Information propagation and recovery in a many-body quantum system

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Abstract

As an interacting quantum system evolves in time, any local perturbation can spread into its many degrees of freedom; this process is known as information scrambling. While the initial perturbation dissolves, its information is still encoded in the system. One way to expose this is to let the system evolve back in time, such that the original perturbation rematerializes in a Loschmidt echo. This recovery is broken when we additionally perturb the system at a time t, prior to the time reversal. We expose these dynamics with an array of strongly coupled superconducting qubits in 1d and 2d, and we experimentally observe the propagation of information in this many-body quantum system by measuring the relevant out-of-time-ordered correlators.

*A.K. is funded by NSF GRFP 2018265551. This research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation under grants PHY-1720311 and 1839197; and by the Department of Defense via MIT Lincoln Laboratory under U.S. Air Force Contract No. FA8721-05-C-0002. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements of the U.S. Government.

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Presenters

  • Jochen Braumueller

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

Authors

  • Jochen Braumueller

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Amir Karamlou

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Yariv Yanay

    • Laboratory for Physical Sciences

  • Bharath Kannan

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • David K Kim

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
    • MIT - Lincoln Laboratory
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Morten Kjaergaard

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Alexander Melville

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
    • MIT - Lincoln Laboratory

  • Bethany Niedzielski

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
    • MIT - Lincoln Laboratory
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Youngkyu Sung

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Antti Vepsalainen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Roni Winik

    • MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Jonilyn Yoder

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
    • MIT - Lincoln Laboratory
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Terry Philip Orlando

    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Simon Gustavsson

    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Charles Tahan

    • Laboratory for Physical Sciences
    • Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, MD 20740, U.S.A.

  • William Oliver

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT
    • MIT, MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT Lincoln L
    • Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technol
    • Lincoln Laboratory, Research Laboratory of Electronics, and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT