Out-of-Time Ordered Correlator for a Chaotic Many-Body Quantum System

TL;DR

This paper calculates the long-time behavior of the out-of-time correlator in a chaotic many-body quantum system, revealing a universal relation between energy correlation width and classical Lyapunov exponent.

Contribution

It explicitly derives the large-time dependence and asymptotic value of the OTOC using a parametric representation, proposing a universal relation between quantum and classical chaos indicators.

Findings

OTOC's large-time dependence is determined by the ratio Δt/ħ.

The energy correlation width Δ is conjectured to relate universally to the classical Lyapunov exponent λ_max.

Large-time OTOC behavior is governed by the dimensionless parameter λ_max t.

Abstract

Using the parametric representation of a chaotic many-body quantum system derived earlier, we calculate explicitly the large-time dependence and asymptotic value of the out-of-time correlator (OTOC) of that system. The dependence on time $t$ is determined by $\Delta t / \hbar$. Here $\Delta$ is the energy correlation width within which the Bohigas-Giannoni-Schmit conjecture applies. We conjecture that $\Delta$ is universally related to the leading Ljapunov coefficient of the corresponding classical system by $\Delta = \hbar \lambda_{\max}$. Then the large-time behavior of OTOC is given by the dimensionless parameter $\lambda_{\max} t$.