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We study a notion of operator growth known as Krylov complexity in free and interacting massive scalar quantum field theories in $d$-dimensions at finite temperature. We consider the effects of mass, one-loop self-energy due to perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Hugo A. Camargo , Viktor Jahnke , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

Krylov complexity has been proposed as a diagnostic of chaos in non-integrable lattice and quantum mechanical systems, and if the system is chaotic, Krylov complexity grows exponentially with time. However, when Krylov complexity is applied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Takanori Anegawa , Norihiro Iizuka , Mitsuhiro Nishida

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 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

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

Investigating the time evolution of complexity in quantum systems entails evaluating the spreading of the system's state across a defined basis in its corresponding Hilbert space. Recently, the Krylov basis has been identified as the one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Pedro H. S. Bento , Adolfo del Campo , Lucas C. Céleri

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

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

Recently, the out-of-time-ordered correlator(OTOC) and Krylov complexity have been studied actively as a measure of operator growth. OTOC is known to exhibit exponential growth in chaotic systems, which was confirmed in many previous works.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Seungjoo Baek

In this work, we explore in detail, the time evolution of Krylov complexity. We demonstrate, through analytical computations, that in finite many-body systems, while ramp and plateau are two generic features of Krylov complexity, the manner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Mohsen Alishahiha , Souvik Banerjee , Mohammad Javad Vasli

In the study of quantum chaos diagnostics, considerable attention has been attributed to the Krylov complexity and spectrum form factor (SFF) for systems at infinite temperature. These investigations have unveiled universal properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-19 Chengming Tan , Zhiyang Wei , Ren Zhang

Building on the duality between Krylov complexity and geodesic length in Jackiw-Teitelboim and sine-dilaton gravity, we develop a precise holographic dictionary for quantities in the Krylov subspace of the double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Yichao Fu , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

In semi-classical systems, the exponential growth of the out-of-timeorder correlator (OTOC) is believed to be the hallmark of quantum chaos. However,on several occasions, it has been argued that, even in integrable systems, OTOC can grow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Xiangyu Cao , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak

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

We investigate the relationship between Krylov complexity and operator quantum speed limits (OQSLs) of the complexity operator and level repulsion in random/integrable matrices and many-body systems. An enhanced level-repulsion corresponds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Ankit Gill , Tapobrata Sarkar

The Lanczos algorithm offers a framework for constructing wave functions in closed and open quantum systems from their Hamiltonians. Since the early universe is inherently an open system, we employ this algorithm to investigate Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Ke-Hong Zhai , Lei-Hua Liu

The IP matrix model is a simple large $N$ quantum mechanical model made up of an adjoint harmonic oscillator plus a fundamental harmonic oscillator. It is a model introduced previously as a toy model of the gauge theory dual of an AdS black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Norihiro Iizuka , Mitsuhiro Nishida

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

We introduce and review a new complexity measure, called `Krylov complexity', which takes its origins in the field of quantum-chaotic dynamics, serving as a canonical measure of operator growth and spreading. Krylov complexity, underpinned…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Eliezer Rabinovici , Adrián Sánchez-Garrido , Ruth Shir , Julian Sonner

In this work, we have systematically investigated the Krylov complexity of curvature perturbation for the modified dispersion relation in inflation, using the algorithm in closed system and open system. Our analysis could be applied to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Tao Li , Lei-Hua Liu