Operator front broadening in chaotic and integrable quantum chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13414v2
• Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:18:22 GMT
• Title: Operator front broadening in chaotic and integrable quantum chains
• Authors: Javier Lopez-Piqueres, Brayden Ware, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Romain Vasseur
• Abstract summary: We analyze operator spreading in generic 1D many-body quantum systems. We find that while the operator front broadens diffusively in both integrable and chaotic interacting spin chains, the precise shape and scaling of the height of the front is anomalous for all accessible times.
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• Abstract: Operator spreading under unitary time evolution has attracted a lot of attention recently, as a way to probe many-body quantum chaos. While quantities such as out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) do distinguish interacting from non-interacting systems, it has remained unclear to what extent they can truly diagnose chaotic {\it vs} integrable dynamics in many-body quantum systems. Here, we analyze operator spreading in generic 1D many-body quantum systems using a combination of matrix product operator (MPO) and analytical techniques, focusing on the operator {\em right-weight}. First, we show that while small bond dimension MPOs allow one to capture the exponentially-decaying tail of the operator front, in agreement with earlier results, they lead to significant quantitative and qualitative errors for the actual front -- defined by the maximum of the right-weight. We find that while the operator front broadens diffusively in both integrable and chaotic interacting spin chains, the precise shape and scaling of the height of the front in integrable systems is anomalous for all accessible times. We interpret these results using a quasiparticle picture. This provides a sharp, though rather subtle signature of many-body quantum chaos in the operator front.

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