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We study the Loschmidt echo (LE) of a coupled system consisting of a central spin and its surrounding environment described by a general XY spin-chain model. The quantum dynamics of the LE is shown to be remarkably influenced by the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Zi-Gang Yuan , Ping Zhang , Shu-Shen Li

The Bolztmann echo (BE) is a measure of irreversibility and sensitivity to perturbations for non-isolated systems. Recently, different regimes of this quantity were described for chaotic systems. There is a perturbative regime where the BE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-15 Ignacio Garcia-Mata , Bernardo Casabone , Diego A. Wisniacki

While divergence and renormalization of physical quantities are frequently encountered in quantum field theory (QFT), they are not necessarily quantum-specific characteristics. We show in this paper that there exists a classical counterpart…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 K. Xu , C. P. Sun

The Loschmidt echo - the probability of a quantum many-body system to return to its initial state following a dynamical evolution - generally contains key information about a quantum system, relevant across various scientific fields…

We study the Loschmidt echo for a system of electrons interacting through mean-field Coulomb forces. The electron gas is modeled by a self-consistent set of hydrodynamic equations. It is observed that the quantum fidelity drops abruptly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Manfredi , P. -A. Hervieux

We study the decay rate of the Loschmidt echo or fidelity in a chaotic system under a time-dependent perturbation $V(q,t)$ with typical strength $\hbar/\tau_{V}$. The perturbation represents the action of an uncontrolled environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando M. Cucchietti , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Horacio M. Pastawski

We study the temporal evolution of a central spin-1/2 (qubit) coupled to the environment which is chosen to be a spin-1/2 transverse XY spin chain. We explore the entire phase diagram of the spin-Hamiltonian and investigate the behavior of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shraddha Sharma , Victor Mukherjee , Amit Dutta

We study the connections between three quantities that can be used as diagnostics for quantum chaos, i.e., the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), Loschmidt echo (LE), and complexity. We generalize the connection between OTOC and LE for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-04 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Wissam Chemissany , S. Shajidul Haque , Bin Yan

The interplay between interactions and disorder in closed quantum many-body systems is relevant for thermalization phenomenon. In this article, we address this competition in an infinite temperature spin system, by means of the Loschmidt…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-12 Pablo R. Zangara , Axel D. Dente , Aníbal Iucci , Patricia R. Levstein , Horacio M. Pastawski

Non-Hermitian classical and open quantum systems near an exceptional point (EP) are known to undergo strong deviations in their dynamical behavior under small perturbations or slow cycling of parameters as compared to Hermitian systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Stefano Longhi

One of the fundamental manifestations of classical chaos is exponential sensitivity to initial conditions that is, two trajectories starting from nearly identical initial states diverge exponentially over time. This behavior is quantified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

We show that the three-junction SQUID device designed for the Josephson flux qubit can be used to study the dynamics of quantum chaos when operated at high energies. We determine the parameter region where the system is classically chaotic.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Ezequiel N. Pozzo , Daniel Dominguez

We study the Loschmidt echo F(t) for a class of dynamical systems showing critical chaos. Using a kicked rotor with singular potential as a prototype model, we found that the classical echo shows a gap (initial drop) 1-F_g where F_g scales…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-06-16 Carl T. West , Tomaz Prosen , Tsampikos Kottos

Gamow vectors have been developed in order to give a mathematical description for quantum decay phenomena. Mainly, they have been applied to radioactive phenomena, scattering and to some decoherence models. They play a crucial role in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Sebastian Fortin , Manuel Gadella , Federico Holik , Marcelo Losada

We study the non-equilibrium evolution of concurrence of a Bell pair constituted of two qubits, through the measurement of Loschmidt echo (LE) under the scope of generalized central spin model. Having detected the Griffiths phase via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Sudip Mukherjee , Tanay Nag

How does quantum chaos lead to rapid scrambling of information as well as systematic errors across a system when one introduces perturbations in the dynamics? What are its consequences for the reliability of quantum simulations and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Abinash Sahu , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Vaibhav Madhok

The Loschmidt echo is investigated to track the effect of the local QDP. It is also quite sensitive to whether the background dynamics is integrable or not. For the integrable case, viz. the Heisenberg model, the Loschmidt echo depends on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Saikat Sur , V. Subrahmanyam

An initial local excitation in a confined quantum system evolves exploring the whole system, returning to the initial position as a mesoscopic echo at the Heisenberg time. We consider a two weakly coupled spin chains, a spin ladder, where…

We unveil the role of the long time average of Loschmidt echo in the characterization of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions by studying sudden quench processes across quantum phase transitions in various quantum systems. While the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Bozhen Zhou , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

We provide analytical and numerical evidence that classical mixing systems which lack exponential sensitivity on initial conditions, exhibit universal decay of Loschmidt echo which turns out to be a function of a single scaled time variable…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulio Casati , Tomaz Prosen , Jinghua Lan , Baowen Li