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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-03 Zvi Bern , Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Alexander Zhiboedov

In this paper, we investigate the circuit complexity of a quantum charged particle in an external magnetic field. Utilizing the Nielsen approach, we determine the complexity of thermofield double states as functions of time, temperature,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 M. Radomirov

We initiate a study of the complexity of quantum field theories (QFTs) by proposing a measure of information contained in a QFT and its observables. We show that from minimal assertions, one is naturally led to measure complexity by two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Thomas W. Grimm , Mick van Vliet

In this paper, we investigate the circuit complexity of a quantum harmonic oscillator subjected to an external magnetic field. Utilizing the Nielsen approach within the thermofield dynamics (TFD) framework, we determine the complexity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 V. Avramov , M. Radomirov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

By using a recent approach proposed by Hackl $et\, al.$ to evaluate the complexity of the free fermionic Gaussian state, we compute the complexity of the Dirac vacuum state as well as the excited state of the Fermi system with a mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-25 Jie Jiang , Jieru Shan , Jianzhi Yang

The axion is much lighter than all other degrees of freedom introduced by the Peccei-Quinn mechanism to solve the strong CP problem. It is therefore natural to use an effective field theory (EFT) to describe its interactions. Loop processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Fatih Ertas , Joerg Jaeckel , Felix Kahlhoefer , Lennert J. Thormaehlen

Motivated by the idea that consistent quantum field theories should admit a finite description, we investigate the complexity of effective field theories using the framework of effective o-minimality. Our focus is on quantifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Martin Carrascal , Ferdy Ellen , Thomas W. Grimm , David Prieto

The effective field theory (EFT) for triaxially deformed even-even nuclei is generalized to include the vibrational degrees of freedom. The pertinent Hamiltonian is constructed up to next-to-leading order. The leading order part describes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Q. B. Chen , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner , J. Meng

We define circuits given by unitary representations of Lorentzian conformal field theory in 3 and 4 dimensions. Our circuits start from a spinning primary state, allowing us to generalize formulas for the circuit complexity obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Robert de Mello Koch , Minkyoo Kim , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

Nielsen's approach to quantum state complexity relates the minimal number of quantum gates required to prepare a state to the length of geodesics computed with a certain norm on the manifold of unitary transformations. For a bipartite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-18 Stefano Baiguera , Shira Chapman , Giuseppe Policastro , Tal Schwartzman

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

Quantum circuit complexity has played a central role in recent advances in holography and many-body physics. Within quantum field theory, it has typically been studied in a Lorentzian (real-time) framework. In a departure from standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Josiah Couch , Yale Fan , Sanjit Shashi

We review the effective field theories (EFTs) developed for few-nucleon systems. These EFTs are controlled expansions in momenta, where certain (leading-order) interactions are summed to all orders. At low energies, an EFT with only contact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. F. Bedaque , U. van Kolck

Characterizing the quantum complexity of local random quantum circuits is a very deep problem with implications to the seemingly disparate fields of quantum information theory, quantum many-body physics and high energy physics. While our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jason Iaconis

Inspired by Solomonoffs theory of inductive inference, we propose a prior based on circuit complexity. There are several advantages to this approach. First, it relies on a complexity measure that does not depend on the choice of UTM. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Cole Wyeth , Carl Sturtivant

We apply a semi-classical method to compute the conformal field theory (CFT) data for the U(N)xU(N) non-abelian Higgs theory in four minus epsilon dimensions at its complex fixed point. The theory features more than one coupling and walking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Oleg Antipin , Jahmall Bersini , Francesco Sannino , Zhi-Wei Wang , Chen Zhang

In this paper, we study circuit complexity in Proca theory with Nielsen's approach and Fubini-Study (FS) metric approach. We place the fields on a lattice to gain a regularized theory, and obtain the ground state by adopting proper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 Kun Meng , Meihua Deng , Jiaqiang Zhao , Lianzhen Cao

Two-dimensional conformal field theories with extended $\cal{W}$-symmetry algebras have dual descriptions in terms of weakly coupled higher spin gravity in AdS$_3\,$ at large central charge. Observables that can be computed and compared in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Jan de Boer , Alejandra Castro , Eliot Hijano , Juan I. Jottar , Per Kraus

We study models that give rise to scalar-tensor effective field theories (EFTs) at low energies. Our framework involves massive particles of spin $S=0, 1/2, 1$ coupled to gravity and to a real massless scalar in the UV. Integrating out the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Edoardo Alviani , Adam Falkowski , Panagiotis Marinellis

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma