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Real space circuit complexity as a probe of phase diagrams

Quantum Physics 2023-02-13 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Circuit complexity has been used as a tool to study various properties in condensed matter systems, in particular as a way to probe the phase diagram. However, compared with measures based on entanglement, complexity has been found lacking. We show that when imposing penalty factors punishing non-locality, it becomes a much stronger probe of the phase diagram, able to probe more subtle features. We do this by deriving analytical solutions for the complexity in the XY chain with transverse field.

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@article{arxiv.2211.14106,
  title  = {Real space circuit complexity as a probe of phase diagrams},
  author = {Nishan C. Jayarama and Viktor Svensson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14106},
  year   = {2023}
}

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4 pages+appendix; v2: updated author name