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Nielsen's approach to quantum state complexity relates the minimal number of quantum gates required to prepare a state to the length of geodesics computed with a certain norm on the manifold of unitary transformations. For a bipartite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-18 Stefano Baiguera , Shira Chapman , Giuseppe Policastro , Tal Schwartzman

Computation of circuit complexity has gained much attention in the Theoretical Physics community in recent times to gain insights into the chaotic features and random fluctuations of fields in the quantum regime. Recent studies of circuit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-12 Sayantan Choudhury , Sachin Panneer Selvam , K. Shirish

In Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum complexity, the introduction of a suitable geometrical space, based on the Lie group formed by fundamental operators, facilitates the identification of complexity through geodesic distance in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

Quantum computational complexity estimates the difficulty of constructing quantum states from elementary operations, a problem of prime importance for quantum computation. Surprisingly, this quantity can also serve to study a completely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Shira Chapman , Giuseppe Policastro

We introduce "binding complexity", a new notion of circuit complexity which quantifies the difficulty of distributing entanglement among multiple parties, each consisting of many local degrees of freedom. We define binding complexity of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-18 Vijay Balasubramanian , Matthew DeCross , Arjun Kar , Onkar Parrikar

We evaluate the complexity of the free scalar field by the operator approach in which the transformation matrix between the second quantization operators of reference state and target state is regarded as the quantum gate. We first examine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-25 Wung-Hong Huang

Motivated by holographic complexity proposals as novel probes of black hole spacetimes, we explore circuit complexity for thermofield double (TFD) states in free scalar quantum field theories using the Nielsen approach. For TFD states at t…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-18 Shira Chapman , Jens Eisert , Lucas Hackl , Michal P. Heller , Ro Jefferson , Hugo Marrochio , Robert C. Myers

In this work, we study the circuit complexity for generalized coherent states in thermal systems by adopting the covariance matrix approach. We focus on the coherent thermal (CT) state, which is non-Gaussian and has a nonvanishing one-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Minyong Guo , Zhong-Ying Fan , Jie Jiang , Xiangjing Liu , Bin Chen

In this paper, we analyze the circuit complexity for preparing ground states of quantum many-body systems. In particular, how this complexity grows as the ground state approaches a quantum phase transition. We discuss different definitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sebastián Roca-Jerat , Teresa Sancho-Lorente , Juan Román-Roche , David Zueco

According to the pioneering work of Nielsen and collaborators, the length of the minimal geodesic in a geometric realization of a suitable operator space provides a measure of the quantum complexity of an operation. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

The computational complexity of a quantum state quantifies how hard it is to make. `Complexity geometry', first proposed by Nielsen, is an approach to defining computational complexity using the tools of differential geometry. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 Adam R. Brown , Leonard Susskind

We study circuit complexity for conformal field theory states in arbitrary dimensions. Our circuits start from a primary state and move along a unitary representation of the Lorentzian conformal group. Different choices of distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-04 Nicolas Chagnet , Shira Chapman , Jan de Boer , Claire Zukowski

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

We investigate the variation of holographic complexity for two nearby target states. Based on Nielsen's geometric approach, we find the variation only depends on the end point of the optimal trajectory, a result which we designate the first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-28 Alice Bernamonti , Federico Galli , Juan Hernandez , Robert C. Myers , Shan-Ming Ruan , Joan Simón

In this paper, we first construct thermofield double states for bosonic string theory in the light-cone gauge. We then obtain a coherent-thermal string state and a thermal-coherent string state. We use the covariance matrix approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Arshid Shabir , Sanjib Dey , Salman Sajad Wani , Suhail Lone , Seemin Rubab , Mir Faizal

Inspired by the close relationship between Kolmogorov complexity and unsupervised machine learning, we explore quantum circuit complexity, an important concept in quantum computation and quantum information science, as a pivot to understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Xiaoguang Wang , Franco Nori

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

We propose that finite cutoff regions of holographic spacetimes represent quantum circuits that map between boundary states at different times and Wilsonian cutoffs, and that the complexity of those quantum circuits is given by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 A. Ramesh Chandra , Jan de Boer , Mario Flory , Michal P. Heller , Sergio Hörtner , Andrew Rolph

In this study, we explore a form of quantum circuit complexity that extends to open systems. To illustrate our methodology, we focus on a basic model where the projective Hilbert space of states is depicted by the set of orientations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 E. M. F. Curado , S. Faci , J. P. Gazeau , T. Koide , A. C. Maioli , D. Noguera

This paper defines a complexity between states in quantum field theory by introducing a Finsler structure based on ladder operators (the generalization of creation and annihilation operators). Two simple models are shown as examples to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-09 Run-Qiu Yang