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The symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity is a useful tool in studying chaotic properties of systems that are endowed with symmetries. We investigate the conditions under which an invariant operator would have the symmetry-resolved Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Shaliya Kotta , P N Bala Subramanian

The complexity of quantum evolutions can be understood by examining their dispersion in a chosen basis. Recent research has stressed the fact that the Krylov basis is particularly adept at minimizing this dispersion [V. Balasubramanian et…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Gastón F. Scialchi , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

We consider two dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) with large central charge c in an excited state obtained by the insertion of an operator \Phi with large dimension \Delta_\Phi ~ O(c) at spatial infinities in the thermal state. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Justin R. David , Timothy J. Hollowood , Surbhi Khetrapal , S. Prem Kumar

We investigate operator growth in quantum systems with two-dimensional Schr\"odinger group symmetry by studying the Krylov complexity. While feasible for semisimple Lie algebras, cases such as the Schr\"odinger algebra which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Dimitrios Patramanis , Watse Sybesma

We investigate Krylov complexity in open quantum systems using Lindblad master equations for bosonic bath models, with particular emphasis on the Caldeira--Leggett model. Krylov complexity is computed from the moments of the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Sayed Gool , S. Shajidul Haque

We compute out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in two-dimensional holographic conformal field theories (CFTs) with different left- and right-moving temperatures. Depending on whether the CFT lives on a spatial line or circle, the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-23 Ben Craps , Surbhi Khetrapal , Charles Rabideau

We study quantum-to-classical correspondence of the Krylov space for evolutions driven by unitary maps with a classical limit. This entails a proper definition of corresponding quantum and classical operators, inner products and initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Gastón F. Scialchi , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

Spread complexity uses the distribution of support of a time-evolving state in the Krylov basis to quantify dispersal across accessible dimensions of a Hilbert space. Here, we describe how variations in initial conditions, the Hamiltonian,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Vijay Balasubramanian , Pawel Caputa , Joan Simón

We investigate and characterize the dynamics of operator growth in irrational two-dimensional conformal field theories. By employing the oscillator realization of the Virasoro algebra and CFT states, we systematically implement the Lanczos…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Pawel Caputa , Shouvik Datta

In this paper we study Krylov complexity in the presence of single and multiple operators in the DSSYK model, where we can use the analytical techniques coming from chord diagrammatics. One of the results we obtain is that it showcases the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 Marco Ambrosini , Eliezer Rabinovici , Julian Sonner

We investigate minimal two-body Hamiltonians with random interactions that generate spectra resembling those of Gaussian random matrices, a phenomenon we term quadratic quantum chaos. Unlike integrable two-body fermionic systems, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Pallab Basu , Suman Das , Pratik Nandy

We investigate Krylov complexity in a simple quantum mechanical model describing a black hole coupled to its radiation. The model is constructed as a simplified ``mini-BMN" matrix system inspired by a recent proposal of Maldacena. Our aim…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Eric L Graef , Jeff Murugan , Horatiu Nastase , Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

Fast scrambling is a distinctive feature of quantum gravity, which by means of holography is closely tied to the behaviour of large$-c$ conformal field theories. We study this phenomenon in the context of semiclassical Liouville theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Julian Sonner , Benjamin Strittmatter

We compute the circuit complexity of scalar curvature perturbations on FLRW cosmological backgrounds with fixed equation of state $w$ using the language of squeezed vacuum states. Backgrounds that are accelerating and expanding, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-24 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saurya Das , S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

Fast scrambling, quantified by the exponential initial growth of Out-of-Time-Ordered-Correlators (OTOCs), is the ability to efficiently spread quantum correlations among the degrees of freedom of interacting systems, and constitutes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Felix Meier , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Daniel Waltner , Thomas Guhr

Krylov complexity and Nielsen complexity are successful approaches to quantifying quantum evolution complexity that have been actively pursued without much contact between the two lines of research. The two quantities are motivated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

Out-of-Time-Ordered Commutators (OTOCs), representing a key diagnostic for scrambling as a facet of short-time quantum chaos, have attracted wide-ranging interest, from many-body physics to quantum gravity. By means of a suitable form of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fabian Haneder , Gerrit Caspari , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

The exponential growth of the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has been proposed as a quantum signature of classical chaos. The growth rate is expected to coincide with the classical Lyapunov exponent. This quantum-classical…

We study operator complexity on various time scales with emphasis on those much larger than the scrambling period. We use, for systems with a large but finite number of degrees of freedom, the notion of K-complexity employed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 J. L. F. Barbon , E. Rabinovici , R. Shir , R. Sinha

$Circuit~ Complexity$, a well known computational technique has recently become the backbone of the physics community to probe the chaotic behaviour and random quantum fluctuations of quantum fields. This paper is devoted to the study of…

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