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Quenched disorder slows down the scrambling of quantum information. Using a bottom-up approach, we formulate a kinetic theory of scrambling in a correlated metal near a superconducting transition, following the scrambling dynamics as the impurity scattering rate is increased. Within this framework, we rigorously show that the butterfly velocity v is bounded by the light-cone velocity v(lc) set by the Fermi velocity. We analytically identify a disorder-driven dynamical transition occurring at small but finite disorder strength between a spreading of information characterized at late times by a discontinuous shock wave propagating at the maximum velocity vlc, and a smooth traveling wave belonging to the Fisher or Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) class and propagating at a slower, if not considerably slower, velocity v. In the diffusive regime, we establish the relation v(2)/lambda(FKPP)similar to D-el, where lambda(FKPP) is the Lyapunov exponent set by the inelastic scattering rate and D-el is the elastic diffusion constant.
Dirk Grundler, Benedetta Flebus