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In many-body chaotic systems, the size of an operator generically grows in Heisenberg evolution, which can be measured by certain out-of-time-ordered four-point functions. However, these only provide a coarse probe of the full underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-18 Xiao-Liang Qi , Alexandre Streicher

We begin a systematic investigation of quench dynamics in higher-dimensional lattice systems considering the case of non-interacting fermions with conserved particle number. We prepare the system in a translational-invariant non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Molly Gibbins , Arash Jafarizadeh , Adam Gammon-Smith , Bruno Bertini

Via Monte Carlo simulations we study nonequilibrium dynamics in the nearest-neighbor Ising model, following quenches to points inside the ordered region of the phase diagram. With the broad objective of quantifying the nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Koyel Das , Nalina Vadakkayil , Subir K. Das

We investigate quench dynamics in a one-dimensional spin model, comparing both quantum and classical descriptions. Our primary focus is on the different timescales involved in the evolution of the observables as they approach statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-21 Fausto Borgonovi , Felix M. Izrailev , Lea F. Santos

Krylov complexity, as a novel measure of operator complexity under Heisenberg evolution, exhibits many interesting universal behaviors and also bounds many other complexity measures. In this work, we study Krylov complexity $\mathcal{K}(t)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Haifeng Tang

We study the quantum quench of the Yukawa Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and one of its lattice extensions with $q$ fermions and one boson. Several equilibrium properties are computed for general $q$ with different parameter scaling within the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Haixin Qiu , Stefan Kehrein

The entanglement in operator space is a well established measure for the complexity of the quantum many-body dynamics. In particular, that of local operators has recently been proposed as dynamical chaos indicator, i.e. as a quantity able…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Bruno Bertini , Pavel Kos , Tomaz Prosen

Spatiotemporal quenches are efficient at preparing ground states of critical Hamiltonians that have emergent low-energy descriptions with Lorentz invariance. The critical transverse field Ising model with nearest neighbor interactions, for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-09 Simon Bernier , Kartiek Agarwal

Operator spreading provides a new characterization of quantum chaos beyond the semi-classical limit. There are two complementary views of how the characteristic size of an operator, also known as the butterfly light cone, grows under…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Tianci Zhou , Éric Brunet , Xiaolin Qi

We study in general the time-evolution of correlation functions in a extended quantum system after the quench of a parameter in the hamiltonian. We show that correlation functions in d dimensions can be extracted using methods of boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

The dynamics of quantum systems unfolds within a subspace of the state space or operator space, known as the Krylov space. This review presents the use of Krylov subspace methods to provide an efficient description of quantum evolution and…

We study a quasi-Floquet state of a $\delta$-kicked rotor with absorbing boundaries focusing on the nature of the dynamical localization in open quantum systems. The localization lengths $\xi$ of lossy quasi-Floquet states located near the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jung-Wan Ryu , G. Hur , Sang Wook Kim

We consider operator growth for generic large-N gauge theories at finite temperature. Our analysis is performed in terms of Fourier modes, which do not mix with other operators as time evolves, and whose correlation functions are determined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Javier M. Magan , Joan Simon

This paper is a continuation of our previous paper [8], in which we have studied the dynamics of quantum correlations of two qubits embedded each into its own disordered multiconnected environment. We modeled the environment by random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Ekaterina Bratus , Leonid Pastur

We study the equilibration behavior following local quenches, using frustrated quantum spin chains as an example of interacting closed quantum systems. Specifically, we examine the statistics of the time series of the Loschmidt echo, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 Mathias Diez , Nicholas Chancellor , Stephan Haas , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

Quantum chaos refers to signatures of classical chaos found in the quantum domain. Recently, it has become common to equate the exponential behavior of out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) with quantum chaos. The quantum-classical…

We unravel the nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of two harmonically confined bosons in one spatial dimension when performing an interaction quench from finite repulsive to attractive interaction strengths and vice versa. A closed analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 L. Budewig , S. I. Mistakidis , P. Schmelcher

Localized unitary operators are basic probes of locality and causality in quantum systems: localized unitary operators create localized excitations in entangled states. Working with an explicit form, we explore the properties of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-27 Allic Sivaramakrishnan

In most lattice models, the closing of a band gap typically occurs at high-symmetry points in the Brillouin zone. Differently, in the Creutz model $-$ describing a system of spinless fermions hopping on a two-leg ladder pierced by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 R. Jafari , Henrik Johannesson , A. Langari , M. A. Martin-Delgado

In this work we develop a formalism for describing localised quanta for a real-valued Klein-Gordon field in a one-dimensional box $[0, R]$. We quantise the field using non-stationary local modes which, at some arbitrarily chosen initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Matias Rodriguez-Vazquez , Marco del Rey , Hans Westman , Juan Leon