Out-of-time-order correlation at a quantum phase transition

Motivated by the recent studies of out-of-time-order correlation functions and the holographic duality, we propose the quantum critical point conjecture, which is stated as: For a many-body quantum system with a quantum phase transition, the Lyapunov exponent extracted from the out-of-time-order cor...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Pengfei (Author), Fan, Ruihua (Author), Zhai, Hui (Author), Shen, Huitao (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2018-02-12T18:48:12Z.
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520 |a Motivated by the recent studies of out-of-time-order correlation functions and the holographic duality, we propose the quantum critical point conjecture, which is stated as: For a many-body quantum system with a quantum phase transition, the Lyapunov exponent extracted from the out-of-time-order correlators will exhibit a maximum around the quantum critical region. We first demonstrate that the Lyapunov exponent is well defined in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model with the help of the out-of-time-order correlation-Rényi-entropy theorem. We then support the conjecture by numerically computing the out-of-time-order correlators. We also compute the butterfly velocity, and propose an experiment protocol of measuring this correlator without inverting the Hamiltonian. 
520 |a National Natural Science Foundation (China) (Grant 11325418) 
520 |a Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Initiative Scientific Research Program 
520 |a China. Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant 2016YFA0301600) 
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