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In the study of quantum chaos diagnostics, considerable attention has been attributed to the Krylov complexity and spectrum form factor (SFF) for systems at infinite temperature. These investigations have unveiled universal properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-19 Chengming Tan , Zhiyang Wei , Ren Zhang

We develop a geometric approach to operator growth and Krylov complexity in many-body quantum systems governed by symmetries. We start by showing a direct link between a unitary evolution with the Liouvillian and the displacement operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-05 Pawel Caputa , Javier M. Magan , Dimitrios Patramanis

Quantum information scrambling refers to the spread of the initially stored information over many degrees of freedom of a quantum many-body system. Information scrambling is intimately linked to the thermalization of isolated quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Ricardo Puebla , Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz

We propose a new diagnostic for quantum chaos. We show that time evolution of complexity for a particular type of target state can provide equivalent information about the classical Lyapunov exponent and scrambling time as out-of-time-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Tibra Ali , Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Eugene H. Kim , Nathan Moynihan , Jeff Murugan

Quantum simulation elucidates properties of quantum many-body systems by mapping its Hamiltonian to a better-controlled system. Being less stringent than a universal quantum computer, noisy small- and intermediate-scale quantum simulators…

We apply a quantum teleportation protocol based on the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment to quantify how scrambling a given quantum evolution is. It has an advantage over the direct measurement of out-of-time ordered correlators when used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Yuta Kikuchi

The IP matrix model is a simple large $N$ quantum mechanical model made up of an adjoint harmonic oscillator plus a fundamental harmonic oscillator. It is a model introduced previously as a toy model of the gauge theory dual of an AdS black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Norihiro Iizuka , Mitsuhiro Nishida

Recent studies of out-of-time ordered thermal correlation functions (OTOC) in holographic systems and in solvable models such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model have yielded new insights into manifestations of many-body chaos. So far the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Mike Blake , Hyunseok Lee , Hong Liu

The information scrambling in many-body systems is closely related to quantum chaotic dynamics, complexity, and gravity. Here we propose a collision model to simulate the information dynamics in an all-optical system. In our model the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Yan Li , Xingli Li , Jiasen Jin

We study whether a generic isolated quantum system initially set out of equilibrium can be considered as localized close to its initial state. Our approach considers the time evolution in the Krylov basis, which maps the dynamics onto that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Youssef Aziz Alaoui , Bruno Laburthe-Tolra

We investigate phase transitions in a non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with an imaginary chemical potential via Krylov spread complexity and Krylov fidelity. The spread witnesses the $\mathcal{PT}$-transition for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-11 E. Medina-Guerra , I. V. Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

Propagation of chaos for interacting particle systems has been an active research topic over decades. We propose an alternative approach to study the mean-field limit of the stochastic interacting particle systems via tools from information…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Lei Li , Yuelin Wang , Yuliang Wang

We point out an interesting connection between the mathematical framework of the Krylov basis, which is used to quantify quantum complexity, and the entanglement entropy in high-energy QCD. In particular, we observe that the cascade…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Pawel Caputa , Krzysztof Kutak

Krylov complexity, or K-complexity for short, has recently emerged as a new probe of chaos in quantum systems. It is a measure of operator growth in Krylov space, which conjecturally bounds the operator growth measured by the out of time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Anatoly Dymarsky , Michael Smolkin

The spreading of quantum information in closed systems, often termed scrambling, is a hallmark of many-body quantum dynamics. In open systems, scrambling competes with noise, errors and decoherence. Here, we provide a universal framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Thomas Schuster , Norman Y. Yao

Given a quantum many-body system with few-body interactions, how rapidly can quantum information be hidden during time evolution? The fast scrambling conjecture is that the time to thoroughly mix information among N degrees of freedom grows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-04 Gregory Bentsen , Yingfei Gu , Andrew Lucas

Open quantum systems can be described by unraveling Lindblad master equations into ensembles of quantum trajectories. Here we investigate how the complexity of such trajectories is affected by conservation laws and other dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Luca Lumia , Emanuele Tirrito , Mario Collura , Fabian H. L. Essler , Rosario Fazio

Information in a chaotic quantum system will scramble across the system, preventing any local measurement from reconstructing it. The scrambling dynamics is key to understanding a wide range of quantum many-body systems. Here we use Holevo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 J. -Z. Zhuang , Y. -K. Wu , L. -M. Duan

Complex quantum many-body dynamics spread initially localized quantum information across the entire system. Information scrambling refers to such a process, whose simulation is one of the promising applications of quantum computing. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Kazuhiro Seki , Yuta Kikuchi , Tomoya Hayata , Seiji Yunoki

Understanding the dynamics of quantum correlations in many-body systems is a central problem in non-equilibrium quantum physics. We study the spread of mixed-state entanglement in a minimal model of quantum chaos, the kicked field Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Tanay Pathak