Condensed Matter Theory Seminar | January 27, 14:30

Operator Entanglement as a probe of information scrambling and quantum chaos

Tian Mao Tan

The characterization of quantum chaos in many-body systems has been an active area of research in the past several years. There have been several proposed diagnostics of quantum chaos, like the out-of-time-ordered correlators and the spectral form factor, to name a few. The focus of this talk is another quantity known as the operator entanglement. A particularly interesting measure of operator entanglement is the tripartite operator mutual information which is a quantitative measure of the amount of information delocalization. By studying the tripartite operator mutual information of both unitary operators and local operators in a variety of systems ranging from conformal field theories to spin chains, we demonstrate the utility of operator entanglement in distinguishing chaotic and non-chaotic theories.


University of Chicago
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