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The growth of operator entropy in operator growth

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-07 v2

Abstract

We study upper bounds on the growth of operator entropy SKS_K in operator growth. Using uncertainty relation, we first prove a dispersion bound on the growth rate tSK2b1ΔSK|\partial_t S_K|\leq 2b_1 \Delta S_K, where b1b_1 is the first Lanczos coefficient and ΔSK\Delta S_K is the variance of SKS_K. However, for irreversible process, this bound generally turns out to be too loose at long times. We further find a tighter bound in the long time limit using a universal logarithmic relation between Krylov complexity and operator entropy. The new bound describes the long time behavior of operator entropy very well for physically interesting cases, such as chaotic systems and integrable models.

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@article{arxiv.2206.00855,
  title  = {The growth of operator entropy in operator growth},
  author = {Zhong-Ying Fan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00855},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

minor corrections,19 pages, 4 figures