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Quantum information stored in local operators spreads over other degrees of freedom of the system during time evolution, known as scrambling. This process is conveniently characterized by the out-of-time-order commutators (OTOC), whose time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Zoltán Okvátovity , Balázs Dóra

How fast quantum information scrambles such that it becomes inaccessible by local probes turns out to be central to various fields. Motivated by recent works on spin systems with nonlocal interactions, we study information scrambling in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Darvin Wanisch , Juan Diego Arias Espinoza , Stephan Fritzsche

Previous studies show that, in quantum chaotic and integrable systems, the so-called out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) generically behaves differently at long times, while, it may show similar early growth in one-body systems. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-19 Hua Yan , Jiaozi Wang , Wen-ge Wang

Evaluating the role of perturbations versus the intrinsic coherent dynamics in driving to equilibrium is of fundamental interest to understand quantum many-body thermalization, in the quest to build ever complex quantum devices. Here we…

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

We describe the dynamics of many-body quantum chaotic systems at all time scales by studying the Green's and out-of-time order correlation (OTOC) functions of the four-body, $N$-Majorana Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. By combining the scramblon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-Ping Zheng

The onset of quantum chaos in quantum field theory may be studied using out-of-time-order correlators at finite temperature. Recent work argued that a timescale logarithmic in the central charge emerged in the context of two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Chang Liu , David A. Lowe

The harmonic oscillator is the paragon of physical models; conceptually and computationally simple, yet rich enough to teach us about physics on scales that span classical mechanics to quantum field theory. This multifaceted nature extends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Wissam Chemissany , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Bin Yan

Out-of-time-order (OTO) operators have recently become popular diagnostics of quantum chaos in many-body systems. The usual way they are introduced is via a quantization of classical Lyapunov growth, which measures the divergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Jordan S. Cotler , Dawei Ding , Geoffrey R. Penington

We study out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) of local operators in spatial-temporal invariant or random quantum circuits using light-like generators (LLG) -- many-body operators that exist in and act along the light-like directions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Ke Huang , Xiao Li , David A. Huse , Amos Chan

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

It is a well-understood fact that the transport of excitations throughout a lattice is intimately governed by the underlying structures. Hence, it is only natural to recognize that also the dispersion of information has to depend on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Devjyoti Tripathy , Akram Touil , Bartłomiej Gardas , Sebastian Deffner

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

We extend the concept of operator charge in the context of an abelian U (1) symmetry and apply this framework to symmetry-preserving matrix product operators (MPOs), enabling the description of operators projected onto specific sectors of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-08 Martina Gisti , David J. Luitz , Maxime Debertolis

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), recently analyzed in several physical contexts, is studied for low-dimensional chaotic systems through semiclassical expansions and numerical simulations. The semiclassical expansion for the OTOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

We provide a protocol to measure out-of-time-order correlation functions. These correlation functions are of theoretical interest for diagnosing the scrambling of quantum information in black holes and strongly interacting quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Brian Swingle , Gregory Bentsen , Monika Schleier-Smith , Patrick Hayden

Dissipative quantum chaos plays a central role in the characterization and control of information scrambling, non-unitary evolution, and thermalization, but it still lacks a precise definition. The Grobe-Haake-Sommers conjecture, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Debabrata Mondal , Lea F. Santos , S. Sinha

Probing the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum matter has gained renewed interest owing to immense experimental progress in artifcial quantum systems. Dynamical quantum measures such as the growth of entanglement entropy (EE) and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-04-04 Pranjal Bordia , Fabien Alet , Pavan Hosur

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

Recently, the out-of-time-ordered correlator(OTOC) and Krylov complexity have been studied actively as a measure of operator growth. OTOC is known to exhibit exponential growth in chaotic systems, which was confirmed in many previous works.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Seungjoo Baek