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We construct quantum circuits which exactly encode the spectra of correlated electron models up to errors from rotation synthesis. By invoking these circuits as oracles within the recently introduced "qubitization" framework, one can use…

An operator-valued quantum phase space formula is constructed. The phase space formula of Quantum Mechanics provides a natural link between first and second quantization, thus contributing to the understanding of quantization problem. By…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Dong-Sheng Wang

We study equivariant localization formulas for phase space path integrals when the phase space is a multiply connected compact Riemann surface. We consider the Hamiltonian systems to which the localization formulas are applicable and show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Gordon W. Semenoff , Richard J. Szabo

In this study, we explore a form of quantum circuit complexity that extends to open systems. To illustrate our methodology, we focus on a basic model where the projective Hilbert space of states is depicted by the set of orientations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 E. M. F. Curado , S. Faci , J. P. Gazeau , T. Koide , A. C. Maioli , D. Noguera

As time passes, once simple quantum states tend to become more complex. For strongly coupled k-local Hamiltonians, this growth of computational complexity has been conjectured to follow a distinctive and universal pattern. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-28 Adam R. Brown , Leonard Susskind , Ying Zhao

We introduce "binding complexity", a new notion of circuit complexity which quantifies the difficulty of distributing entanglement among multiple parties, each consisting of many local degrees of freedom. We define binding complexity of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-18 Vijay Balasubramanian , Matthew DeCross , Arjun Kar , Onkar Parrikar

This paper addresses the question why quantum mechanics is formulated in a unitary Hilbert space, i.e. in a manifestly complex setting. Investigating the linear dynamics of real quantum theory in a finite-dimensional Euclidean Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Andreas Aste

We compute the quantum circuit complexity of the evolution of scalar curvature perturbations on expanding backgrounds, using the language of squeezed vacuum states. In particular, we construct a simple cosmological model consisting of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-22 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saurya Das , S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

We investigate notions of complexity of states in continuous quantum-many body systems. We focus on Gaussian states which include ground states of free quantum field theories and their approximations encountered in the context of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-15 Shira Chapman , Michal P. Heller , Hugo Marrochio , Fernando Pastawski

We establish a direct connection between spread complexity and quantum circuit complexity by demonstrating that spread complexity emerges as a limiting case of a circuit complexity framework built from two fundamental operations:…

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

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

Finite-dimensional Quantum Mechanics can be geometrically formulated as a proper classical-like Hamiltonian theory in a projective Hilbert space. The description of composite quantum systems within the geometric Hamiltonian framework is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Davide Pastorello

We study circuit complexity for spatial regions in holographic field theories. We study analogues based on the entanglement wedge of the bulk quantities appearing in the "complexity = volume" and "complexity = action" conjectures. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-29 Cesar A. Agón , Matthew Headrick , Brian Swingle

We use complexity theory to rigorously investigate the difficulty of classically simulating evolution under many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians. Using the defining feature that MBL systems have a complete set of quasilocal integrals of…

An analysis of classical mechanics in a complex extension of phase space shows that a particle in such a space can behave in a way redolant of quantum mechanics; additional degrees of freedom permit 'tunnelling' without recourse to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Ray J. Rivers

Despite rapidly growing interest in harnessing machine learning in the study of quantum many-body systems, training neural networks to identify quantum phases is a nontrivial challenge. The key challenge is in efficiently extracting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-31 Yi Zhang , Eun-Ah Kim

We propose that finite cutoff regions of holographic spacetimes represent quantum circuits that map between boundary states at different times and Wilsonian cutoffs, and that the complexity of those quantum circuits is given by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 A. Ramesh Chandra , Jan de Boer , Mario Flory , Michal P. Heller , Sergio Hörtner , Andrew Rolph

In certain scenarios of deformed relativistic symmetries relevant for non-commutative field theories particles exhibit a momentum space described by a non-abelian group manifold. Starting with a formulation of phase space for such particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-28 Michele Arzano

The study of topological quantum field theories increasingly relies upon concepts from higher-dimensional algebra such as n-categories and n-vector spaces. We review progress towards a definition of n-category suited for this purpose, and…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 John C. Baez , James Dolan

A 4-dimensional Lorentzian static space-time is equivalent to 3-dimensional Euclidean gravity coupled to a massless Klein-field. By canonically quantizing the coupling model in the framework of loop quantum gravity, we obtain a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Yongge Ma