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Hummel, Quirin ; Geiger, Benjamin ; Urbina, Juan Diego ; Richter, Klaus

Reversible Quantum Information Spreading in Many-Body Systems near Criticality

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Hummel, Quirin, Geiger, Benjamin , Urbina, Juan Diego and Richter, Klaus (2019) Reversible Quantum Information Spreading in Many-Body Systems near Criticality. Physical Review Letters (PRL) 123 (16), p. 160401.

DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.40870

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Abstract

Quantum chaotic interacting N-particle systems are assumed to show fast and irreversible spreading of quantum information on short (Ehrenfest) time scales ∼logN. Here, we show that, near criticality, certain many-body systems exhibit fast initial scrambling, followed subsequently by oscillatory behavior between reentrant localization and delocalization of information in Hilbert space. We consider ...

Quantum chaotic interacting N-particle systems are assumed to show fast and irreversible spreading of quantum information on short (Ehrenfest) time scales ∼logN. Here, we show that, near criticality, certain many-body systems exhibit fast initial scrambling, followed subsequently by oscillatory behavior between reentrant localization and delocalization of information in Hilbert space. We consider both integrable and nonintegrable quantum critical bosonic systems with attractive contact interaction that exhibit locally unstable dynamics in the corresponding many-body phase space of the large-N limit. Semiclassical quantization of the latter accounts for many-body correlations in excellent agreement with simulations. Most notably, it predicts an asymptotically constant local level spacing ℏ/τ, again given by τ∼logN. This unique timescale governs the long-time behavior of out-of-time-order correlators that feature quasiperiodic recurrences indicating reversibility.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review Letters (PRL)
PublisherAmerican Physical Society
Open Access TypeDue to SHERPA/RoMEO
Volume123
Number of Issue or Book Chapter16
Page Rangep. 160401
Date15 October 2019
Date of publication22 Oct 2019 13:12
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.160401DOI
1812.09237arXiv ID
Keywordscriticality, many-body physics, semiclassical physics, out-of-time-ordered correlator, information scrambling
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-408706
Item ID40870

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