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Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators

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In this chapter we study the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) for the gauge field in our model. While originally introduced in the context of quasiclassical approaches to quantum systems (Larkin and Ovchinnikov in Sov Phys JETP 28:1200–1205, 1969, [1]), OTOCs have recently received renewed interest due to their connections with the emergence of quantum chaotic behaviour [2,3,4].

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    Note that the constants \(c,v,\xi \) for the operator and correlator bounds are not generally the same.

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Smith, A. (2019). Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators. In: Disorder-Free Localization. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20851-6_5

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