RealFeedApp OTOC decays exponentially in non-unitary systems
The authors derived an analytic model for out-of-time-order correlators in non-unitary systems and validated it via quantum simulation on Quantinuum's trapped-ion hardware, demonstrating signal decay in the bulk of the causal cone.
- Field
- tools and releases
- What they did
- Researchers developed a method and software framework to calculate a specific indicator (OTOC) in quantum systems that do not conserve energy, and they performed this calculation on a real quantum computer.
- Why it matters
- This allows studying how information spreads and mixes in quantum systems with noise, which is important for understanding fundamental processes in quantum physics.
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