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The Out-of-Time-Order Correlator (OTOC) is a standard algebraic diagnostic of quantum information scrambling, but it offers limited direct geometric intuition. In this note, we propose a Bohmian, trajectory-based framework for constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Wiggins

Scrambling of information in a quantum many-body system, quantified by the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC), is a key manifestation of quantum chaos. A regime of exponential growth in the OTOC, characterized by a Lyapunov exponent, has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Anna Keselman , Laimei Nie , Erez Berg

Exponential growth in the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is an important potential signature of quantum chaos. The OTOC is quite simple to calculate for squeezed states, whose applications are frequently found in quantum optics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

Classical chaotic systems exhibit exponentially diverging trajectories due to small differences in their initial state. The analogous diagnostic in quantum many-body systems is an exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-06 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Stephan Plugge , Oguzhan Can , Marcel Franz

We show that out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) constitute a probe for Local-Operator Entanglement (LOE). There is strong evidence that a volumetric growth of LOE is a faithful dynamical indicator of quantum chaos, while OTOC decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Neil Dowling , Pavel Kos , Kavan Modi

The out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) function is an important new probe in quantum field theory which is treated as a significant measure of random quantum correlations. In this paper, with the slogan "Cosmology meets Condensed Matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-17 Sayantan Choudhury

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

We construct an effective field theory (EFT) that captures the universal behavior of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) at late times in generic quantum many-body systems with conservation laws. The EFT hinges on a generalization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Ruchira Mishra , Jiaozi Wang , Silvia Pappalardi , Luca V. Delacrétaz

The exponential growth of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has been proposed as a quantum signature of classical chaos. The growth rate is expected to coincide with the classical Lyapunov exponent. This quantum-classical…

We show that the most important measures of quantum chaos like frame potentials, scrambling, Loschmidt echo, and out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) can be described by the unified framework of the isospectral twirling, namely the Haar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Lorenzo Leone , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Alioscia Hamma

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

In this paper we investigate measures of chaos and entanglement in rational conformal field theories in 1+1 dimensions. First, we derive a universal formula for the late time value of the out-of-time-ordered correlators for this class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-20 Pawel Caputa , Tokiro Numasawa , Alvaro Veliz-Osorio

We study how probes of quantum scrambling dynamics respond to two kinds of imperfections -- unequal forward and backward evolutions and decoherence -- in a solvable Brownian circuit model. We calculate a ``renormalized'' out-of-time-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Nadie Yiluo LiTenn , Tianci Zhou , Brian Swingle

We use a combination of analytical and numerical methods to study out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) in the sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We find that at a given order of N , the standard result for the q-local, all-to-all SYK,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-30 Elena Cáceres , Tyler Guglielmo , Brian Kent , Anderson Misobuchi

The growth of information scrambling, captured by out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), is a central indicator of the nature of many-body quantum dynamics. Here, we compute analytically the complete time dependence of the OTOC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-ping Zheng

We study numerically and analytically the time dependence and saturation of out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOC) in chaotic few-body quantum-mechanical systems: quantum Henon-Heiles system (weakly chaotic), BMN matrix quantum mechanics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Dragan Marković , Mihailo Čubrović

We revisit thermal out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in single-particle quantum systems, focusing on magnetic billiards. Using the stadium billiard as a testbed, we compute the thermal OTOC $C_T(t) = -\langle [x(t), p]^2 \rangle_\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Cameron Beetar , Jeff Murugan

Many quantitative approaches to the dynamical scrambling of information in quantum systems involve the study of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs). In this paper, we introduce an algebraic OTOC ($\mathcal{A}$-OTOC) that allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Faidon Andreadakis , Namit Anand , Paolo Zanardi

We establish that there are properties of quantum many-body dynamics which are efficiently learnable if we are given access to out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), but which require exponentially many operations in the system size if we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Jordan Cotler , Thomas Schuster , Masoud Mohseni

We investigate the out-of-time ordered correlators and Loschmidt echo in a non-Hermitian interacting system governed by a Gross-Pitaevskii map model, which incorporates a periodically modulated complex strength of the nonlinear interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Wen-Lei Zhao , Chao Han , Han Ke , Jie Liu