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Complexity of dynamics is at the core of quantum many-body chaos and exhibits a hierarchical feature: higher-order complexity implies more chaotic dynamics. Conventional ergodicity in thermalization processes is a manifestation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Kazuya Kaneko , Eiki Iyoda , Takahiro Sagawa

In closed quantum systems, Krylov complexity admits a geometric description; operator growth is equivalent to Hamiltonian flow in an emergent phase space whose structure is fixed by the Lanczos coefficients. We show that this picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Mpho Tladi , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

In this series of works, we study exactly solvable non-unitary time evolutions in one-dimensional quantum critical systems ranging from quantum quenches to time-dependent drivings. In this part I, we are motivated by the recent works of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-30 Xueda Wen

In this work, we study the information scrambling and the entanglement dynamics in the complex Brownian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cBSYK) models, focusing on their dependence on the charge density $n$. We first derive the effective theory for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-15 Pengfei Zhang

Krylov complexity is a novel approach to study how an operator spreads over a specific basis. Recently, it has been stated that this quantity has a long-time saturation that depends on the amount of chaos in the system. Since this quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Bernardo L. Español , Diego A. Wisniacki

We give arguments for the existence of a thermodynamics of quantum complexity that includes a "Second Law of Complexity". To guide us, we derive a correspondence between the computational (circuit) complexity of a quantum system of $K$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-07 Adam R. Brown , Leonard Susskind

Krylov complexity is a measure of operator growth in quantum systems, based on the number of orthogonal basis vectors needed to approximate the time evolution of an operator. In this paper, we study the Krylov complexity of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Cameron Beetar , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J R Van Zyl

This article investigates emergence and complexity in complex systems that can share information on a network. To this end, we use a theoretical approach from information theory, computability theory, and complex networks. One key studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Felipe S. Abrahão , Klaus Wehmuth , Artur Ziviani

Entropy always increases monotonically in a closed system but complexity increases at first and then decreases as equilibrium is approached. Commonsense information-related definitions for entropy and complexity demonstrate that complexity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-26 Theodore Modis

Ensemble of initial conditions for nonlinear maps can be described in terms of entropy. This ensemble entropy shows an asymptotic linear growth with rate K. The rate K matches the logarithm of the corresponding asymptotic sensitivity to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-04 Massmimo Coraddu , Marcello Lissia , Roberto Tonelli

The fusion rules and operator product expansion (OPE) serve as crucial tools in the study of operator algebras within conformal field theory (CFT). Building upon the vision of using entanglement to explore the connections between fusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang , Long Zhao , Zi-Xuan Zhao

For any quantum algorithm given by a path in the space of unitary operators we define the computational complexity as the typical computational time associated with the path. This time is defined using a quantum time estimator associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Cesar Gomez

Quantum complexity, suitably defined, has been suggested as an important probe of late-time dynamics of black holes, particularly in the context of AdS/CFT. A notion of quantum complexity can be effectively captured by quantifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

We study Nielsen's circuit complexity in a periodic harmonic oscillator chain, under single and multiple quenches. In a multiple quench scenario, it is shown that the complexity shows remarkably different behaviour compared to the other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Kuntal Pal , Kunal Pal , Ankit Gill , Tapobrata Sarkar

Operator scrambling, which governs the spread of quantum information in many-body systems, is a central concept in both condensed matter and high-energy physics. Accurately capturing the emergent properties of these systems remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tianfeng Feng , Yue Cao , Qi Zhao

Quantum machine learning (QML) holds promise for accelerating pattern recognition, optimization, and data analysis, but the conditions under which it can truly outperform classical approaches remain unclear. Existing research often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Christophe Pere

The entangling power and operator entanglement entropy are state independent measures of entanglement. Their growth and saturation is examined in the time-evolution operator of quantum many-body systems that can range from the integrable to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Rajarshi Pal , Arul Lakshminarayan

Quantum scrambling describes the spreading of local information into many degrees of freedom in quantum systems. This provides the conceptual connection among diverse phenomena ranging from thermalizing quantum dynamics to models of black…

Chaos and complexity entail an entropic and computational obstruction to describing a system, and thus are intrinsically difficult to characterize. In this paper, we consider time evolution by Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE) Hamiltonians…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-16 Jordan Cotler , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Junyu Liu , Beni Yoshida

We use Krylov complexity to study operator growth in the $q$-body dissipative SYK model, where the dissipation is modeled by linear and random $p$-body Lindblad operators. In the large $q$ limit, we analytically establish the linear growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak