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We derive the Polyakov-loop thermodynamic potential in the perturbative approach to pure SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. The potential expressed in terms of the Polyakov loop in the fundamental representation corresponds to that of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-01 Chihiro Sasaki , Krzysztof Redlich

In this work, we investigate the impact of conserved charges on the dynamics of spread complexity of quantum states. Building on the notion of symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity [1], we extend the framework to general quantum states and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Pawel Caputa , Giuseppe Di Giulio , Tran Quang Loc

We study S-duality in N=4 super Yang-Mills with an arbitrary gauge group by determining the operator product expansion of the circular BPS Wilson and 't Hooft loop operators. The coefficients in the expansion of an 't Hooft loop operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-08 Jaume Gomis , Takuya Okuda

We study the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) in a zero temperature two dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) under evolution by a Liouvillian composed of the Virasoro generators. A bound was conjectured in arXiv:1812.08657 on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Surbhi Khetrapal

The Krylov subspace methods, being one category of the most important classical numerical methods for linear algebra problems, can be much more powerful when generalised to quantum computing. However, quantum Krylov subspace algorithms are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Zongkang Zhang , Anbang Wang , Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

We study a special class of observables in $\mathcal N=2$ and $\mathcal N=4$ superconformal Yang-Mills theories which, for an arbitrary 't Hooft coupling constant $\lambda$, admit representation as determinants of certain semi-infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Zoltan Bajnok , Bercel Boldis , Gregory P. Korchemsky

Krylov complexity, a quantum complexity measure which uniquely characterizes the spread of a quantum state or an operator, has recently been studied in the context of quantum chaos. However, the definitiveness of this measure as a chaos…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sreeram PG , J. Bharathi Kannan , Ranjan Modak , S. Aravinda

We investigate the spectral flows of the hermitian Wilson-Dirac operator in the fundamental and adjoint representations on two ensembles of pure SU(2) gauge field configurations at the same physical volume. We find several background gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert G. Edwards , Urs M. Heller , Rajamani Narayanan

We study operator spreading in many-body quantum systems by its potential to generate an informationally complete measurement record in quantum tomography. We adopt continuous weak measurement tomography for this purpose. We generate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Abinash Sahu , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Bishal Kumar Das , Vaibhav Madhok

Exponential growth in the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is an important potential signature of quantum chaos. The OTOC is quite simple to calculate for squeezed states, whose applications are frequently found in quantum optics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

Scrambling of information in a quantum many-body system, quantified by the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC), is a key manifestation of quantum chaos. A regime of exponential growth in the OTOC, characterized by a Lyapunov exponent, has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Anna Keselman , Laimei Nie , Erez Berg

Exponential growth of thermal out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is an indicator of a possible gravity dual, and a simple toy quantum model showing the growth is being looked for. We consider a system of two harmonic oscillators coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Tetsuya Akutagawa , Koji Hashimoto , Toshiaki Sasaki , Ryota Watanabe

In Yang-Mills theory, the cumulants of the na\"ive lattice discretization of the topological charge evolved with the Yang-Mills gradient flow coincide, in the continuum limit, with those of the universal definition. We sketch in these…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-26 Marco Cè

We compute the coefficients of an infinite family of chiral primary operators in the local operator expansion of a circular Wilson loop in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The computation sums all planar rainbow Feynman graphs. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gordon W. Semenoff , K. Zarembo

Lattice Yang-Mills theories at finite temperature can be mapped onto effective 3d spin systems, thus facilitating their numerical investigation. Using strong-coupling expansions we derive effective actions for Polyakov loops in the $SU(2)$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-03-31 Jens Langelage , Stefano Lottini , Owe Philipsen

A strong coupling expansion of the SU(2) Yang-Mills quantum Hamiltonian is carried out in the form of an expansion in the number of spatial derivatives, using the symmetric gauge \epsilon_{ijk} A_{jk}=0. Introducing an infinite lattice with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-02 Hans-Peter Pavel

We study the topological charge distribution of the SU(3) Yang--Mills theory with high precision in order to be able to detect deviations from Gaussianity. The computation is carried out on the lattice with high statistics Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-12 Marco Cè , Cristian Consonni , Georg P. Engel , Leonardo Giusti

We show that the large N partition functions and Wilson loop observables of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theories admit a universal functional form irrespective of the gauge group. We demonstrate that U(N) QCD_2 undergoes a large N,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael Crescimanno , Howard J. Schnitzer

We consider Yang-Mills theory with the coupling constant and theta angle determined by the vacuum expectation values of a dynamical (complex) dilaton field. We discuss the tree-level N-gluon MHV scattering amplitudes in the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We study the dynamical properties of the canonical ordered phase of the Hamiltonian mean-field (HMF) model, in which $N$ particles, globally-coupled via pairwise attractive interactions, form a rotating cluster. Using a combination of…