1. Information scrambling in quantum circuits.
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Mi X, Roushan P, Quintana C, Mandrà S, Marshall J, Neill C, Arute F, Arya K, Atalaya J, Babbush R, Bardin JC, Barends R, Basso J, Bengtsson A, Boixo S, Bourassa A, Broughton M, Buckley BB, Buell DA, Burkett B, Bushnell N, Chen Z, Chiaro B, Collins R, Courtney W, Demura S, Derk AR, Dunsworth A, Eppens D, Erickson C, Farhi E, Fowler AG, Foxen B, Gidney C, Giustina M, Gross JA, Harrigan MP, Harrington SD, Hilton J, Ho A, Hong S, Huang T, Huggins WJ, Ioffe LB, Isakov SV, Jeffrey E, Jiang Z, Jones C, Kafri D, Kelly J, Kim S, Kitaev A, Klimov PV, Korotkov AN, Kostritsa F, Landhuis D, Laptev P, Lucero E, Martin O, McClean JR, McCourt T, McEwen M, Megrant A, Miao KC, Mohseni M, Montazeri S, Mruczkiewicz W, Mutus J, Naaman O, Neeley M, Newman M, Niu MY, O'Brien TE, Opremcak A, Ostby E, Pato B, Petukhov A, Redd N, Rubin NC, Sank D, Satzinger KJ, Shvarts V, Strain D, Szalay M, Trevithick MD, Villalonga B, White T, Yao ZJ, Yeh P, Zalcman A, Neven H, Aleiner I, Kechedzhi K, Smelyanskiy V, and Chen Y
- Abstract
Interactions in quantum systems can spread initially localized quantum information into the exponentially many degrees of freedom of the entire system. Understanding this process, known as quantum scrambling, is key to resolving several open questions in physics. Here, by measuring the time-dependent evolution and fluctuation of out-of-time-order correlators, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of quantum scrambling on a 53-qubit quantum processor. We engineer quantum circuits that distinguish operator spreading and operator entanglement and experimentally observe their respective signatures. We show that whereas operator spreading is captured by an efficient classical model, operator entanglement in idealized circuits requires exponentially scaled computational resources to simulate. These results open the path to studying complex and practically relevant physical observables with near-term quantum processors.
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- 2021
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