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Pseudo complexity of purification for free scalar field theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-18 v2

Abstract

We compute the pseudo complexity of purification corresponding to the reduced transition matrices for free scalar field theories with an arbitrary dynamical exponent. We plot the behaviour of complexity with various parameters of the theory under study and compare it with the complexity of purification of the reduced density matrices of the two states ψ1|\psi_1\rangle and ψ2|\psi_2\rangle that constitute the transition matrix. We first find the transition matrix by reducing to a small number (11 and 22) of degrees of freedom in lattice from a lattice system with many lattice points and then purify it by doubling the degrees of freedom (22 and 44 respectively) for this reduced system. This is a primary step towards the natural extension to the idea of the complexity of purification for reduced density matrices relevant for the studies related to post-selection.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00049,
  title  = {Pseudo complexity of purification for free scalar field theories},
  author = {Aranya Bhattacharya and Arpan Bhattacharyya and Sabyasachi Maulik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00049},
  year   = {2022}
}

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18 pages, 7 figures; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D