Probing chaos and thermalization through out-of-time-ordered correlators in random field spin chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18982v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:03:56 GMT
• Title: Probing chaos and thermalization through out-of-time-ordered correlators in random field spin chains
• Abstract summary: Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have emerged as a diagnostic of information scrambling and quantum chaos in many-body systems.<n>We investigate the imprints of chaos in the dynamics of OTOCs in the Heisenberg spin-$1/2$ chain with random fields.
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• Abstract: Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have emerged as a diagnostic of information scrambling and quantum chaos in many-body systems. We investigate the imprints of chaos in the dynamics of OTOCs in the Heisenberg spin-$1/2$ chain with random fields. The system is parameterized to exhibit a crossover from integrable to chaotic dynamics. We demonstrate numerically that the approach to saturation of the OTOC can distinguish between integrable and chaotic regimes, with a power-law $(1/t)$ relaxation for integrable systems and a higher-degree power-law decay $(1/t^α; α\ge 1)$ followed by an exponential relaxation for the chaotic regime. We further show that long-range spectral statistics, such as the number variance, are more effective in characterizing quantum chaos in the regime near saturation of OTOC. We also demonstrate that the relaxation and initial scrambling regimes exhibit distinct and universal features, with the former being sensitive and the latter being robust against different realizations of random-fields. The long-time saturation of OTOC also fluctuates with different realizations, and its exact expression is derived through the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis.

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