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Krylov Complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-11 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study Krylov complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac field theories with a generic dynamical critical exponent zz. By computing the Lanczos coefficients for massless and massive cases, we analyze the growth and saturation behavior of Krylov complexity in different regimes. We incorporate a hard UV cutoff and investigate the effects of lattice discretization, revealing fundamental differences between continuum and lattice models. In the presence of a UV cutoff, Krylov complexity exhibits an initial exponential growth followed by a linear regime, with saturation values of the Lanczos coefficients dictated by the cutoff scale. For the lattice model, we find a fundamental departure from the continuum case: due to the finite Krylov basis, Krylov complexity saturates rather than growing indefinitely. Our findings suggest that Lifshitz scaling influences operator growth and information spreading in quantum systems. We further find that increasing the Lifshitz exponent zz suppresses Krylov complexity, entropy, and Lanczos growth in both massless and massive cases, while enhancing K-variance. This trend reverses under a hard UV cutoff, where complexity and entropy increase with zz. In lattice models, early-time complexity and bnb_n decay shift with zz, echoing the continuum behavior of massive and massless regimes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2506.08765,
  title  = {Krylov Complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac Field Theories},
  author = {Hamid R. Imani and Komeil Babaei Velni and M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08765},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

29 pages, 20 figures, v3: minor improvements, matches published version

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