Chaos: Scrambling, Operator Growth & Random Matrix Theory

Presentations

• Noise-based operator weight spectroscopy for quantum dynamics

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Rui-An Chang

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Rui-An Chang

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Matteo Ippoliti

    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Probing the limits to refocusing in spin systems

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Shreyan Ganguly

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Shreyan Ganguly

    • Dartmouth College

  • Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

    • Dartmouth College

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• Spectral statistics in dissipative quantum chaos: from random matrices to quantum computers

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: Sá, Ribeiro, Prosen, Phys. Rev. X 10, 021019 (2020).
  Wold, Zhu, Jin, Zhu, Bao, Zhong, Shen, Zhang, Li, Wang, Song, Guo, Denisov, Sá, Wang, Ribeiro, arXiv:2506.04325 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Lucas Sa

    • University of Cambridge

  Authors

  • Lucas Sa

    • University of Cambridge

  • Pedro Ribeiro

    • University of Lisbon

  • Tomaž Prosen

    • University of Ljubljana

  • Kristian Wold

    • Oslo Metropolitan University

  • Zitian Zhu

    • Zhejiang University

  • Feitong Jin

    • Zhejiang University

  • Xuhao Zhu

    • Zhejiang University

  • Zehang Bao

    • Zhejiang University

  • Jiarun Zhong

    • Zhejiang University

  • Fanhao Shen

    • Zhejiang University

  • Pengfei Zhang

    • Zhejiang University

  • Hekang Li

    • Zhejiang University

  • Zhen Wang

    • Zhejiang University

  • Chao Song

    • Zhejiang University

  • Qiujiang Guo

    • Zhejiang University

  • Haohua Wang

    • Zhejiang University

  • Sergey Denisov

    • Oslo Metropolitan University

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• Ruelle-Pollicott spectrum and non-hydrodynamic correlators in a U(1) symmetric Floquet circuit

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Eric D Schultz

    • Purdue University

  Authors

  • Eric D Schultz

    • Purdue University

  • Laimei Nie

    • Purdue University

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• Direct calculation of the Lieb-Robinson correlation function for long Ising chains: Evidence of many-body localization

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Brendan Joseph Mahoney

    • University of Notre Dame

  Authors

  • Craig S Lent

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Brendan Joseph Mahoney

    • University of Notre Dame

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• Non-Abelian operator size distribution and its dynamics in charge-conserving many-body systems

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Mina Tarakemeh

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Mina Tarakemeh

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Shenglong Xu

    • Texas A&M University
    • Texas A&M University College Station

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• Sharpening complex quantum dynamics with teleportation protocols (and gravity)

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: 1. Chris Akers, Andrew Lucas, Amit Vikram, "On the reconstruction map in JT gravity", arXiv:2506.18975 [hep-th], accepted in JHEP.
  2. Amit Vikram, "Enhanced entanglement from quantum ergodicity", arXiv:2507.08067 [quant-ph]
  3. Work in preparation by all listed authors on "Bidirectional teleportation using scrambling dynamics".

  Presenters

  • Amit Vikram

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Amit Vikram

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Chris Akers

    • University of Colorado-Boulder
    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Edwin Chaparro

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Muhammad Miskeen Khan

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • JILA

  • Andrew J Lucas

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • Department of Physics and Center for Theory of Quantum Matter, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  • Ana Maria Rey

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
    • JILA, University of Colorado Boulder
    • JILA
    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Operator Growth Across a Quantum Interface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Zhu-Guang Chen

    • Tulane University

  Authors

  • Zhu-Guang Chen

    • Tulane University

  • Xiaoyang Shen

    • Tsinghua University

  • Shao-Kai Jian

    • Tulane University

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM

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• Multiple Quantum Coherence Dynamics of P1 Centers in Diamond

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • George Kurian Kallungakudiyil

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • George Kurian Kallungakudiyil

    • Dartmouth College

  • James W Logan

    • Dartmouth College

  • Shreyan Ganguly

    • Dartmouth College

  • Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

    • Dartmouth College

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• Krylov Winding and Emergent Coherence in Operator Growth Dynamics

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2509.25331

  Presenters

  • Rishik Perugu

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Rishik Perugu

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Bryce Kobrin

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Michael O Flynn

    • BlocQ

  • Thomas Scaffidi

    • University of California, Irvine

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• From Domain Walls to Magnons – Phase Transition in Temporal Entanglement of Dual-Unitary Circuits

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Yue Li

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Yue Li

    • Virginia Tech

  • Tianci Zhou

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    • Virginia Tech

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• Unifying Quantum Information Scrambling with Asymmetry

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Namit Anand

    • HPE Labs

  Authors

  • Namit Anand

    • HPE Labs

  • Masoud Mohseni

    • HPE Quantum
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    • HPE Labs

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• Approaching Petz Recovery by Measurement-Free Quantum Signal Processing

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Hanzhang Zhao

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Hanzhang Zhao

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Shenglong Xu

    • Texas A&M University
    • Texas A&M University College Station

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• Geometry-tuned dynamical freezing in large neutral-atom arrays

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Publication: Planned paper: Geometry-tuned dynamical freezing in large neutral-atom arrays

  Presenters

  • Roopayan Ghosh

    • IIT Bhubaneswar

  Authors

  • Roopayan Ghosh

    • IIT Bhubaneswar

  • MADHUMITA SARKAR

    • University College London

  • Bhaskar Mukherjee

    • S. N. Bose Centre for Basic Sciences

  • Ben Zindorf

    • University College London

  • Sougato Bose

    • University College London

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