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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

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is central to the understanding of information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. In this work, we show that the OTOC in a quantum many-body system close to its critical point obeys dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Bo-Bo Wei , Gaoyong Sun , Myung-Joong Hwang

Two topics, evolving rapidly in separate fields, were combined recently: The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) signals quantum-information scrambling in many-body systems. The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability represents operators in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 Nicole Yunger Halpern , Brian Swingle , Justin Dressel

We show that the out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) $ \langle W(t)^\dagger V(0)^\dagger W(t)V(0)\rangle$ in many-body localized (MBL) and marginal MBL systems can be efficiently calculated by the spectrum bifurcation renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-03 Kevin Slagle , Zhen Bi , Yi-Zhuang You , Cenke Xu

We study the dynamics of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) and entanglement of entropy as quantitative measures of information propagation in disordered many-body systems exhibiting Floquet time-crystal (FTC) phases. We find that OTOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Himanshu Sahu , Fernando Iemini

Information scrambling, which is the spread of local information through a system's many-body degrees of freedom, is an intrinsic feature of many-body dynamics. In quantum systems, the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) quantifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Andreas Elben , Lata Kh Joshi , Torsten V. Zache

We use out-of-time-order commutator (OTOC) to diagnose the propagation of chaos in one dimensional long-range power law interaction system. We map the evolution of OTOC to a classical stochastic dynamics problem and use a Brownian quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-12 Xiao Chen , Tianci Zhou

The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) quantifies information scrambling in quantum systems and serves as a key diagnostic of quantum chaos. In one-body systems with a classical counterpart, the relaxation of the OTOC is governed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jerónimo Duarte , Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

We consider the time evolution of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) of two general observables $A$ and $B$ in a mean field chaotic quantum system described by a random Wigner matrix as its Hamiltonian. We rigorously identify three…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Giorgio Cipolloni , László Erdős , Joscha Henheik

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have been proposed to characterize quantum chaos in generic systems. However, they can also show interesting behavior in integrable models, resembling the OTOC in chaotic systems in some aspects. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Cheng-Ju Lin , Olexei I. Motrunich

An important step towards a comprehensive understanding of far-from-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems is the identification of unifying features that are independent of microscopic details of the system. We experimentally…

We propose a method based on the discrete truncated Wigner approximation (DTWA) for computing out-of-time-order correlators. This method is applied to long-range interacting quantum spin systems where the interactions decay as a power law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-21 Tatsuhiko Shirai , Takashi Mori

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

In this paper we first compute the out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) for both a phenomenological model and a random-field XXZ model in the many-body localized phase. We show that the OTOC decreases in power law in a many-body localized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-12 Ruihua Fan , Pengfei Zhang , Huitao Shen , Hui Zhai

The emergence of the arrow of time in quantum many-body systems stems from the inherent tendency of Hamiltonian evolution to scramble quantum information and increase entanglement. While, in principle, one might counteract this temporal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Yu-Chen Li , Tian-Gang Zhou , Shengyu Zhang , Ze Wu , Liqiang Zhao , Haochuan Yin , Xiaoxue An , Hui Zhai , Pengfei Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Controllable arrays of ions and ultra-cold atoms can simulate complex many-body phenomena and may provide insights into unsolved problems in modern science. To this end, experimentally feasible protocols for quantifying the buildup of…

Interactions of isolated quantum many-body systems typically scramble local information into the entire system and make it unrecoverable. Ergodicity-breaking systems possess the potential to exhibit fundamentally different information…

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a powerful tool for probing quantum information scrambling, a fundamental process by which local information spreads irreversibly throughout a quantum many-body system. Experimentally measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Haruki Emori , Hiroyasu Tajima

Quantum scrambling measured by out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has an important role in understanding the physics of black holes and evaluating quantum chaos. It is known that Rydberg atom has been a general interest due to its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Daattavya Aggarwal , Shivam Raj , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

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