Diffusive hydrodynamics of out-of-time-ordered correlators with charge conservation

Abstract

The scrambling of quantum information in closed many-body systems, as measured by out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs), has lately received considerable attention. Recently, a hydrodynamical description of OTOCs has emerged from considering random local circuits, aspects of which are conjectured to be universal to ergodic many-body systems, even without randomness. Here we extend this approach to systems with locally conserved quantities (e.g., energy). We do this by considering local random unitary circuits with a conserved U$(1)$ charge and argue, with numerical and analytical evidence, that the presence of a conservation law slows relaxation in both time ordered {\textit{and}} out-of-time-ordered correlation functions, both can have a diffusively relaxing component or "hydrodynamic tail" at late times. We verify the presence of such tails also in a deterministic, peridocially driven system. We show that for OTOCs, the combination of diffusive and ballistic components leads to a wave front with a specific, asymmetric shape, decaying as a power law behind the front. These results also explain existing numerical investigations in non-noisy ergodic systems with energy conservation. Moreover, we consider OTOCs in Gibbs states, parametrized by a chemical potential $\mu$, and apply perturbative arguments to show that for $\mu \gg 1$ the ballistic front of information-spreading can only develop at times exponentially large in $\mu$ -- with the information traveling diffusively at earlier times. We also develop a new formalism for describing OTOCs and operator spreading, which allows us to interpret the saturation of OTOCs as a form of thermalization on the Hilbert space of operators.

Close to published version: 17 + 9.5 pages. Improved presentation. Contains new section on clean Floquet spin chain. New and/or improved numerical data in Figures 4-7, 11, 14

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