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Complexity in quantum physics measures how difficult a state can be reached from a reference state and more precisely it is the number of fundamental unitary gates we have to operate to transform the reference state to the state we are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-05 Hao Geng

Krylov complexity (K-complexity) is a measure of quantum state complexity that minimizes wavefunction spreading across all the possible bases. It serves as a key indicator of operator growth and quantum chaos. In this work, K-complexity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 J. Bharathi Kannan , Sreeram PG , Sanku Paul , S. Harshini Tekur , M. S. Santhanam

Krylov complexity measures the spread of the wavefunction in the Krylov basis, which is constructed using the Hamiltonian and an initial state. We investigate the evolution of the maximally entangled state in the Krylov basis for both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Johanna Erdmenger , Shao-Kai Jian , Zhuo-Yu Xian

Krylov complexity has recently emerged as a new paradigm to characterize quantum chaos in many-body systems. However, which features of Krylov complexity are prerogative of quantum chaotic systems and how they relate to more standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

We apply a notion of quantum complexity, called "Krylov complexity", to study the evolution of systems from integrability to chaos. For this purpose we investigate the integrable XXZ spin chain, enriched with an integrability breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

Krylov complexity has emerged as a new probe of operator growth in a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. However, a fundamental issue remains in such studies: the definition of the distance between basis states in Krylov space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang , Qi Zhou

The dynamics of quantum systems unfolds within a subspace of the state space or operator space, known as the Krylov space. This review presents the use of Krylov subspace methods to provide an efficient description of quantum evolution and…

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

We study the statistical properties of the spread complexity in the Krylov space of quantum systems driven across a quantum phase transition. Using the diabatic Magnus expansion, we map the evolution to an effective one-dimensional hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 András Grabarits , Adolfo del Campo

In closed quantum systems, Krylov complexity admits a geometric description; operator growth is equivalent to Hamiltonian flow in an emergent phase space whose structure is fixed by the Lanczos coefficients. We show that this picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Mpho Tladi , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We propose and calculate a holographic Krylov complexity in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM via the proper momentum for motion in $AdS_5$ sliced by $AdS_3$. The motion in an $AdS_3$ subgroup corresponds to the Krylov complexity of the $Sl(2)$ subsector.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Ali Fatemiabhari , Horatiu Nastase , Dibakar Roychowdhury

Heisenberg time evolution under a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian $H$ transforms an initially simple operator into an increasingly complex one, as it spreads over Hilbert space. Krylov complexity, or `K-complexity', quantifies this growth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

We develop a theory of the algorithmic information in bits contained in an individual pure quantum state. This extends classical Kolmogorov complexity to the quantum domain retaining classical descriptions. Quantum Kolmogorov complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Paul M. B. Vitanyi

We investigate Krylov complexity in a simple quantum mechanical model describing a black hole coupled to its radiation. The model is constructed as a simplified ``mini-BMN" matrix system inspired by a recent proposal of Maldacena. Our aim…

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

We investigate the complexity of states and operators evolved with the modular Hamiltonian by using the Krylov basis. In the first part, we formulate the problem for states and analyse different examples, including quantum mechanics,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Pawel Caputa , Javier M. Magan , Dimitrios Patramanis , Erik Tonni

In holography, the complexity--momentum correspondence relates the increasing momentum of a point particle falling into an eternal black hole to the rate of growth of the Krylov complexity of the dual boundary state, a conjecture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Eleonora Alfinito , Matteo Beccaria

We examine the holographic complexity conjectures in the context of holographic theories of FRW spacetimes. Analyzing first the complexity-action conjecture for a flat FRW universe with one component, we find that the complexity grows as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Reginald J. Caginalp

We give arguments for the existence of a thermodynamics of quantum complexity that includes a "Second Law of Complexity". To guide us, we derive a correspondence between the computational (circuit) complexity of a quantum system of $K$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-07 Adam R. Brown , Leonard Susskind

This paper defines a complexity between states in quantum field theory by introducing a Finsler structure based on ladder operators (the generalization of creation and annihilation operators). Two simple models are shown as examples to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-09 Run-Qiu Yang

In this work, we investigate local quench dynamics in two-dimensional conformal field theories using Krylov space methods. We derive Lanczos coefficients, spread complexity, and Krylov entropies for local joining and splitting quenches in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Pawel Caputa , Giuseppe Di Giulio