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Scrambling is a diagnostic of quantum chaos in strongly coupled systems, and plays a central role in the holographic description of black hole dynamics. We study scrambling in high-temperature holographic CFTs, with an emphasis on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Juan Hernandez , Andrew Rolph

We investigate various geometrical aspects of the notion of `optical depth' in the thermal atmosphere of black hole horizons. Optical depth has been proposed as a measure of fast-crambling times in such black hole systems, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. L. F. Barbon , J. M. Magan

Moving mirrors have been known as tractable setups modeling Hawking radiation from black holes. In this paper, motivated by recent developments regarding the black hole information problem, we present extensive studies of moving mirrors in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Ibrahim Akal , Yuya Kusuki , Noburo Shiba , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

Thermalization of chaotic quantum many-body systems under unitary time evolution is related to the growth in complexity of initially simple Heisenberg operators. Operator growth is a manifestation of information scrambling and can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

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

Motivated by the question of whether all fast scramblers are holographically dual to quantum gravity, we study the dynamics of a non-integrable spin chain model composed of two ingredients - a nearest neighbor Ising coupling, and an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-05 Zehan Li , Sayan Choudhury , W. Vincent Liu

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are an effective tool in characterizing black hole chaos, many-body thermalization and quantum dynamics instability. Previous research findings have shown that the OTOCs' exponential growth (EG) marks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Wen-Lei Zhao , Yue Hu , Zhi Li , Qian Wang

We investigate the dynamics of quantum scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), in a non-Hermitian quantum kicked rotor subjected to quasi-periodical modulation in kicking potential. Quasi-periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Liang Huo , Han Ke , Wen-Lei Zhao

Fast scramblers process information in characteristic times scaling logarithmically with the entropy, a behavior which has been conjectured for black hole horizons. In this note we use the AdS/CFT fold to argue that causality bounds on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Jose L. F. Barbon , Javier M. Magan

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) that capture maximally chaotic properties of a black hole are determined by scattering processes near the horizon. This prompts the question to what extent OTOCs display chaotic behaviour in horizonless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-11 Ben Craps , Marine De Clerck , Philip Hacker , Kévin Nguyen , Charles Rabideau

The out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) and entanglement are two physically motivated and widely used probes of the "scrambling" of quantum information, a phenomenon that has drawn great interest recently in quantum gravity and many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Aram W. Harrow , Linghang Kong , Zi-Wen Liu , Saeed Mehraban , Peter W. Shor

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have proven to be a useful tool for studying thermalisation in quantum systems. In particular, the exponential growth of OTOCS, or scrambling, is sometimes taken as an indicator of chaos in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 R. A. Kidd , A. Safavi-Naini , J. F. Corney

Out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs) and their higher-order generalizations present important probes of quantum information dynamics and scrambling. We introduce a solvable many-body quantum model, which we term boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Felix Fritzsch , Gabriel O. Alves , Michael A. Rampp , Pieter W. Claeys

We study information scrambling -- a spread of initially localized quantum information into the system's many degree of freedom -- in discrete-time quantum walks. We consider out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) and K-complexity as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Himanshu Sahu

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

We compute out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in two-dimensional holographic conformal field theories (CFTs) with different left- and right-moving temperatures. Depending on whether the CFT lives on a spatial line or circle, the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-23 Ben Craps , Surbhi Khetrapal , Charles Rabideau

Quantum dynamics is of fundamental interest and has implications in quantum information processing. The four-point out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is traditionally used to quantify quantum information scrambling under many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Roy J. Garcia , You Zhou , Arthur Jaffe

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

The study of information scrambling in many-body systems has sharpened our understanding of quantum chaos, complexity and gravity. Here, we extend the framework for exploring information scrambling to infinite dimensional continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Quntao Zhuang , Thomas Schuster , Beni Yoshida , Norman Y. Yao

We study information scrambling, as diagnosed by the out-of-time order correlations (OTOCs), in a system of large spins collectively interacting via spatially inhomogeneous and incommensurate exchange couplings. The model is realisable in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-22 J. Marino , A. M. Rey
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