Out-of-Time-Order Correlation as a Witness for Topological Phase Transitions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00927v1
• Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 07:57:22 GMT
• Title: Out-of-Time-Order Correlation as a Witness for Topological Phase Transitions
• Authors: Qian Bin, Liang-Liang Wan, Franco Nori, Ying Wu, Xin-You L\"u
• Abstract summary: We propose a physical witness for dynamically detecting topological phase transitions (TPTs) via an experimentally observable out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) The distinguishable OTOC dynamics appears in the topological trivial and non-trivial phases due to the topological locality. Our work fundamentally brings the OTOC in the realm of TPTs, and offers the prospect of exploring new topological physics with quantum correlations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We propose a physical witness for dynamically detecting topological phase transitions (TPTs) via an experimentally observable out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC). The distinguishable OTOC dynamics appears in the topological trivial and non-trivial phases due to the topological locality. In the long-time limit, the OTOC undergoes a {\it zero-to-finite-value transition} at the critical point of the TPTs. This transition is robust to the choices of the initial state of the system and the used operators in OTOC. The proposed OTOC witness can be applied into the systems with and without chiral symmetry, e.g., the lattices described by the SSH model, Creutz model, and Haldane model. Moreover, our proposal, as a physical witness in real space, is still valid even in the presence of disorder. Our work fundamentally brings the OTOC in the realm of TPTs, and offers the prospect of exploring new topological physics with quantum correlations.

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