Imprints of information scrambling on eigenstates of a quantum chaotic system

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02853v1
• Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:57:23 GMT
• Title: Imprints of information scrambling on eigenstates of a quantum chaotic system
• Authors: Bikram Pain, Ratul Thakur, Sthitadhi Roy,
• Abstract summary: We show how the eigenstates of a chaotic system can encode the full anatomy of quantum chaos.<n>Our work goes beyond the descriptions offered by random matrix theory and the eigenstatetemporal thermalisation hypothesis.
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• Abstract: How are the spatial and temporal patterns of information scrambling in locally interacting quantum many-body systems imprinted on the eigenstates of the system's time-evolution operator? We address this question by identifying statistical correlations among sets of minimally four eigenstates that provide a unified framework for various measures of information scrambling. These include operator mutual information and operator entanglement entropy of the time-evolution operator, as well as more conventional diagnostics such as two-point dynamical correlations and out-of-time-ordered correlators. We demonstrate this framework by deriving exact results for eigenstate correlations in a minimal model of quantum chaos -- Floquet dual-unitary circuits. These results reveal not only the butterfly effect and the information lightcone, but also finer structures of scrambling within the lightcone. Our work thus shows how the eigenstates of a chaotic system can encode the full spatiotemporal anatomy of quantum chaos, going beyond the descriptions offered by random matrix theory and the eigenstate thermalisation hypothesis.

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