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Developing quantum technologies requires the control and understanding of the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum information in many-body systems. Local information propagates in the system by creating complex correlations known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Federico D. Domínguez , Gonzalo A. Álvarez

This is the first part of an investigation concerning the formulation of 2D gravity in the framework of the uniformization theory of Riemann surfaces. As a first step in this direction we show that the classical Liouville action appears in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Matone

Timelike Liouville field theory (also known as imaginary Liouville theory or imaginary Gaussian multiplicative chaos) is expected to describe two-dimensional quantum gravity in a positive-curvature regime, but its path integral is not a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Sourav Chatterjee

Liouville conformal field theory is a prototypical example of an exactly solvable quantum field theory, in the sense that the correlation functions in an arbitrary background can be determined exactly using only the constraints of unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney , Viraj Meruliya

We find that the effective dimension of the Wasserstein space of energy eigenstates decreases as a quantum system becomes more chaotic. To demonstrate this, we study a quantum coupled harmonic oscillator system using Husimi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Koji Hashimoto , Norihiro Tanahashi , Kentaroh Yoshida

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

Finding suitable characterizations of quantum chaos is a major challenge in many-body physics, with a central difficulty posed by the linearity of the Schr\"odinger equation. A possible solution for recovering non-linearity is to project…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Sebastian Leontica , Andrew G. Green

We study the quantum aspects of the conformal gravity in four dimensions, specifically addressing a known discrepancy in beta functions between general quadratic curvature theories and conformal gravity, which corresponds to two scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Hikaru Kawai , Nobuyoshi Ohta

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

In this paper we describe an algebraic/geometrical approach to quantum scrambling. Generalized quantum subsystems are described by an hermitian-closed unital subalgebra $\cal A$ of operators evolving through a unitary channel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Paolo Zanardi

Originating in theoretical physics, Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) has been an important topic in probability theory and mathematical physics in the past two decades. In this proceeding, we review two aspects of this topic. The first is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Nina Holden , Xin Sun

This work develops a symplectic framework for quantum computing to be applied to classical Hamiltonian systems, exploiting the intrinsic geometric compatibility between unitary quantum evolution and symplectic phase-space dynamics in a…

We compute the scrambling rate at the antiferromagnetic (AFM) quantum critical point, using the fixed point theory of Phys. Rev. X $\boldsymbol{7}$, 021010 (2017). At this strongly coupled fixed point, there is an emergent control parameter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Peter Lunts , Aavishkar A. Patel

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

Focusing on semiclassical systems, we show that the parametrically long exponential growth of out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs), also known as scrambling, does not necessitate chaos. Indeed, scrambling can simply result from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-09 Tianrui Xu , Thomas Scaffidi , Xiangyu Cao

An area-preserving map of the unit sphere, consisting of alternating twists and turns, is mostly chaotic. A Liouville density on that sphere is specified by means of its expansion into spherical harmonics. That expansion initially…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Asher Peres , Daniel Terno

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

In this paper, we look for signatures of quantum revivals in two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) on a spatially compact manifold by using operator entanglement. It is believed that thermalization does not occur on spatially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Kanato Goto , Ali Mollabashi , Masahiro Nozaki , Kotaro Tamaoka , Mao Tian Tan

It was proposed recently that the out-of-time-ordered four-point correlator (OTOC) may serve as a useful characteristic of quantum-chaotic behavior, because in the semi-classical limit, $\hbar \to 0$, its rate of exponential growth…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-22 Efim B. Rozenbaum , Sriram Ganeshan , Victor Galitski

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