Operator growth from global out-of-time-order correlators

Tianci Zhou () and Brian Swingle
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Tianci Zhou: University of California
Brian Swingle: Brandeis University

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract In chaotic many-body systems, scrambling or the operator growth can be diagnosed by out-of-time-order correlators of local operators. We show that operator growth also has a sharp imprint in out-of-time-order correlators of global operators. In particular, the characteristic spacetime shape of growing local operators can be accessed using global measurements without any local control or readout. Building on an earlier conjectured phase diagram for operator growth in chaotic systems with power-law interactions, we show that existing nuclear spin data for out-of-time-order correlators of global operators are well fit by our theory. We also predict super-polynomial operator growth in dipolar systems in 3d and discuss the potential observation of this physics in future experiments with nuclear spins and ultra-cold polar molecules.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39065-5

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