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Given a quantum Hamiltonian and its evolution time, the corresponding unitary evolution operator can be constructed in many different ways, corresponding to different trajectories between the desired end-points. A choice among these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Apoorva Patel

Societal complexity may be at a historical peak. Distinct from entropy, complexity tends to rise as systems move away from order, crest at an intermediate state, and decline as entropy continues increasing. The use of a thermodynamic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-08 Theodore Modis

The concept of quantum complexity has far-reaching implications spanning theoretical computer science, quantum many-body physics, and high energy physics. The quantum complexity of a unitary transformation or quantum state is defined as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-02 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Wissam Chemissany , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Richard Kueng , John Preskill

Recently, the out-of-time-ordered correlator(OTOC) and Krylov complexity have been studied actively as a measure of operator growth. OTOC is known to exhibit exponential growth in chaotic systems, which was confirmed in many previous works.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Seungjoo Baek

We study the complexity of both time-optimal and time sub-optimal quantum Hamiltonian evolutions connecting arbitrary source and a target states on the Bloch sphere equipped with the Fubini-Study metric. This investigation is performed in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Carlo Cafaro , Leonardo Rossetti , Paul M. Alsing

Information scrambling refers to the phenomenon in which local quantum information in a many-body system becomes dispersed throughout the entire system under unitary evolution. It has been extensively studied in closed quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Haolin Jiang , Pengfei Zhang

Entropy rate of sequential data-streams naturally quantifies the complexity of the generative process. Thus entropy rate fluctuations could be used as a tool to recognize dynamical perturbations in signal sources, and could potentially be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Ishanu Chattopadhyay , Hod Lipson

We consider the task of estimating the entropy of $k$-ary distributions from samples in the streaming model, where space is limited. Our main contribution is an algorithm that requires $O\left(\frac{k \log…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Jayadev Acharya , Sourbh Bhadane , Piotr Indyk , Ziteng Sun

Cellular automata (CA) exemplify systems where simple local interaction rules can lead to intricate and complex emergent phenomena at large scales. The various types of dynamical behavior of CA are usually categorized empirically into…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-06-10 Wout Merbis , Calvin Bakker

Krylov complexity is a novel measure of operator complexity that exhibits universal behavior and bounds a large class of other measures. In this letter, we generalize Krylov complexity from a closed system to an open system coupled to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-11 Chang Liu , Haifeng Tang , Hui Zhai

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

OTOC has been used to characterize the information scrambling in quantum systems. Recent studies showed that local conserved quantities play a crucial role in governing the relaxation dynamics of OTOC in non-integrable systems. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Vinitha Balachandran , Dario Poletti

We study theoretically entanglement and operator growth in a spin system coupled to an environment, which is modeled with classical dephasing noise. Using exact numerical simulations we show that the entanglement growth and its fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-16 Michael Knap

This work addresses how the growth of invariant operators is influenced by their underlying symmetry structure. For this purpose, we introduce the symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity, which captures the time evolution of each block into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Pawel Caputa , Giuseppe Di Giulio , Tran Quang Loc

We calculate the cosmological complexity under the framework of scalar curvature perturbations for a K-essence model with constant potential. In particular, the squeezed quantum states are defined by acting a two-mode squeezed operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-26 Ai-chen Li , Xin-Fei Li , Ding-fang Zeng , Lei-Hua Liu

The question of thermalization in quantum many-body systems has long been studied through the properties of matrix elements of operators corresponding to local observables. More recently, the focus has shifted to the dynamics of operators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam , Jan M. Rost , Stuart C. Althorpe

It is well established that the presence of single impurity can have a substantial impact on the transport properties of quantum many-body systems at low temperature. In this work, we investigate a close analog of this problem from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Qucheng Gao , Pengfei Zhang , Xiao Chen

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is the leading conjecture for the emergence of statistical mechanics in generic isolated quantum systems and is formulated in terms of the matrix elements of operators. An analog known as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-04 Siddharth Jindal , Pavan Hosur

We study quantum information scrambling, specifically the growth of Heisenberg operators, in large disordered spin chains using matrix product operator dynamics to scan across the thermalization-localization quantum phase transition. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-23 Subhayan Sahu , Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

In a many-body quantum system, local operators in Heisenberg picture $O(t) = e^{i H t} O e^{-i H t}$ spread as time increases. Recent studies have attempted to find features of that spreading which could distinguish between chaotic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-16 Vincenzo Alba , Jerome Dubail , Marko Medenjak
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