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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

Spread complexity uses the distribution of support of a time-evolving state in the Krylov basis to quantify dispersal across accessible dimensions of a Hilbert space. Here, we describe how variations in initial conditions, the Hamiltonian,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Vijay Balasubramanian , Pawel Caputa , Joan Simón

We investigate the Krylov complexity of thermofield double states in systems with mixed phase space, uncovering a direct correlation with the Brody distribution, which interpolates between Poisson and Wigner statistics. Our analysis spans…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Juan F. Pedraza

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

Building upon recent research in spin systems with non-local interactions, this study investigates operator growth using the Krylov complexity in different non-local versions of the Ising model. We find that the non-locality results in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

We develop techniques to probe the dynamics of quantum information, and implement them experimentally on an IBM superconducting quantum processor. Our protocols adapt shadow tomography for the study of time evolution channels rather than of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Max McGinley , Sebastian Leontica , Samuel J. Garratt , Jovan Jovanovic , Steven H. Simon

Recently, the phenomenon of quantum-classical correspondence breakdown was uncovered in optomechanics, where in the classical regime the system exhibits chaos but in the corresponding quantum regime the motion is regular - there appears to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Guanglei Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Celso Grebogi

We show that the onset of quantum chaos at infinite temperature in two many-body one-dimensional lattice models, the perturbed spin-1/2 XXZ and Anderson models, is characterized by universal behavior. Specifically, we show that the onset of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-02 Tyler LeBlond , Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Marcos Rigol

Chaotic transverse-field Ising model with measurements exhibits interesting purification dynamics. Ensemble of non-unitary dynamics of a chaotic many-body system with measurements exhibits a purification phase transition. We numerically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Yoshihito Kuno , Takahiro Orito , Ikuo Ichinose

We investigate theoretically the dynamics of squeezed state generation in nonlinear systems possessing a transition from regular to chaotic dynamics in the limit of a large number of photons. As an example, the model of a kicked Kerr…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirill N. Alekseev , Jan Perina

A new class of particle systems with sequential interaction is proposed to approximate the McKean-Vlasov process that originally arises as the limit of the mean-field interacting particle system. The weighted empirical measure of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Kai Du , Yifan Jiang , Xiaochen Li

We define quantum chaos and integrability in open quantum many-body systems as a dynamical property of single stochastic realizations, referred to as quantum trajectories. This definition relies on the predictions of random matrix theory…

Scrambling, a process in which quantum information spreads over a complex quantum system becoming inaccessible to simple probes, happens in generic chaotic quantum many-body systems, ranging from spin chains, to metals, even to black holes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Integrable quantum systems of finite size are generically robust against weak enough integrability-breaking perturbations, but become quantum chaotic and thermalizing if the integrability-breaking is strong enough. We argue that the onset…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-08 Vir B. Bulchandani , David A. Huse , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Quantum chaos refers to signatures of classical chaos found in the quantum domain. Recently, it has become common to equate the exponential behavior of out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) with quantum chaos. The quantum-classical…

Quantum informatic quantities such as entanglement entropy are useful in detecting quantum phase transitions. Recently, a new entanglement measure called pseudo-entropy was proposed which is a generalization of the more well-known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Song He , Pak Hang Chris Lau , Long Zhao

The propagation of molecular chaos, a tool of classical kinetic theory, is generalized to apply to quantum systems of distinguishable particles. We prove that the Curie-Weiss model of ferromagnetism propagates molecular chaos and derive the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander David Gottlieb

Out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) are crucial tools for studying quantum chaos as they show distinct scrambling behavior for chaotic Hamiltonians. We calculate OTOC and analyze the quantum information scrambling in atom-field and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

Operator size growth describes the scrambling of operators in quantum dynamics and stands out as an essential physical concept for characterizing quantum chaos. Important as it is, a scheme for direct measuring operator size on a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Xi-Dan Hu , Tong Luo , Dan-Bo Zhang

This paper establishes that Krylov complexity contains the entire information about the dynamics of a quantum operator, extending the list of equivalent quantities that can serve this purpose, such as the Lanczos coefficients, the return…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Wolfgang Mück