Instabilities in a Non-KAM System via Information Scrambling: A Note

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12761v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:05 GMT
• Title: Instabilities in a Non-KAM System via Information Scrambling: A Note
• Abstract summary: We study operator growth in quantized non-KAM systems using out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs)<n>We find a number-theoretic structure emerging in the behavior of OTOCs, governed by the Euler totient function of the frequency ratio.
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• Abstract: We study operator growth in quantized non-KAM systems using out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), focusing on the kicked harmonic oscillator as a representative example. Since the classical harmonic oscillator is degenerate, the dynamics fall outside the usual Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) framework, and resonances play a central role in shaping the phase space. We examine the system near resonances, where the ratio between the oscillator and driving frequencies takes integer values. Even though the classical Lyapunov exponent remains small at these points, and hence no conventional chaos, the phase space still undergoes strong structural changes. The OTOCs are particularly sensitive to these resonances, with a quadratic-in-time growth at resonance compared to linear growth away from it. Within a perturbative treatment, we derive closed-form expressions for the OTOCs and uncover a number-theoretic structure emerging in the behavior of OTOCs, governed by the Euler totient function of the frequency ratio. Overall, the results we present in this short note imply that resonant structures can play an important role in controlling information spreading.

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