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The continuous multiscale entaglement renormalization ansatz (cMERA) [Haegeman et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 100402 (2013)] is a variational wavefunctional for ground states of quantum field theories. So far, only scalar bosons and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Adrian Franco-Rubio , Guifre Vidal

Based on general and minimal properties of the {\it discrete} circuit complexity, we define the complexity in {\it continuous} systems in a geometrical way. We first show that the Finsler metric naturally emerges in the geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Run-Qiu Yang , Yu-Sen An , Chao Niu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Keun-Young Kim

Traditional quantum speed limits formulated in density matrix space are generally unattainable for a wide class of dynamics and it is difficult to characterize the fastest possible dynamics. To address this, we present two distinct quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Abhay Srivastav , Vivek Pandey , Brij Mohan , Arun Kumar Pati

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

Early efforts to understand complexity in field theory have primarily employed a geometric approach based on the concept of circuit complexity in quantum information theory. In a parallel vein, it has been proposed that certain deformations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Hugo A. Camargo , Michal P. Heller , Ro Jefferson , Johannes Knaute

A general method to build the entanglement renormalization (cMERA) for interacting quantum field theories is presented. We improve upon the well-known Gaussian formalism used in free theories through a class of variational non-Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo , Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Emilio Torrente-Lujan

Liouville conformal field theory describes a random geometry that fluctuates around a deterministic one: the unique solution of the problem of finding, within a given conformal class, a Riemannian metric with prescribed scalar and geodesic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Baptiste Cerclé

We examine the circuit complexity of coherent states in a free scalar field theory, applying Nielsen's geometric approach as in [1]. The complexity of the coherent states have the same UV divergences as the vacuum state complexity and so we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-10 Minyong Guo , Juan Hernandez , Robert C. Myers , Shan-Ming Ruan

Quantifying quantum states' complexity is a key problem in various subfields of science, from quantum computing to black-hole physics. We prove a prominent conjecture by Brown and Susskind about how random quantum circuits' complexity…

This work is originally a Cambridge Part III essay paper. Quantum complexity arises as an alternative measure to the Fubini metric between two quantum states. Given two states and a set of allowed gates, it is defined as the least complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Andrea Russo

The use of entanglement renormalization in the presence of scale invariance is investigated. We explain how to compute an accurate approximation of the critical ground state of a lattice model, and how to evaluate local observables,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-04-10 Robert N. C. Pfeifer , Glen Evenbly , Guifre Vidal

The correlation functions for models of minimal gravity are discussed. An algorithm is proposed for calculations of invariant ratios from formulas of residues that can be compared with the coefficients of expansion of the partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 O. Kruglinskaya

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

In this work we use cMERA, a continuous tensor network, to find a Gaussian approximation to the ground state of a $T\bar{T}$-deformed scalar CFT on the line, to first order in the deformation parameter. The result is used to find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-18 Biel Cardona , Javier Molina-Vilaplana

We propose an adaptation of Entanglement Renormalization for quantum field theories that, through the use of discrete wavelet transforms, strongly parallels the tensor network architecture of the \emph{Multiscale Entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Daniele S. M. Alves

Understanding the limiting capabilities of classical methods in simulating complex quantum systems is of paramount importance for quantum technologies. Although many advanced approaches have been proposed and recently used to challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 I. A. Luchnikov , A. V. Berezutskii , A. K. Fedorov

Characterizing the quantum complexity of local random quantum circuits is a very deep problem with implications to the seemingly disparate fields of quantum information theory, quantum many-body physics and high energy physics. While our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jason Iaconis

The computation of the correlation numbers in Minimal Liouville Gravity involves an integration over moduli spaces of complex curves. There are two independent approaches to the calculation: the direct one, based on the CFT methods and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Konstantin Aleshkin , Vladimir Belavin

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 article, we investigate the physical implications of the causality constraint via effective sound speed $c_s(\leq 1)$ on Quantum Circuit Complexity(QCC) in the framework of Cosmological Effective Field Theory (COSMOEFT) using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-28 Sayantan Choudhury , Arghya Mukherjee , Nilesh Pandey , Abhishek Roy