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We study the dynamics of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) and entanglement of entropy as quantitative measures of information propagation in disordered many-body systems exhibiting Floquet time-crystal (FTC) phases. We find that OTOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Himanshu Sahu , Fernando Iemini

Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) quantify quantum information scrambling, but their connection to localized phase-space structures, such as chemical transition states, requires formal development. We derive a leading-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Stephen Wiggins

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

Fast scrambling, quantified by the exponential initial growth of Out-of-Time-Ordered-Correlators (OTOCs), is the ability to efficiently spread quantum correlations among the degrees of freedom of interacting systems, and constitutes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Felix Meier , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Daniel Waltner , Thomas Guhr

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) can be used to probe how quickly a quantum system scrambles information when the initial conditions of the dynamics are changed. In sufficiently large quantum systems, one can extract from the OTOC the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Chenghao Zhang , Peter G. Wolynes , Martin Gruebele

We systematically study moving mirror models in two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). By focusing on their late-time behavior, we separate the mirror profiles into four classes, named type A (timelike) mirrors, type B (escaping)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Ibrahim Akal , Taishi Kawamoto , Shan-Ming Ruan , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

There is a well-known correspondence between the physics of black hole evaporation and that of moving mirrors in QFT. However, most analyses in this subject rely on prescribed mirror trajectories. Here, we study the flat-space dynamics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-06 Piyush Kumar , Ignacio A. Reyes , Jakob Wintergerst

The spatiotemporal evolution of the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) measures the propagation and scrambling of local quantum information. For the transverse field Ising model with open boundaries, the local operator $\sigma^{x}$ shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-12 Samudra Sur , Diptiman Sen

Quantum measurement is a process that involves the interaction between a quantum system and a macroscopic measurement apparatus containing many degrees of freedom. The photodetector is such an apparatus with many electrons interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Yubao Liu , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma

Information scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC), has attracted much attention, as it sheds new light on chaotic dynamics in quantum many-body systems. The scale invariance, which appears near the quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 Shunsuke Nakamura , Eiki Iyoda , Tetsuo Deguchi , Takahiro Sagawa

Fast scrambling of quantum correlations, reflected by the exponential growth of Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) on short pre-Ehrenfest time scales, is commonly considered as a major quantum signature of unstable dynamics in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Mathias Steinhuber , Peter Schlagheck , Juan-Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

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 investigate both theoretically and numerically the dynamics of Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators (OTOCs) in quantum resonance condition for a kicked rotor model. We employ various operators to construct OTOCs in order to thoroughly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Guanling Li , Wen-Lei Zhao

We investigate both analytically and numerically the dynamics of quantum scrambling, characterized by the out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), in a non-Hermitian quantum kicked rotor subject to quantum resonance conditions. Analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Wen-Lei Zhao , Jie Liu

We study operator growth in a bipartite kicked coupled tops (KCT) system using out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), which quantify ``information scrambling" due to chaotic dynamics and serve as a quantum analog of classical Lyapunov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

Quantum scrambling is the dispersal of local information into many-body quantum entanglements and correlations distributed throughout the entire system. This concept underlies the dynamics of thermalization in closed quantum systems, and…

We study the scrambling properties of $(d+1)$-dimensional hyperbolic black holes. Using the eikonal approximation, we calculate out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) for a Rindler-AdS geometry with AdS radius $\ell$, which is dual to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Yongjun Ahn , Viktor Jahnke , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim

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

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC), vigorously being explored as a measure of quantum chaos and information scrambling, is studied here in the natural and simplest multi-particle context of bipartite systems. We show that two strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Ravi Prakash , Arul Lakshminarayan

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