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As time passes, once simple quantum states tend to become more complex. For strongly coupled k-local Hamiltonians, this growth of computational complexity has been conjectured to follow a distinctive and universal pattern. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-28 Adam R. Brown , Leonard Susskind , Ying Zhao

In the probabilistic approach to quantum many-body systems, the ground-state energy is the solution of a nonlinear scalar equation written either as a cumulant expansion or as an expectation with respect to a probability distribution of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-04 Andrea Di Stefano , Massimo Ostilli , Carlo Presilla

We determine the ring structure of the equivariant quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points in the complex plane. The operator of quantum multiplication by the divisor class is a nonstationary deformation of the quantum…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-15 A. Okounkov , R. Pandharipande

We show that the entanglement structure of quantum many-body states defines a natural and optimal distributed representation for their simulation. An arbitrary entanglement cut induces a bipartite decomposition of the wavefunction, mapping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Adriano Amaricci

Open quantum systems are ubiquitous in the physical sciences, with widespread applications in the areas of chemistry, condensed matter physics, material science, optics, and many more. Not surprisingly, there is significant interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Isobel A. Aloisio , Gregory A. L. White , Charles D. Hill , Kavan Modi

Entanglement is one of the most important concepts in quantum physics. We review recent progress in understanding the quantum entanglement in many-body systems using large-$N$ solvable models: the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Pengfei Zhang

A non-unitary version of quantum scattering is studied via an exactly solvable toy model. The model is merely asymptotically local since the smooth path of the coordinate is admitted complex in the non-asymptotic domain. At any real…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Miloslav Znojil

A catalyst is a substance that enables otherwise impossible transformations between states of a system, without being consumed in the process. In this work, we apply the notion of catalysts to many-body quantum physics. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 David T. Stephen , Rahul Nandkishore , Jian-Hao Zhang

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

We introduce "quantum barcodes," a theoretical framework that applies persistent homology to classify topological phases in quantum many-body systems. By mapping quantum states to classical data points through strategic observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Khyathi Komalan

Kinetic constraints in quantum many-body systems strongly restrict the accessible Hilbert space, giving rise to highly nontrivial dynamical behavior. In recent years, such systems have attracted growing interest as they provide insight into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Arkaprava Sil , Sudipto Singha Roy

Controlling the topological properties of quantum matter is a major goal of condensed matter physics. A major effort in this direction has been devoted to using classical light in the form of Floquet drives to manipulate and induce states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Olesia Dmytruk , Marco Schirò

The discovery of topological features of quantum states plays an important role in modern condensed matter physics and various artificial systems. Due to the absence of local order parameters, the detection of topological quantum phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Krylov complexity has emerged as an important tool in the description of quantum information and, in particular, quantum chaos. Here we formulate Krylov complexity $K(t)$ for quantum mechanical systems as a path integral, and argue that at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Cameron Beetar , Eric L Graef , Jeff Murugan , Horatiu Nastase , Hendrik J R Van Zyl

Non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems are attracting widespread interest for their exotic properties, including unconventional quantum criticality and topology. Here we study how quantum information and correlations spread under a quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 Xhek Turkeshi , Marco Schiró

Quantifying complexity in quantum systems has witnessed a surge of interest in recent years, with Krylov-based measures such as Krylov complexity ($C_K$) and Spread complexity ($C_S$) gaining prominence. In this study, we investigate their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-10 Pawel Caputa , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Sinong Liu , Juan F. Pedraza , Le-Chen Qu

We quantify the emergent complexity of quantum states near quantum critical points on regular 1D lattices, via complex network measures based on quantum mutual information as the adjacency matrix, in direct analogy to quantifying the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-06 Marc Andrew Valdez , Daniel Jaschke , David L. Vargas , Lincoln D. Carr

The circuit complexity of time-evolved pure quantum states grows linearly in time for an exponentially long time. This behavior has been proven in certain models, is conjectured to hold for generic quantum many-body systems, and is believed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Yale Fan , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Andreas Karch , Shivan Mittal

We design a setup to realize tunable topological phases in elastic photonic crystals. Using the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model as a canonical example, we show how a system can be continuously tuned across its topological phase transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Ehsan Saei Ghareh Naz , Ion Cosma Fulga , Libo Ma , Oliver G. Schmidt , Jeroen van den Brink

The geometry of quantum states can be an indicator of criticality, yet it remains less explored under non-Hermitian topological conditions. In this work, we unveil diverse scalings of the quantum geometry over the ground state manifold…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-20 Y R Kartik , Jhih-Shih You , H. H. Jen