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Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) describe information scrambling under unitary time evolution, and provide a useful probe of the emergence of quantum chaos. Here we calculate OTOCs for a model of disorder-free localization whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Adam Smith , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner , Dmitry L. Kovrizhin

Using the parametric representation of a chaotic many-body quantum system derived earlier, we calculate explicitly the large-time dependence and asymptotic value of the out-of-time correlator (OTOC) of that system. The dependence on time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Hans A. Weidenmüller

We study out of time ordered correlators (OTOC) in a free fermionic model with a quasi-periodic potential. This model is equivalent to the Aubry-Andr\'e model and features a phase transition from an extended phase to a localized phase at a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-28 Jonathon Riddell , Erik S. Sørensen

The time-dependence of multi-point observable correlation functions are essential quantities in analysis and simulation of quantum dynamics. Open quantum systems approaches utilize two-point correlations to describe the influence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yoana R. Chorbadzhiyska , Peter A. Ivanov , Charlie Nation

We compute Out-of-Time-Order correlators (OTOCs) for conformal field theories (CFTs) subjected to either continuous or discrete periodic drive protocols. This is achieved by an appropriate analytic continuation of the stroboscopic time.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Suchetan Das , Bobby Ezhuthachan , Arnab Kundu , Somnath Porey , Baishali Roy , K. Sengupta

The scrambling of quantum information in closed many-body systems, as measured by out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs), has lately received considerable attention. Recently, a hydrodynamical description of OTOCs has emerged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann , C. W. von Keyserlingk

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), defined via the squared commutator of a time-evolving and a stationary operator, represent observables that provide useful indicators for chaos and the scrambling of information in complex quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Thomas R. Michel , Juan Diego Urbina , Peter Schlagheck

The out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) is used to study the quantum phase transitions (QPTs) between the normal phase and the superradiant phase in the Rabi and few-body Dicke models with large frequency ratio of theatomic level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Zheng-Hang Sun , Jia-Qi Cai , Qi-Cheng Tang , Yong Hu , Heng Fan

Understanding quantum chaos is of profound theoretical interest and carries significant implications for various applications, from condensed matter physics to quantum error correction. Recently, out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs) have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Naga Dileep Varikuti

We consider the Brownian SYK model of $N$ interacting Majorana fermions, with random couplings that are taken to vary independently at each time. We study the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) of arbitrary observables and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Christoph Sünderhauf , Lorenzo Piroli , Xiao-Liang Qi , Norbert Schuch , J. Ignacio Cirac

We provide a detailed examination of a thermal out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) growing exponentially in time in systems without chaos. The system is a one-dimensional quantum mechanics with a potential whose part is an inverted harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Koji Hashimoto , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Keun-Young Kim , Ryota Watanabe

The vast majority of dynamical systems in classical physics are chaotic and exhibit the butterfly effect: a minute change in initial conditions can soon have exponentially large effects elsewhere. But this phenomenon is difficult to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Efim B. Rozenbaum , Leonid A. Bunimovich , Victor Galitski

Recent experimental and theoretical developments in many-body quantum systems motivate the study of their out-of-equilibrium properties through multi-time correlation functions. We consider the dynamics of higher-order out-of-time-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Felix Fritzsch , Pieter W. Claeys

We present a protocol to experimentally measure the infinite-temperature out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) -- which is a probe of quantum information scrambling in a system -- for systems with a Hamiltonian which has either a chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-29 Bhuvanesh Sundar

Scrambling, a process in which quantum information spreads over a complex quantum system becoming inaccessible to simple probes, happens in generic chaotic quantum many-body systems, ranging from spin chains, to metals, even to black holes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

Motivated by the famous ink-drop experiment, where ink droplets are used to determine the chaoticity of a fluid, we propose an experimentally implementable method for measuring the scrambling capacity of quantum processes. Here, a system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Magdalini Zonnios , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

In this paper, the out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) in quantum harmonic oscillators are calculated analytically by second quantization method in perturbative approximation. We consider the coupled harmonic oscillators and anharmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Wung-Hong Huang

The field of information scrambling has seen significant growth over the last decade, where the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has emerged as a prominent tool to probe it. In this work, we use bipartite OTOC, a particular form of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

We use the out-of-time-order (OTO) correlators to study the slow dynamics in the many-body localized (MBL) phase. We investigate OTO correlators in the effective ("l-bit") model of the MBL phase, and show that their amplitudes after…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-15 Xiao Chen , Tianci Zhou , David A. Huse , Eduardo Fradkin

Generic systems are associated with a mixed classical phase space.The question of the properties of the eigenstates for these systems remains less known, although it plays a key role for understanding several important quantum phenomena…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Qian Wang , Marko Robnik