期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 101, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.104415
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- National Science Foundation [EFRI-1741618]
We report a numerical observation where the infinite-temperature out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) directly probe quantum phase transitions at zero temperature, in contrast to common intuition where low-energy quantum effects are washed away by strong thermal fluctuations at high temperature. By comparing numerical simulations with exact analytic results, we determine that this phenomenon has a topological origin and is highly generic, as long as the underlying system can be mapped to a 1D Majorana chain. Using the Majorana basis, we show that the infinite-temperature OTOCs probe zero-temperature quantum phases via detecting the presence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the chain that is associated with 1D Z(2) topological order. Hence, we show that strong zero modes also affect OTOCs and scrambling dynamics. Our results demonstrate an intriguing interplay between information scrambling and topological order, which leads to a new phenomenon in the scrambling of generic nonintegrable models: topological order induced prescrambling, paralleling the notion of prethermalization of two-time correlators that defines a timescale for the restricted scrambling of topologically protected quantum information.
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