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We study strongly coupled mass-deformed-CFT on a fixed de Sitter spacetime in three dimensions via holography. We elucidate the global causal structure of the four-dimensional spacetime dual to the de Sitter invariant vacuum state. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-02 José Manuel Penín , Kostas Skenderis , Benjamin Withers

We study the CV, CA, and CV2.0 approaches to holographic complexity in $(d+1)$-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. We find that holographic complexity and corresponding growth rate presents universal behaviour for all three approaches. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Eivind Jørstad , Robert C. Myers , Shan-Ming Ruan

We study two recent conjectures for holographic complexity: the complexity=action conjecture and the complexity=volume conjecture. In particular, we examine the structure of the UV divergences appearing in these quantities, and show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-27 Dean Carmi , Robert C. Myers , Pratik Rath

We calculate the volume and action forms of holographic complexity for the gravitational collapse of scalar field matter in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime, using numerical methods to reproduce the geometry responding to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Andrew R. Frey , Michael P. Grehan , Manu Srivastava

A central problem in formulating a theory of quantum gravity is to determine the size and structure of the Hilbert space of black holes. Here we use a quantum dynamical Krylov complexity approach to calculate the Hilbert space dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Vijay Balasubramanian , Rathindra Nath Das , Johanna Erdmenger , Jonathan Karl , Herman Verlinde

Thus far, the literature regarding holographic complexity almost entirely focuses on the context of $(d+1)$-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime rather than the full higher-dimensional gauge/gravity duality in string or M theory. We provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-12 Andrew R. Frey

We use the complexity equals action proposal to calculate the rate of complexity growth for field theories that are the holographic duals of asymptotically flat spacetimes. To this aim, we evaluate the on-shell action of asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Reza Fareghbal , Pedram Karimi

The ER=EPR conjecture states that quantum entanglement between boundary degrees of freedom leads to the emergence of bulk spacetime itself. Although this has been tested extensively in String Theory for asymptotically anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Lucas Hackl , Moatsem Hassan , Xiancong Luo

This thesis develops recent work on the so called Volume-Complexity and Action-Complexity conjectures. According to this family of proposals, geometric quantities can be defined in some holographic gravitational theories that can be mapped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Javier Martin-Garcia

The two-point function of a free massive scalar field on a fixed background can be evaluated in the large mass limit by using a semiclassical geodesic approximation. In de Sitter space, however, this poses a puzzle. Certain spacelike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Shira Chapman , Damián A. Galante , Eleanor Harris , Sameer U. Sheorey , David Vegh

An important conjecture within the AdS/CFT correspondence relates holographic spacetime to the quantum computational complexity of the dual quantum field theory. However, the quantitative understanding of this relation is still an open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Johanna Erdmenger , Marius Gerbershagen , Michal P. Heller , Anna-Lena Weigel

We employ holography to calculate the quantum complexity of $T\bar{T}$-deformation, utilizing the complexity equals volume (CV) and the complexity equals action (CA) proposals within the bulk spacetime with a finite radius cutoff. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Amin Faraji Astaneh

Complexity in quantum physics measures how difficult a state can be reached from a reference state and more precisely it is the number of fundamental unitary gates we have to operate to transform the reference state to the state we are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-05 Hao Geng

Recently a Complexity-Action (CA) duality conjecture has been proposed, which relates the quantum complexity of a holographic boundary state to the action of a Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) patch in the anti-de Sitter (AdS) bulk. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-30 Rong-Gen Cai , Shan-Ming Ruan , Shao-Jiang Wang , Run-Qiu Yang , Rong-Hui Peng

We construct a time-dependent expression of the computational complexity of a quantum system which consists of two conformal complex scalar field theories in d dimensions coupled to constant electric potentials and defined on the boundaries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Musema Sinamuli , Robert B. Mann

Quantum complexity quantifies the difficulty of preparing a state or implementing a unitary transformation with limited resources. Applications range from quantum computation to condensed matter physics and quantum gravity. We seek to…

We compute the quantum circuit complexity of the evolution of scalar curvature perturbations on expanding backgrounds, using the language of squeezed vacuum states. In particular, we construct a simple cosmological model consisting of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-22 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saurya Das , S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

We study de Sitter JT gravity in the canonical formulation to illustrate constructions of Hilbert spaces in quantum gravity, which is challenging due to the Hamiltonian constraints. The key ideas include representing states as "invariants"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Jesse Held , Henry Maxfield

We propose a holographic map between Einstein gravity coupled to matter in a de Sitter background and large N quantum mechanics of a system of spins. Holography maps a spin model with a finite dimensional Hilbert space defined on a version…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-07 Chang Liu , David A. Lowe

In the context of CA conjecture for holographic complexity, we study the action growth rate at late time approximation for general quadratic curvature theory of gravity. We show how the Lloyd's bound saturates for charged and neutral black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Ahmad Ghodsi , Saeed Qolibikloo , Saman Karimi