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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

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

Quantum complexity, suitably defined, has been suggested as an important probe of late-time dynamics of black holes, particularly in the context of AdS/CFT. A notion of quantum complexity can be effectively captured by quantifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

Krylov complexity is a novel approach to study how an operator spreads over a specific basis. Recently, it has been stated that this quantity has a long-time saturation that depends on the amount of chaos in the system. Since this quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Bernardo L. Español , Diego A. Wisniacki

Solving short and long time dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems is one of the main challenges of both atomic and condensed matter physics. For locally interacting closed systems, the dynamics of local observables can always be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nicolas Loizeau , Berislav Buča , Dries Sels

In this work, we propose a quantum-mechanically measurable basis for the computation of spread complexity. Current literature focuses on computing different powers of the Hamiltonian to construct a basis for the Krylov state space and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Saud Čindrak , Adrian Paschke , Lina Jaurigue , Kathy Lüdge

In this paper, we studied a set of generalised Krylov complexity for operator growth. We demonstrate their universal features at both initial times and long times using half-analytical technique as well as numerical results. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Zhong-Ying Fan

Recently, a novel measure for the complexity of operator growth is proposed based on Lanczos algorithm and Krylov recursion method. We study this Krylov complexity in quantum mechanical systems derived from some well-known local toric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-27 Bao-ning Du , Min-xin Huang

We investigate operator growth in quantum systems with two-dimensional Schr\"odinger group symmetry by studying the Krylov complexity. While feasible for semisimple Lie algebras, cases such as the Schr\"odinger algebra which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Dimitrios Patramanis , Watse Sybesma

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

When a solution to an abstract inverse linear problem on Hilbert space is approximable by finite linear combinations of vectors from the cyclic subspace associated with the datum and with the linear operator of the problem, the solution is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Noe Angelo Caruso , Alessandro Michelangeli

This Thesis explores the notion of Krylov complexity as a probe of quantum chaos and as a candidate for holographic complexity. The first Part is devoted to presenting the fundamental notions required to conduct research in this area.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-08 A. Sánchez-Garrido

We demonstrate a relation between Nielsen's approach towards circuit complexity and Krylov complexity through a particular construction of quantum state space geometry. We start by associating K\"ahler structures on the full projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Arghya Chattopadhyay , Arpita Mitra , Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

The growth of simple operators is essential for the emergence of chaotic dynamics and quantum thermalization. Recent studies have proposed different measures, including the out-of-time-order correlator and Krylov complexity. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Liangyu Chen , Baoyuan Mu , Huajia Wang , Pengfei Zhang

In Hermitian systems, Krylov complexity has emerged as a powerful diagnostic of quantum dynamics, capable of distinguishing chaotic from integrable phases, in agreement with established probes such as spectral statistics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Xuhao Jiang , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

Krylov complexity measures operator growth with respect to a basis, which is adapted to the Heisenberg time evolution. The construction of that basis relies on the Lanczos algorithm, also known as the recursion method. The mathematics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Wolfgang Mück , Yi Yang

In this work, we investigate the Krylov complexity in quantum optical systems subject to time--dependent classical external fields. We focus on various interacting quantum optical models, including a collection of two--level atoms, photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Abhishek Chowdhury , Aryabrat Mahapatra

We study quantum dynamics generated by time-dependent Hamiltonians in Krylov space, the minimal subspace in which the evolution takes place. We establish a direct link between dynamics in the time-dependent Krylov subspace and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 András Grabarits , E. Medina-Guerra , Adolfo del Campo

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 examine the complexity of quasi-static chaotic open quantum systems. As a prototypical example, we analytically compute the Krylov complexity of a slowly leaking hard-sphere gas using Berry's conjecture. We then connect it to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Vyshnav Mohan