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Circuit Complexity for Fermionic Thermofield Double states

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-01-18 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the holographic complexity proposals, in this paper, we investigate the time dependence of the complexity for the Fermionic thermofield double state (TFD) using the Nielsen approach and Fubini-Study (FS) approach separately. In both two approaches, we discuss the results for different reference states: the Dirac vacuum state and the Gaussian state which has no spatial entanglement (NSE). For Dirac vacuum reference state, we find that the complexity by both two approaches is time independent and the circuit complexity shares the same expression for both methods with the L2L^2 norm. For the NSE reference state, the complexity by the Nielsen approach is time-dependent while it by the FS approach is time-independent. Further, we find our dynamical results are in good agreement with the bosonic case, where the complexity evolves in time and saturates after a time at the order of the inverse temperature. And we show that the complexity of formation is also shared same similar behaviors with the holographic complexity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1812.00193,
  title  = {Circuit Complexity for Fermionic Thermofield Double states},
  author = {Jie Jiang and Xiangjing Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00193},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

41 pages, 16 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1810.05151, arXiv:1803.10638, arXiv:1807.07677 by other authors

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