Anomalous Quantum Information Scrambling for ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ Parafermion Chains

Abstract

Parafermions are exotic quasiparticles with non-Abelian fractional statistics that could be exploited to realize universal topological quantum computing. Here, we study the scrambling of quantum information in one-dimensional parafermionic chains, with a focus on ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ parafermions in particular. We use the generalized out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) as a measure of the information scrambling and introduce an efficient method based on matrix product operators to compute them. With this method, we compute the OTOCs for ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ parafermions chains up to $200$ sites for the entire early growth region. We find that, in stark contrast to the dynamics of conventional fermions or bosons, the information scrambling light cones for parafermions can be both symmetric and asymmetric, even for inversion-invariant Hamiltonians involving only hopping terms. In addition, we find a deformed light cone structure with a sharp peak at the boundary of the parafermion chains in the topological regime, which gives a unambiguous evidence of the strong zero modes at infinite temperature.

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