chen

Operator spreading, often characterized by out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), is one of the central concepts in quantum many-body physics. However, measuring OTOCs is experimentally challenging due to the requirement of reversing the…

The study of information scrambling has profoundly deepened our understanding of many-body quantum systems. Much recent research has been devote to understanding the interplay between scrambling and decoherence in open systems. Continuing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Emanuel Dallas , Faidon Andreadakis , Paolo Zanardi

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

We generalize the discrete quantum walk on the line using a time dependent unitary coin operator. We find an analytical relation between the long-time behaviors of the standard deviation and the coin operator. Selecting the coin time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alejandro Romanelli

The Hayden-Preskill protocol probes the capability of information recovery from local subsystems after unitary dynamics. As such it resolves the capability of quantum many-body systems to dynamically implement a quantum error-correcting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Michael A. Rampp , Pieter W. Claeys

Previously, we demonstrated that the dynamics of kicked spin chains possess a remarkable duality property. The trace of the unitary evolution operator for $N$ spins at time $T$ is related to one of a non-unitary evolution operator for $T$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-07 M. Akila , D. Waltner , B. Gutkin , T. Guhr

Projective measurement, a basic operation in quantum mechanics, can induce seemingly nonlocal effects. In this work, we analyze such effects in many-body systems by studying the non-equilibrium dynamics of weakly monitored quantum circuits,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-19 Shengqi Sang , Zhi Li , Timothy H. Hsieh , Beni Yoshida

We consider a graph with a single quantum system at each node. The entire compound system evolves in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution $U$. We require that this global evolution $U$ be unitary, in accordance with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme , Reinhard Werner

Inspired by recent developments in the study of chaos in many-body systems, we construct a measure of local information spreading for a stochastic Cellular Automaton in the form of a spatiotemporally resolved Hamming distance. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Shuwei Liu , J. Willsher , T. Bilitewski , Jinjie Li , A. Smith , K. Christensen , R. Moessner , J. Knolle

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) are considered to be a promising tool to characterize chaos in quantum systems. In this paper we study OTOC in XY model. With the presence of anisotropic parameter $\gamma$ and external magnetic field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jiahui Bao , Cheng-Yong Zhang

An important result in the theory of quantum control is the "universality" of $2$-local unitary gates, i.e. the fact that any global unitary evolution of a system of $L$ qudits can be implemented by composition of $2$-local unitary gates.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Marco Lastres , Frank Pollmann , Sanjay Moudgalya

Exact solutions in interacting many-body systems are scarce but extremely valuable since they provide insights into the dynamics. Dual-unitary models are examples in one spatial dimension where this is possible. These brick-wall quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Kos , Georgios Styliaris

Universal features of chaotic quantum dynamics underlie our understanding of thermalization in closed quantum systems and the complexity of quantum computations. Reversible automaton circuits, comprised of classical logic gates, have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Ben T. McDonough , Claudio Chamon , Justin H. Wilson , Thomas Iadecola

Operator scrambling is a crucial ingredient of quantum chaos. Specifically, in the quantum chaotic system, a simple operator can become increasingly complicated under unitary time evolution. This can be diagnosed by various measures such as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-25 Xiao Chen , Tianci Zhou

We study the probability distribution function of the long-time values of observables being time-evolved by Hamiltonians modeling clean and disordered one-dimensional chains of many spin-1/2 particles. In particular, we analyze the return…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-10 I. Vallejo-Fabila , E. Jonathan Torres-Herrera

In two-dimensional Floquet systems, many-body localized dynamics in the bulk may give rise to a chaotic evolution at the one-dimensional edges that is characterized by a nonzero chiral topological index. Such anomalous dynamics is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-25 Zongping Gong , Adam Nahum , Lorenzo Piroli

In classical dynamical systems, chaotic behavior is often associated with exponential sensitivity to initial conditions together with global phase-space structure. Translating this geometric concept to the strictly linear framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Wiggins

We show that any two different unitary operations acting on an arbitrary multipartite quantum system can be perfectly distinguishable by local operations and classical communication when a finite number of runs is allowed. We then directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Runyao Duan , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

We investigate the spectral and transport properties of many-body quantum systems with conserved charges and kinetic constraints. Using random unitary circuits, we compute ensemble-averaged spectral form factors and linear-response…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-06 Hansveer Singh , Brayden Ware , Romain Vasseur , Aaron J. Friedman