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Over the past five years, there has been significant progress on the problem of quantization of diffeomorphism covariant field theories with {\it local} degrees of freedom. The absence of a background space-time metric in these theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Ashtekar , Jerzy Lewandowski

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 opportunities afforded by near-term quantum computers to calculate the ground-state properties of small molecules depend on the structure of the computational ansatz as well as the errors induced by device noise. Here we investigate the…

Quantum complexity of conformal field theory (CFT) states has recently gained significant attention, both as a diagnostic tool in condensed matter systems and in connection with holographic observables probing black hole interiors. Previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Stefano Baiguera , Nicolas Chagnet , Shira Chapman , Osher Shoval

Quantum complexity measures the difficulty of obtaining a given state starting from a typically unentangled state. In this work, we show that complexity, when defined through the minimization of a Riemannian cost functional over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Nadir Samos Sáenz de Buruaga

The effects of a boundary on the circuit complexity are studied in two dimensional theories. The analysis is performed in the holographic realization of a conformal field theory with a boundary by employing different proposals for the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Paolo Braccia , Aldo L. Cotrone , Erik Tonni

We discuss the relation between coarse-graining and the holographic principle in the framework of loop quantum gravity and ask the following question: when we coarse-grain arbitrary spin network states of quantum geometry, are we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Etera R. Livine

We outline, test, and apply a new scheme for nonpertubative analyses of quantized field systems in contact with dynamical gravity. While gravity is treated classically in the present paper, the approach lends itself for a generalization to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Maximilian Becker , Martin Reuter

We discuss the quantum-circuit realization of the state of a nucleon in the scope of simple symmetry groups. Explicit algorithms are presented for the preparation of the state of a neutron or a proton as resulting from the composition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 F. L. Semiao , M. Paternostro

Using a recent proposal of circuit complexity in quantum field theories introduced by Jefferson and Myers, we compute the time evolution of the complexity following a smooth mass quench characterized by a time scale $\delta t$ in a free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-14 Daniel W. F. Alves , Giancarlo Camilo

Circuit complexity, defined as the minimum circuit size required for implementing a particular Boolean computation, is a foundational concept in computer science. Determining circuit complexity is believed to be a hard computational problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Claudio Chamon , Andrei E. Ruckenstein , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Ran Canetti

We initiate the study of state complexity for continuous-variable quantum systems. Concretely, we consider a setup with bosonic modes and auxiliary qubits, where available operations include Gaussian one- and two-mode operations, single-…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Lukas Brenner , Libor Caha , Xavier Coiteux-Roy , Robert Koenig

In a quantum circuit, it is believed that complexity itself reaches a maximum of order exponential in the number of q-bits or equivalently exponential in entropy of the black hole. However, the current holographic proposals do not meet this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Shahrokh Parvizi , Mojtaba Shahbazi

Quantifying the complexity of quantum states is a longstanding key problem in various subfields of science, ranging from quantum computing to the black-hole theory. The lower bound on quantum pure state complexity has been shown to grow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yusen Wu , Bujiao Wu , Yanqi Song , Xiao Yuan , Jingbo B. Wang

We present a systematic method to expand the quantum complexity of interacting theory in series of coupling constant. The complexity is evaluated by the operator approach in which the transformation matrix between the second quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Wung-Hong Huang

We initiate quantitative studies of complexity in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theories with a view that they provide the simplest setting to find a gravity dual to complexity. Our work pursues a geometric understanding of complexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Mario Flory , Michal P. Heller

The Hamiltonian operator describing a quantum particle on a path often extends holomorphically to a complex neighborhood of the path. When it does, it can be seen as the local expression of a complex projective structure, and its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Aaron Fenyes

We derive a geometric representation of couplings between spin degrees of freedom and gauge fields within the worldline approach to quantum field theory. We combine the string-inspired methods of the worldline formalism with elements of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Gies , Jens Hammerling

In this thesis we investigate some aspects of quantum field theories from a holographic perspective. In the first chapters we examine in detail a one-paremeter family of three-dimensional gauge theories by means of their type IIA gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Javier G. Subils

Science is rich in abstract concepts that capture complex processes in astonishingly simple ways. A prominent example is the reduction of molecules to simple graphs. This work introduces a design principle for parametrized quantum circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Jakob S. Kottmann