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Quantum information scrambling under many-body dynamics is of fundamental interest. The tripartite mutual information can quantify the scrambling via its negative value. Here, we first study the quench dynamics of tripartite mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Zheng-Hang Sun , Jian Cui , Heng Fan

Jamming is a phenomenon shared by a wide variety of systems, such as granular materials, foams, and glasses in their high density regime. This has motivated the development of a theoretical framework capable of explaining many of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-24 Rafael Díaz Hernández Rojas , Giorgio Parisi , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

We formulate a kinetic theory of quantum information scrambling in the context of a paradigmatic model of interacting electrons in the vicinity of a superconducting phase transition. We carefully derive a set of coupled partial differential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-05 Camille Aron , Eric Brunet , Aditi Mitra

Quantum pseudorandom state generators (PRSGs) have stimulated exciting developments in recent years. A PRSG, on a fixed initial (e.g., all-zero) state, produces an output state that is computationally indistinguishable from a Haar random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Chuhan Lu , Minglong Qin , Fang Song , Penghui Yao , Mingnan Zhao

Recently, physicists have started applying quantum information theory to black holes. This led to the conjecture that black holes are the fastest scramblers of information, and that they scramble it in time order M log M, where M is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Peter W. Shor

Operator scrambling, which governs the spread of quantum information in many-body systems, is a central concept in both condensed matter and high-energy physics. Accurately capturing the emergent properties of these systems remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tianfeng Feng , Yue Cao , Qi Zhao

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

We study the time-evolution of cumulants of velocities and kinetic energies in the stochastic Kac model for velocity exchange of $N$ particles, with the aim of quantifying how fast these degrees of freedom become chaotic in a time scale in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Jani Lukkarinen , Aleksis Vuoksenmaa

We demonstrate that generalized entanglement [Barnum {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 68}, 032308 (2003)] provides a natural and reliable indicator of quantum chaotic behavior. Since generalized entanglement depends directly on a choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaakov S. Weinstein , Lorenza Viola

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

Information scrambling refers to the propagation of information throughout a quantum system. Its study not only contributes to our understanding of thermalization but also has wide implications in quantum information and black hole physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Zeyu Liu , Pengfei Zhang

We introduce and analytically illustrate that hitherto unexplored imaginary components of out-of-time correlators can provide unprecedented insight into the information scrambling capacity of a graph neural network. Furthermore, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Manas Sajjan , Vinit Singh , Raja Selvarajan , Sabre Kais

Quantum information scrambling, typically explored in closed quantum systems, describes the spread of initially localized information throughout a system and can be quantified by measures such as the Loschmidt echo (LE) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yi-Neng Zhou , Chang Liu

Controlling entanglement and coherence is central to quantum information, yet the two resources often exhibit antagonistic trends and are difficult to optimize within a single platform. Here we show that chaos enables switchable eigenstate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kyu-Won Park , Soojoon Lee , Kabgyun Jeong

Herding defines a deterministic dynamical system at the edge of chaos. It generates a sequence of model states and parameters by alternating parameter perturbations with state maximizations, where the sequence of states can be interpreted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-02 Yutian Chen , Max Welling

A version of scattering theory that was developed many years ago to treat nuclear scattering processes, has provided a powerful tool to study universality in scattering processes involving open quantum systems with underlying classically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 L. E. Reichl , G. Akguc

We adopt a continuous weak measurement tomography protocol to explore the signatures of chaos in the quantum system(s). We generate the measurement record as a series of expectation values of an observable evolving under the desired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Abinash Sahu

We study the universal structure of late-time ensembles obtained from unitary dynamics in quantum chaotic systems with symmetries, such as charge or energy conservation. We find that although quantum states do not ergodically explore the…

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

Quenched disorder slows down the scrambling of quantum information. Using a bottom-up approach, we formulate a kinetic theory of scrambling in a correlated metal near a superconducting transition, following the scrambling dynamics as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-13 Camille Aron , Éric Brunet , Aditi Mitra