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Motivated by recent studies of quantum computational complexity in quantum field theory and holography, we discuss how weighting certain classes of gates building up a quantum circuit more heavily than others does affect the complexity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Ibrahim Akal

Defining complexity in quantum field theory is a difficult task, and the main challenge concerns going beyond free models and associated Gaussian states and operations. One take on this issue is to consider conformal field theories in 1+1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Mario Flory , Michal P. Heller

The operator approach is applied to investigate the complexity of Bose-Hubbard model. We present a systematic method to expand the quantum complexity in series of coupling constant. We first study 2-sites system. For the ground state we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Wung-Hong Huang

A Euclidean formulation of relativistic quantum mechanics for systems of a finite number of degrees of freedom is discussed. Relativistic treatments of quantum theory are needed to study hadronic systems at sub-hadronic distance scales.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 Gohin Shaikh Samad , W. N. Polyzou

We construct a time-dependent expression of the computational complexity of a quantum system which consists of two conformal complex scalar field theories in d dimensions coupled to constant electric potentials and defined on the boundaries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Musema Sinamuli , Robert B. Mann

We compute an upper bound on the circuit complexity of quantum states in $3d$ Chern-Simons theory corresponding to certain classes of knots. Specifically, we deal with states in the torus Hilbert space of Chern-Simons that are the knot…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-30 Giancarlo Camilo , Dmitry Melnikov , Fábio Novaes , Andrea Prudenziati

Notions of circuit complexity and cost play a key role in quantum computing and simulation where they capture the (weighted) minimal number of gates that is required to implement a unitary. Similar notions also become increasingly prominent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 J. Eisert

The Lorentzian Hamiltonian constraint is solved for isotropic loop quantum cosmology coupled to a massless scalar field. As in the Euclidean case, the discreteness of quantum geometry removes the classical singularity from the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Franz Hinterleitner , Seth Major

Quantum computational complexity estimates the difficulty of constructing quantum states from elementary operations, a problem of prime importance for quantum computation. Surprisingly, this quantity can also serve to study a completely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Shira Chapman , Giuseppe Policastro

In quantum chemistry, the price paid by all known efficient model chemistries is either the truncation of the Hilbert space or uncontrolled approximations. Theoretical computer science suggests that these restrictions are not mere…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 James D. Whitfield , Peter J. Love , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Modern understanding of symmetry in quantum field theory includes both invertible and non-invertible operations. Motivated by this, we extend Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum circuit complexity to incorporate non-invertible gates.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Saskia Demulder

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

This thesis, explores the quantum entanglement and evolution through both a geometric and dynamical perspective. The first part focuses on classical phase space and its central role in Hamiltonian mechanics, emphasizing the importance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Jamal Elfakir

Inspired by the universality of computation, we advocate for a principle of spacetime complexity, where gravity arises as a consequence of spacetime optimizing the computational cost of its own quantum dynamics. This principle is explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Juan F. Pedraza , Andrea Russo , Andrew Svesko , Zachary Weller-Davies

According to the pioneering work of Nielsen and collaborators, the length of the minimal geodesic in a geometric realization of a suitable operator space provides a measure of the quantum complexity of an operation. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

In quantum mechanics without application of any superselection rule to the set of the observables, a closed quantum system temporally evolves unitarily, and this Lorentzian regime is characterized by von Neumann entropy of exactly zero. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Eiji Konishi

Topological quantum matter represents a flexible playground to engineer unconventional excitations. While non-interacting topological single-particle systems have been studied in detail, topology in quantum many-body systems remains an open…

The quantum mechanics of superconducting circuits is derived by starting from a classical Hamiltonian dynamical system describing a dissipationless circuit, usually made of capacitive and inductive elements. However, standard approaches to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Andrew Osborne , Andrew Lucas

Why does quantum theory need the complex numbers? With a view toward answering this question, this paper argues that the usual Hilbert-space formalism is a special case of the general method of Markovian embeddings. This paper then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jacob A. Barandes

In this work, we investigate the relation between different notions of quantum complexity, namely, circuit and spread complexity and physically meaningful quantities such as the particle content of the quantum state and the variances of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Satyaki Chowdhury