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The Lanczos process constructs a sequence of orthonormal vectors v_m spanning a nested sequence of Krylov subspaces generated by a hermitian matrix A and some starting vector b. In this paper we show how to cheaply recover a secondary…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-04-22 A. Frommer , K. Kahl , Th. Lippert , H. Rittich

The Gross-Neveu model defines a unitary CFT of interacting fermions in $2<d<4$ which has perturbative descriptions in the $1/N$ expansion and in the epsilon-expansion near two and four dimensions. In each of these descriptions, the CFT has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-18 S. Giombi , V. Kirilin , E. Skvortsov

We compute the rate of growth of operator size in matrix models by probing the Lin-Maldacena class of geometries with classical probes. We consider massive point particle probes whose proper momentum equals the size of the gauge invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Dibakar Roychowdhury

We propose that the size of an operator evolved under holographic renormalization group flow shall grow linearly with the scale and interpret this behavior as a manifestation of the saturation of the chaos bound. To test this conjecture, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-15 Xing Huang , Binchao Zhang

We elaborate on various aspects of the conformal field theory of the symmetric orbifold. We collect various results that have appeared in the literature, and we present a coherent picture of the operator content of this CFT, relying on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Konstantinos Roumpedakis

We develop a calculus of variations for functionals on certain spaces of conformal maps. Such a space \Omega\ is composed of all maps that are conformal on domains containing a fix compact annular set of the Riemann sphere, and that are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 Benjamin Doyon

We continue the analysis of the Krylov complexity in the IP matrix model. In a previous paper, for a fundamental operator, it was shown that at zero temperature, the Krylov complexity oscillates and does not grow, but in the infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 Norihiro Iizuka , Mitsuhiro Nishida

One can obtain exact information about Virasoro conformal blocks by analytically continuing the correlators of degenerate operators. We argued in recent work that this technique can be used to explicitly resolve information loss problems in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Hongbin Chen , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Daliang Li , Junpu Wang

We study operator entanglement measures of the unitary evolution operators of (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), aiming to uncover their scrambling and chaotic behaviors. In particular, we compute the bi-partite and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Laimei Nie , Masahiro Nozaki , Shinsei Ryu , Mao Tian Tan

In this paper we use the viewpoint of the formal calculus underlying vertex operator algebra theory to study certain aspects of the classical umbral calculus and we introduce and study certain operators generalizing the classical umbral…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Thomas J. Robinson

Recently introduced reparametrization mode operators in CFTs have been shown to govern stress tensor interactions $via$ the shadow operator formalism and seem to govern the effective dynamics of chaotic systems. We initiate a study of Ward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Arnab Kundu , Ayan K. Patra , Rohan R. Poojary

In this work, we use the master function approach to describe the CFT limit of the six-vertex model at the free fermion point. Using the ODE/IM correspondence, we obtain an explicit form of the master function. This allows us to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Sergei Adler , Hermann Boos

We consider several aspects of unitary higher-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We first study massive deformations that trigger a flow to a gapped phase. Deep inelastic scattering in the gapped phase leads to a convexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Zohar Komargodski , Alexander Zhiboedov

We propose and test logarithmic Krylov (logK) complexity, an operator growth measure akin to Krylov complexity defined through a replica approach, as a viable probe of early-time operator scrambling without false positives. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Hugo A. Camargo , Yichao Fu , Keun-Young Kim , Yeong Han Park

Approximating the action of a matrix function $f(\mathbf{A})$ on a vector $\mathbf{b}$ is an increasingly important primitive in machine learning, data science, and statistics, with applications such as sampling high dimensional Gaussians,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Noah Amsel , Tyler Chen , Anne Greenbaum , Cameron Musco , Chris Musco

Krylov complexity has recently emerged as a useful probe of operator growth and quantum dynamics in many-body systems and holographic dualities. In this paper we study its behavior in the Veneziano--Wosiek model, a supersymmetric matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Eleonora Alfinito , Matteo Beccaria

We study random quantum circuits with symmetry, where the local 2-site unitaries are drawn from a quotient or subgroup of the full unitary group $U(d)$. Random quantum circuits are minimal models of local quantum chaotic dynamics and can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Nicholas Hunter-Jones

In this sequel (to [Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 023044(2021)], arXiv:2006.10072), we study randomly driven $(1+1)$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), a family of quantum many-body systems with soluble non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-01 Xueda Wen , Yingfei Gu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruihua Fan

We prove the instability of $d$-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) having in the operator-product expansion of two fundamental fields a primary operator of scaling dimension $h=d/2+i r$, with non-vanishing $ r\in\mathbb{R}$. From…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-01 Dario Benedetti

In Ref. [arXiv:1005.4469], Alday and Tachikawa observed that the Nekrasov partition function of N=2 SU(2) superconformal gauge theories in the presence of fundamental surface operators can be associated to conformal blocks of a 2D CFT with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-22 Juan Pablo Babaro , Gaston Giribet