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A practical search technique for finding the complex saddle points used in wave packet or coherent state propagation is developed which works for a large class of Hamiltonian dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom. The method can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-08 Steven Tomsovic

Information scrambling refers to the unitary dynamics that quickly spreads and encodes localized quantum information over an entire many-body system and makes the information accessible from any small subsystem. While information scrambling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-30 Yoshifumi Nakata , Masaki Tezuka

The information scrambling phenomena in an open quantum system modeled by Ising spin chains coupled to Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) baths are observed via an interferometric method for obtaining out-of-time-ordered correlators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

We analyse time evolution of spread complexity (SC) in an isolated interacting quantum many-body system when it is subjected to a sudden quench. The differences in characteristics of the time evolution of the SC for different time scales is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Mamta Gautam , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Ankit Gill , Nitesh Jaiswal , Tapobrata Sarkar

Operator scrambling, which governs the spread of quantum information in many-body systems, is a central concept in both condensed matter and high-energy physics. Accurately capturing the emergent properties of these systems remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tianfeng Feng , Yue Cao , Qi Zhao

Many quantum gravitational frameworks, such as DBI inflation, k-essence, and effective field theories obtained by integrating out heavy modes, can lead to a non-trivial sound speed. Meanwhile, our universe can be described as an open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Shi-Cheng Liu , Lei-Hua Liu , Bichu Li , Hai-Qing Zhang , Peng-Zhang He

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been extensively used over the last few years to study information scrambling and quantum chaos in many-body systems. In this paper, we extend the formalism of the averaged bipartite OTOC of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Paolo Zanardi , Namit Anand

Fast scrambling is a distinctive feature of quantum gravity, which by means of holography is closely tied to the behaviour of large$-c$ conformal field theories. We study this phenomenon in the context of semiclassical Liouville theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Julian Sonner , Benjamin Strittmatter

One of the important open problems in quantum black hole physics is a dual interpretation of holographic complexity proposals. To date the only quantitative match is the equality between the Krylov spread complexity in triple-scaled SYK at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Michal P. Heller , Jacopo Papalini , Tim Schuhmann

Weak ergodicity breaking, particularly through quantum many-body scars (QMBS), has become a significant focus in many-body physics. Krylov state complexity quantifies the spread of quantum states within the Krylov basis and serves as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-08 Qingmin Hu , Wen-Yi Zhang , Yunguang Han , Wen-Long You

Quantum scrambling describes the spreading of local information into many degrees of freedom in quantum systems. This provides the conceptual connection among diverse phenomena ranging from thermalizing quantum dynamics to models of black…

The nonintegrable transverse-field Ising model is a common platform for studying ergodic quantum dynamics. In this work, we introduce a simple variant of the model in which this ergodic behaviour is suppressed by introducing a spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Gaurav Rudra Malik , Jeet Sharma , Rohit Kumar Shukla , S. Aravinda , Sunil Kumar Mishra

Out-of-Time-Ordered Commutators (OTOCs), representing a key diagnostic for scrambling as a facet of short-time quantum chaos, have attracted wide-ranging interest, from many-body physics to quantum gravity. By means of a suitable form of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fabian Haneder , Gerrit Caspari , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

Recent advances in quantum information science have shed light on the intricate dynamics of quantum many-body systems, for which quantum information scrambling is a perfect example. Motivated by considerations of the thermodynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

In this work we revisit the problem of equilibration in isolated many-body interacting quantum systems. We pay particular attention to quantum chaotic Hamiltonians, and rather than focusing on the properties of the asymptotic states and how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 Manuel H Muñoz-Arias

We make lattice generalization of two well-known zero-dimensional models of quantum spin glass, Sachdev-Ye (SY) and spherical quantum $p$-spin glass model, to one dimension for studying crossovers in non-local scrambling dynamics due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-08 Venkata Lokesh K. Y , Surajit Bera , Sumilan Banerjee

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

We study the effect of spatial inhomogeneity on quantum information scrambling, a process of spreading and locally hiding quantum information in quantum many-body systems. As a paradigmatic example, we consider the quantum chaotic Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Kanato Goto , Taozhi Guo , Tomoki Nosaka , Masahiro Nozaki , Shinsei Ryu , Kotaro Tamaoka

Krylov complexity is an important dynamical quantity with relevance to the study of operator growth and quantum chaos, and has recently been much studied for various time-independent systems. We initiate the study of K-complexity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Amin A. Nizami , Ankit W. Shrestha

We study the operator growth problem and its complexity in the many-body localization (MBL) system from the Lanczos algorithm perspective. Using the Krylov basis, the operator growth problem can be viewed as a single-particle hopping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-31 Fabian Ballar Trigueros , Cheng-Ju Lin