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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

We consider the relation between relaxation time and the largest Lyapunov exponent in a system of two coupled oscillators, one of them being harmonic. It has been found that in a rather broad region of parameter space, contrary to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. K. Papachristou , E. Mavrommatis , V. Constantoudis , F. Diakonos , J. Wambach

We study out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) functions in various random quantum circuits and show that the average dynamics is governed by a Markovian propagator. This is then used to study relaxation of OTOC to its long-time average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Jas Bensa , Marko Znidaric

We study out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) of local operators in spatial-temporal invariant or random quantum circuits using light-like generators (LLG) -- many-body operators that exist in and act along the light-like directions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Ke Huang , Xiao Li , David A. Huse , Amos Chan

We compute Out-of-Time-Order correlators (OTOCs) for conformal field theories (CFTs) subjected to either continuous or discrete periodic drive protocols. This is achieved by an appropriate analytic continuation of the stroboscopic time.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Suchetan Das , Bobby Ezhuthachan , Arnab Kundu , Somnath Porey , Baishali Roy , K. Sengupta

Describing dynamics in a gravitational universe with positive cosmological constant, such as de Sitter space, is a conceptually challenging problem. We propose a principle for constructing a quantum system that can potentially be used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Vladimir Narovlansky

Scrambling and thermalisation are topics of intense study in both condensed matter and high energy physics. Random unitary dynamics form a simple testing-ground for our theoretical understanding of these processes. In this work, we derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Ewan McCulloch

The interplay between dissipation and correlation can lead to novel emergent phenomena in open systems. Here we investigate ``steady-state topological order'' defined by the robust topological degeneracy of steady states, which is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Zijian Wang , Xu-Dong Dai , He-Ran Wang , Zhong Wang

We discuss the connection between the out-of-time-ordered correlator and the number of harmonics of the phase-space Wigner distribution function. In particular, we show that both quantities grow exponentially for chaotic dynamics, with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Jiaozi Wang , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Wenge Wang

Interacting many-body quantum systems show a rich array of physical phenomena and dynamical properties, but are notoriously difficult to study: they are challenging analytically and exponentially difficult to simulate on classical…

The out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) has become a popular probe for quantum information spreading and thermalization. In systems with local interactions, the OTOC defines a characteristic butterfly lightcone that separates a regime not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Cheryne Jonay , Cathy Li , Tianci Zhou

The time-dependent structure of the Lyapunov vectors corresponding to the steps of Lyapunov spectra and their basis set representation are discussed for a quasi-one-dimensional many-hard-disk systems. Time-oscillating behavior is observed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tooru Taniguchi , Gary P. Morriss

As the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is a measure of quantum chaos and an important observable in the context of AdS/CFT, we investigate the OTOC of holographic Skyrmion which is described by an analytical quantum mechanical system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Si-wen Li , Yi-peng Zhang , Hao-qian Li

We conjecture a sharp bound on the rate of growth of chaos in thermal quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom. Chaos can be diagnosed using an out-of-time-order correlation function closely related to the commutator of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Juan Maldacena , Stephen H. Shenker , Douglas Stanford

A very weakly coupled linear oscillator is proposed as a detector for observing time-irreversible characteristics of a quantum system, and it is used to measure the lifetime during which a classically chaotic quantum system shows decay of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-30 Fumihiro Matsui , Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

We use out-of-time-order commutator (OTOC) to diagnose the propagation of chaos in one dimensional long-range power law interaction system. We map the evolution of OTOC to a classical stochastic dynamics problem and use a Brownian quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-12 Xiao Chen , Tianci Zhou

Quantum chaos is an intriguing topic and has attracted a great deal of interests in quantum mechanics and black hole physics. Recently, the exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has been proposed to diagnose quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Shangyun Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing , Jieci Wang , Heng Fan

We consider the quantum dynamics of a pair of coupled quantum oscillators coupled to a common correlated dissipative environment. The resulting equations of motion for both the operator moments and covariances can be integrated analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Eric R Bittner , Bhavay Tyagi

Many systems in biology, physics and chemistry can be modeled through ordinary differential equations, which are piecewise smooth, but switch between different states according to a Markov jump process. In the fast switching limit, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Paul Bressloff , James MacLaurin

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