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We study a quantum phase transition between a phase which is topologically ordered and one which is not. We focus on a spin model, an extension of the toric code, for which we obtain the exact ground state for all values of the coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 C. Castelnovo , C. Chamon

The rate of complexification of a quantum state is conjectured to be bounded from above by the average energy of the state. A different conjecture relates the complexity of a holographic CFT state to the on-shell gravitational action of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-09 Mudassir Moosa

The ground state of $^4$He confined in a system with the topology of a cylinder can display properties of a solid, superfluid and liquid crystal. This phase, which we call compactified supersolid (CSS), originates from wrapping the basal…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-29 Lode Pollet , Anatoly Kuklov

Gapped fracton phases of matter generalize the concept of topological order and broaden our fundamental understanding of entanglement in quantum many-body systems. However, their analytical or numerical description beyond exactly solvable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-30 Guo-Yi Zhu , Ji-Yao Chen , Peng Ye , Simon Trebst

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

Quantum complexity is a measure of the minimal number of elementary operations required to approximately prepare a given state or unitary channel. Recently, this concept has found applications beyond quantum computing -- in studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Michał Oszmaniec , Marcin Kotowski , Michał Horodecki , Nicholas Hunter-Jones

We investigate the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in presence of an injection and removal of particles, introduced via a master equation in Lindblad form. It is shown that the dynamics of the density matrix follows the predictions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Marcel Klett , Holger Cartarius , Dennis Dast , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

It is suggested that many-body quantum chaos appears as the spontaneous symmetry breaking of unitarity in interacting quantum many-body systems. It has been shown that many-body level statistics, probed by the spectral form factor (SFF)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-21 Yunxiang Liao , Victor Galitski

We explore topology-localization phase diagram by simulating one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with quasiperiodic disorder using a programmable superconducting simulator. We experimentally map out and identify various trivial…

In recent years, the entanglement spectra of quantum states have been identified to be highly valuable for improving our understanding on many problems in quantum physics, such as classification of topological phases, symmetry-breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 Bin Cheng , Man-Hong Yung

The coupling between two or more objects can generally be categorized as strong or weak. In cavity quantum electrodynamics for example, when the coupling strength is larger than the loss rate the coupling is termed strong, and otherwise it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 C. A. Downing , A. J. Toghill

Considering the large-$q$ expansion of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the two-stage limit, we compute the Lanczos coefficients, Krylov complexity, and the higher Krylov cumulants in subleading order, along with the $t/q$ effects. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak

Scar states are special many-body eigenstates that weakly violate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). Using the explicit formalism of the Lanczos algorithm, usually known as the forward scattering approximation in this context,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Samudra Sur , Pratik Nandy

We numerically investigate the characteristics of the long-time dynamics of a single-site wave-packet excitation in a disordered and nonlinear Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. In the linear regime, as the parameters controlling the topology of…

The statistical complexity of continuous-variable quantum states can be characterized with a quantifier defined in terms of information-theoretic quantities derived from the Husimi Q-function. In this work, we utilize this complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Siting Tang , Francesco Albarelli , Yue Zhang , Shunlong Luo , Matteo G. A. Paris

Recently it has been shown that the complexity of SU($n$) operator is determined by the geodesic length in a bi-invariant Finsler geometry, which is constrained by some symmetries of quantum field theory. It is based on three axioms and one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Run-Qiu Yang , Yu-Sen An , Chao Niu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Keun-Young Kim

We introduce a quantifier of phase-space complexity for discrete-variable (DV) quantum systems. Motivated by a recent framework developed for continuous-variable systems, we construct a complexity measure of quantum states based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Siting Tang , Shunlong Luo , Matteo G. A. Paris

We introduce a quantum version for the statistical complexity measure, in the context of quantum information theory, and use it as a signalling function of quantum order-disorder transitions. We discuss the possibility for such transitions…

Motivated by the recent interest in the criticality of open quantum many-body systems, we study nonlinear sigma models with complexified couplings as a general framework for nonunitary field theory. Applying the perturbative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-29 Kazuki Yamamoto , Kohei Kawabata

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, a prime example of a one-dimensional topologically nontrivial insulator, has been extensively studied in flat space-time. In recent times, many studies have been conducted to understand the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Priyanuj Rajbongshi , Ranjan Modak