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Polynomially restricted operator growth in dynamically integrable models

Quantum Physics 2025-08-04 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We provide a framework to determine the upper bound to the complexity of a computing a given observable with respect to a Hamiltonian. By considering the Heisenberg evolution of the observable, we show that each Hamiltonian defines an equivalence relation, causing the operator space to be partitioned into equivalence classes. Any operator within a specific class never leaves its equivalence class during the evolution. We provide a method to determine the dimension of the equivalence classes and evaluate it for various models, such as the XY XY chain and Kitaev model on trees. Our findings reveal that the complexity of operator evolution in the XYXY model grows from the edge to the bulk, which is physically manifested as suppressed relaxation of qubits near the boundary. Our methods are used to reveal several new cases of simulable quantum dynamics, including a XYXY-ZZZZ model which cannot be reduced to free fermions.

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@article{arxiv.2406.13026,
  title  = {Polynomially restricted operator growth in dynamically integrable models},
  author = {Igor Ermakov and Tim Byrnes and Oleg Lychkovskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13026},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures

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