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The growth of information scrambling, captured by out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), is a central indicator of the nature of many-body quantum dynamics. Here, we compute analytically the complete time dependence of the OTOC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-ping Zheng

Information scrambling, the process by which quantum information spreads and becomes effectively inaccessible, is central to modern quantum statistical physics and quantum chaos. These lecture notes provide an introduction to information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Marcin Płodzień

We study the scrambling of quantum information in local random unitary circuits by focusing on the tripartite information proposed by Hosur et al. We provide exact results for the averaged R\'enyi-$2$ tripartite information in two cases:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-18 Bruno Bertini , Lorenzo Piroli

Quantum information scrambling has attracted much attention amid the effort to reconcile the conflict between quantum-mechanical unitarity and the thermalizaiton-irreversibility in many-body systems. Here we propose an unconventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Xiaopeng Li , Guanyu Zhu , Muxin Han , Xin Wang

Scrambling of quantum information can be conveniently quantified by so called out-of-time-order-correlators (OTOCs), whose measurements presents a formidable experimental challenge. Here we report on a method for the measurement of OTOCs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Michele Campisi , John Goold

Scrambling is a concept introduced from information loss problem arising in black hole. In this paper we discuss the effect of scrambling from a perspective of pure quantum information theory. We introduce $7$-qubit quantum circuit for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 MuSeong Kim , Mi-Ra Hwang , Eylee Jung , DaeKil Park

The action of any local operator on a quantum system propagates through the system carrying the information of the operator. This is usually studied via the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC). We numerically study the information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-10 Samudra Sur , Diptiman Sen

Recent theoretical and experimental studies have shown significance of quantum information scrambling (i.e. a spread of quantum information over a system degrees of freedom) for problems encountered in high-energy physics, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Jan Tuziemski

Out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) functions provide a powerful theoretical tool for diagnosing chaos and the scrambling of information in strongly-interacting, quantum systems. However, their direct and unambiguous experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Beni Yoshida , Norman Y. Yao

How quantum information is scrambled in the global degrees of freedom of non-equilibrium many-body systems is a key question to understand local thermalization. Here we propose that the scaling of the mutual information between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-01 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

We propose and analyze a protocol to study quantum information scrambling using statistical correlations between measurements, which are performed after evolving a quantum system from randomized initial states. We prove that the resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Benoît Vermersch , Andreas Elben , Lukas M. Sieberer , Norman Y. Yao , Peter Zoller

Quantum information scrambling is a process happening during thermalization in quantum systems and describes the delocalization of quantum information. It is closely tied to entanglement, a key resource for quantum technologies and an order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Lea Haas , Christian Carisch , Oded Zilberberg

Scrambling is the delocalization of quantum information over a many-body system and underlies all quantum-chaotic dynamics. We employ discrete quantum cellular automata as classically simulable toy models of scrambling. We observe that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Brian Kent , Sarah Racz , Sanjit Shashi

Many-body states that are invariant under particle relabelling, the permutation symmetric states, occur naturally when the system dynamics is described by symmetric processes or collective spin operators. We derive expressions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Akshay Seshadri , Vaibhav Madhok , Arul Lakshminarayan

Quantum information scrambling, which describes the propagation and effective loss of localinformation, is crucial for understanding the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. We report the observation of anomalous information scrambling in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Xinhui Liang , Zongpei Yue , Yu-Xin Chao , Zhen-Xing Hua , Yige Lin , Meng Khoon Tey , Li You

Scrambling of quantum information is the process by which information initially stored in the local degrees of freedom of a quantum many-body system spreads over its many-body degrees of freedom, becoming inaccessible to local probes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 R. J. Lewis-Swan , A. Safavi-Naini , J. J. Bollinger , A. M. Rey

Out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), been suggested as a measure of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems, has received enormous attention recently. The experimental measurement of OTOC is quite challenging. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Xinfang Nie , Ze Zhang , Xiuzhu Zhao , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

We study the dynamics of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) and entanglement of entropy as quantitative measures of information propagation in disordered many-body systems exhibiting Floquet time-crystal (FTC) phases. We find that OTOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Himanshu Sahu , Fernando Iemini

Thermalization of chaotic quantum many-body systems under unitary time evolution is related to the growth in complexity of initially simple Heisenberg operators. Operator growth is a manifestation of information scrambling and can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Information scrambling refers to the rapid spreading of initially localized information over an entire system, via the generation of global entanglement. This effect is usually detected by measuring a temporal decay of the out-of-time order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Joseph Harris , Bin Yan , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn