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Circuit Complexity in Fermionic Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-19 v1 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We define and calculate versions of complexity for free fermionic quantum field theories in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions, adopting Nielsen's geodesic perspective in the space of circuits. We do this both by discretizing and identifying appropriate classes of Bogoliubov-Valatin transformations, and also directly in the continuum by defining squeezing operators and their generalizations. As a closely related problem, we consider cMERA tensor networks for fermions: viewing them as paths in circuit space, we compute their path lengths. Certain ambiguities that arise in some of these results because of cut-off dependence are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1801.07620,
  title  = {Circuit Complexity in Fermionic Field Theory},
  author = {Rifath Khan and Chethan Krishnan and Sanchita Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07620},
  year   = {2022}
}

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56 pages, 2 figures

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