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For the characterization of the dynamics in quantum many-body systems the question how information spreads and becomes distributed over the constituent degrees of freedom is of fundamental interest. The delocalization of information under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-12 Oskar Schnaack , Niklas Bölter , Sebastian Paeckel , Salvatore R. Manmana , Stefan Kehrein , Markus Schmitt

The delocalization or scrambling of quantum information has emerged as a central ingredient in the understanding of thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems. Recently, significant progress has been made analytically by modeling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-20 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Ramanjit Sohal , Laimei Nie

Operator scrambling is a crucial ingredient of quantum chaos. Specifically, in the quantum chaotic system, a simple operator can become increasingly complicated under unitary time evolution. This can be diagnosed by various measures such as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-25 Xiao Chen , Tianci Zhou

The dynamical spreading of quantum information through a many-body system, typically called scrambling, is a complex process that has proven to be essential to describe many properties of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems. Scrambling can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Philip Daniel Blocher , Karthik Chinni , Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , Pablo M. Poggi

We present a general theory of quantum information propagation in chaotic quantum many-body systems. The generic expectation in such systems is that quantum information does not propagate in localized form; instead, it tends to spread out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-05 Josiah Couch , Stefan Eccles , Phuc Nguyen , Brian Swingle , Shenglong Xu

A possible solution of the information paradox can be sought in quantum information scrambling. In this paradigm, it is postulated that all information entering a black hole is rapidly and chaotically distributed across the event horizon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

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

Quantum information is scrambled via chaotic time evolution in many-body systems. The recovery of initial information embedded locally in the system from the scrambled quantum state is a fundamental concern in many contexts. From a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Hiroyasu Tajima , Keiji Saito

Information scrambling refers to the unitary dynamics that quickly spreads and encodes localized quantum information over an entire many-body system and makes the information accessible from any small subsystem. While information scrambling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-30 Yoshifumi Nakata , Masaki Tezuka

In a fast scrambling many-body quantum system, information is spread and entanglement is built up on a timescale that grows logarithmically with the system size. This is of fundamental interest in understanding the dynamics of many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Sridevi Kuriyattil , Tomohiro Hashizume , Gregory Bentsen , Andrew J. Daley

This tutorial article introduces the physics of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. The goals are to understand how to precisely quantify the spreading of quantum information and how causality emerges in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

We review recent progress in attaining a quantitative understanding of the scarring phenomenon, the non-random behavior of quantum wavefunctions near unstable periodic orbits of a classically chaotic system. The wavepacket dynamics…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

Quantum information scrambling (QIS), from the perspective of quantum information theory, is generally understood as local non-retrievability of information evolved through some dynamical process, and is often quantified via entropic…

Randomness generation through quantum-chaotic evolution underpins foundational questions in statistical mechanics and applications across quantum information science, including benchmarking, tomography, metrology, and demonstrations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-01 Souradeep Ghosh , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

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

Scrambling unitary dynamics in a quantum system transmutes local quantum information into a non-local web of correlations which manifests itself in a complex spatio-temporal pattern of entanglement. In such a context, we show there can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alan Sherry , Sthitadhi Roy

Entanglement is a defining feature of many-body quantum systems and is an essential requirement for quantum computing. It is therefore useful to study physical processes which generate entanglement within a large system, as they maybe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Gaurav Rudra Malik , Rohit Kumar Shukla , S. Aravinda , Sunil Kumar Mishra

A non-ergodic quantum state of a many body system is in general random as well as multi-parametric, former due to a lack of exact information due to complexity and latter reflecting its varied behavior in different parts of the Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Devanshu Shekhar , Pragya Shukla

Quantum speed limits set an upper bound to the rate at which a quantum system can evolve and as such can be used to analyze the scrambling of information. To this end, we consider the survival probability of a thermofield double state under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-27 A. del Campo , J. Molina-Vilaplana , J. Sonner

Noise on quantum devices is much more complex than it is commonly given credit. Far from usual models of decoherence, nearly all quantum devices are plagued both by a continuum of environments and temporal instabilities. These induce noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Gregory A. L. White , Petar Jurcevic , Charles D. Hill , Kavan Modi