Theory of Out-of-Time-Ordered Transport

The paper develops an effective field theory to describe universal late-time behavior of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in quantum many-body systems with conservation laws. It shows that a specific combination of OTOCs reveals novel transport parameters not visible in standard time-ordered correlators, using a Schwinger-Keldysh contour and constraints derived from microscopic dynamics.

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