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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011006
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- Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, of the U.S. Department of Energy through the COMPHEP pilot, Probing information scrambling via quantum teleportation [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Quantum Algorithm Teams Program
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Out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) functions provide a powerful theoretical tool for diagnosing chaos and the scrambling of information in strongly interacting, quantum systems. However, their direct and unambiguous experimental measurement remains an essential challenge. At its core, this challenge arises from the fact that the effects of both decoherence and experimental noise can mimic that of information scrambling, leading to decay of OTOCs. Here, we analyze a quantum teleportation protocol that explicitly enables one to differentiate between scrambling and decoherence. Moreover, we demonstrate that within this protocol, one can extract a precise noise parameter which quantitatively captures the nonscrambling-induced decay of OTOCs. Using this parameter, we prove explicit bounds on the true value of the OTOC. Our results open the door to experimentally measuring quantum scrambling with built-in verifiability.
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