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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

Describing and understanding the motion of quantum gases out of equilibrium is one of the most important modern challenges for theorists. In the groundbreaking Quantum Newton Cradle experiment [Kinoshita, Wenger and Weiss, Nature 440, 900,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 Jean-Sébastien Caux , Benjamin Doyon , Jérôme Dubail , Robert Konik , Takato Yoshimura

Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum circuit complexity provides a Riemannian framework for quantifying the cost of implementing unitary (closed--system) dynamics. For open dynamics, however, the reduced evolution is described by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Alberto Acevedo , Antonio Falcó

We consider Quantum Electrodynamics in $2{+}1$ dimensions with $N_f$ fermionic or bosonic flavors, allowing for interactions that respect the global symmetry $U(N_f/2)^2$. There are four bosonic and four fermionic fixed points, which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Sergio Benvenuti , Hrachya Khachatryan

We propose a generalization of equations of quantum mechanics in the hydrodynamic form by introducing the terms taking into account the diffusion velocity at zero and finite temperatures and the density energy of diffusion pressure of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-08 O. N. Golubjeva , A. D. Sukhanov , V. G. Bar'yakhtar

A key problem in the attempt to quantize the gravitational field is the choice of boundary conditions. These are mixed, in that spatial and normal components of metric perturbations obey different sets of boundary conditions. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan G. Avramidi , Giampiero Esposito

We revisit the geodesic approach to ideal hydrodynamics and present a related geometric framework for Newton's equations on groups of diffeomorphisms and spaces of probability densities. The latter setting is sufficiently general to include…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Boris Khesin , Gerard Misiolek , Klas Modin

Arnold pointed out that the Euler equation of incompressible ideal hydrodynamics describes geodesics on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. A simple analogue is the Euler equation for a rigid body, which is the geodesic equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 S. G. Rajeev

The quantum dynamics of electron-nuclear systems is analyzed from the perspective of the exact factorization of the wavefunction, with the aim of defining gauge invariant equations of motion for both the nuclei and the electrons. For pure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Rocco Martinazzo , Irene Burghardt

This thesis develops recent work on the so called Volume-Complexity and Action-Complexity conjectures. According to this family of proposals, geometric quantities can be defined in some holographic gravitational theories that can be mapped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Javier Martin-Garcia

We present a consistent scheme of quantization of chiral flows (flows with extensive vorticity) in ideal hydrodynamics in two dimensions. Chiral flows occur in rotating superfluid, rotating turbulence and also in electronic systems in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-23 P. Wiegmann

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

Various two-dimensional O(N) models coupled to Euclidean quantum gravity, whose intrinsic dimension is four, are shown to belong to universality classes of nongravitating statistical models in a lower number of dimensions. It is speculated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-16 Wolfhard Janke , Adriaan M. J. Schakel

We introduce non-perturbative analytical techniques for the derivation of the hydrodynamic manifolds from kinetic equations. The new approach is analogous to the Schwinger-Dyson equation of quantum field theories, and its derivation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 I. V. Karlin , S. S. Chikatamarla , M. Kooshkbaghi

In 1991, Moore [20] raised a question about whether hydrodynamics is capable of performing computations. Similarly, in 2016, Tao [25] asked whether a mechanical system, including a fluid flow, can simulate a universal Turing machine. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert Cardona , Eva Miranda , Daniel Peralta-Salas

Basic equations of nonequilibrium thermo field dynamics of dense quantum systems are presented. A formulation of nonequilibrium thermo field dynamics has been performed using the nonequilibrium statistical operator method by D.N.Zubarev.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Tokarchuk , T. Arimitsu , A. E. Kobryn

Quantum complexity has already shed light on CFT states dual to bulk geometries containing spacelike singularities \cite{Barbon:2015ria, Bolognesi:2018ion, Caputa:2021pad}. In this work, we turn our attention to quantum complexity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Gaurav Katoch , Jie Ren , Shubho R. Roy

We construct an ensemble of two-dimensional nonintegrable quantum circuits that are chaotic but have a conserved particle current, and thus a finite Drude weight. The long-wavelength hydrodynamics of such systems is given by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-11 Hansveer Singh , Ewan McCulloch , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

In this article we investigate the two-dimensional incompressible rotating and stratified, just rotating, just stratified Euler equations with each other and with the normal Euler equations with the self-similar Ansatz. There are analytic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-25 Imre Ferenc Barna , László Mátyás

We propose a method for demonstrating equivalences beyond the saddlepoint approximation between quantities in quantum gravity that are defined by the Euclidean path integral, without assumptions about holographic duality. The method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Vijay Balasubramanian , Tom Yildirim