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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

The relaxation of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) has been studied as a mean to characterize the scrambling properties of a quantum system. We show that the presence of local conserved quantities typically results in, at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-22 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Dario Poletti

Small noise can induce rare transitions between metastable states, which can be characterized by Maximum Likelihood Paths (MLPs). Nongradient systems contrast gradient systems in that MLP does not have to cross the separatrix at a saddle…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Molei Tao

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

We extend the static theory of disorder-induced exponential decay of the averaged Green function of a quantum charged particle in a classical one-component plasma to the dynamic regime by incorporating the temporal evolution of the ionic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yury A. Budkov

Dissipative quantum chaos plays a central role in the characterization and control of information scrambling, non-unitary evolution, and thermalization, but it still lacks a precise definition. The Grobe-Haake-Sommers conjecture, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Debabrata Mondal , Lea F. Santos , S. Sinha

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

Measurement-induced phase transitions arise due to a competition between the scrambling of quantum information in a many-body system and local measurements. In this work we investigate these transitions in different classes of fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Tomohiro Hashizume , Gregory Bentsen , Andrew J. Daley

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) have been proposed as a probe of chaos in quantum mechanics, on the basis of their short-time exponential growth found in some particular set-ups. However, it has been seen that this behavior is not…

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

In this work, we develop a quantum metrological framework for quantum chaos by showing that local subsystems of information scrambling systems naturally function as quantum stopwatches. The reduced quantum state of a subsystem encodes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Devjyoti Tripathy , Federico Centrone , Sebastian Deffner

Out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs) play a crucial role in the study of thermalization, entanglement, and quantum chaos, as they quantify the scrambling of quantum information due to complex interactions. As a consequence of…

The quantum dynamics of spin systems with uniform all-to-all interaction are often studied in the totally symmetric space (TSS) of maximal total spin. However the TSS states are atypical in the full many-body Hilbert space. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Zihao Qi , Thomas Scaffidi , Xiangyu Cao

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

Random permutation circuits were recently introduced as minimal models for local many-body dynamics that can be interpreted both as classical and quantum. Standard dynamical complexity indicators such as damage spreading and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Bruno Bertini , Katja Klobas , Pavel Kos , Daniel Malz

Quantum information scrambling refers to the loss of local recoverability of quantum information, which has found widespread attention from high energy physics to quantum computing. In the present analysis we propose a possible starting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

The exponential growth or decay with time of the out-of-time-order commutator (OTOC) is one widely used diagnostic of many-body chaos in spatially-extended systems. In studies of many-body classical chaos, it has been noted that one can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-22 Vedika Khemani , David A. Huse , Adam Nahum

The quantum-to-classical correspondence is often quantified in dynamics by a quantity referred to as the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC). In chaotic systems, the OTOC is expected to grow exponentially at early time, characteristic of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Hui Li , Eli Halperin , Reuben R. W. Wang , John L. Bohn

The onset of quantum chaos in quantum field theory may be studied using out-of-time-order correlators at finite temperature. Recent work argued that a timescale logarithmic in the central charge emerged in the context of two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Chang Liu , David A. Lowe