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Complexity growth for one-dimensional free-fermionic lattice models

Quantum Physics 2023-08-10 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Complexity plays a very important part in quantum computing and simulation where it acts as a measure of the minimal number of gates that are required to implement a unitary circuit. We study the lower bound of the complexity [Eisert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020501 (2021)] for the unitary dynamics of the one-dimensional lattice models of non-interacting fermions. We find analytically using quasiparticle formalism, the bound grows linearly in time and followed by a saturation for short-ranged tight-binding Hamiltonians. We show numerical evidence that for an initial Neel state the bound is maximum for tight-binding Hamiltonians as well as for the long-range hopping models. However, the increase of the bound is sub-linear in time for the later, in contrast to the linear growth observed for short-range models. The upper bound of the complexity in non-interacting fermionic lattice models is calculated, which grows linearly in time even beyond the saturation time of the lower bound, and finally, it also saturates.

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@article{arxiv.2302.06305,
  title  = {Complexity growth for one-dimensional free-fermionic lattice models},
  author = {S. Aravinda and Ranjan Modak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06305},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.B

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