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Circuit complexity, defined as the minimum circuit size required for implementing a particular Boolean computation, is a foundational concept in computer science. Determining circuit complexity is believed to be a hard computational problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Claudio Chamon , Andrei E. Ruckenstein , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Ran Canetti

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 study circuit complexity for conformal field theory states in arbitrary dimensions. Our circuits start from a primary state and move along a unitary representation of the Lorentzian conformal group. Different choices of distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-04 Nicolas Chagnet , Shira Chapman , Jan de Boer , Claire Zukowski

We address the difference between integrable and chaotic motion in quantum theory as manifested by the complexity of the corresponding evolution operators. Complexity is understood here as the shortest geodesic distance between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ben Craps , Marine De Clerck , Oleg Evnin , Philip Hacker , Maxim Pavlov

We make comments on some shortcomings of the non-unitary-invariant and non-bi-invariant complexity in quantum mechanics/field theory and argue that the unitary-invariant and bi-invariant complexity is still a competitive candidate in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-14 Run-Qiu Yang , Yu-Sen An , Chao Niu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Keun-Young Kim

Krylov subspace methods quantify operator growth in quantum many-body systems through Lanczos coefficients that encode how operators spread under time evolution. Although these diagnostics were originally motivated by questions of chaos and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Rishabh Jha , Heiko Georg Menzler

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

For any quantum algorithm given by a path in the space of unitary operators we define the computational complexity as the typical computational time associated with the path. This time is defined using a quantum time estimator associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Cesar Gomez

Various notions from geometric control theory are used to characterize the behavior of the Markovian master equation for N-level quantum mechanical systems driven by unitary control and to describe the structure of the sets of reachable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Altafini

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

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

It is conjectured that in the geometric formulation of quantum computing, one can study quantum complexity through classical entropy of statistical ensembles established non-relativistically in the group manifold of unitary operators. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-27 Ning Bao , Junyu Liu

This paper is concerned with approximating the dominant left singular vector space of a real matrix $A$ of arbitrary dimension, from block Krylov spaces generated by the matrix $AA^T$ and the block vector $AX$. Two classes of results are…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Petros Drineas , Ilse Ipsen , Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Complex systems are characterized by specific time-dependent interactions among their many constituents. As a consequence they often manifest rich, non-trivial and unexpected behavior. Examples arise both in the physical and non-physical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-21 Yurij Holovatch , Ralph Kenna , Stefan Thurner

Complexity of geometric symmetry for differential operators with mixed homogeniety is examined here. Sharp Sobolev estimates are calculated for the Grushin operator in low dimensions using hyperbolic symmetry and conformal geometry.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William Beckner

A standard approach to model reduction of large-scale higher-order linear dynamical systems is to rewrite the system as an equivalent first-order system and then employ Krylov-subspace techniques for model reduction of first-order systems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Roland W. Freund

We study Krylov construction in periodically driven conformal field theories and their lattice realisations via critical fermions. Two types of driving are considered: a square-wave drive and a continuous sinusoidal drive. Using the Arnoldi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Ankit Gill , Anurag Sarkar

We define circuits given by unitary representations of Lorentzian conformal field theory in 3 and 4 dimensions. Our circuits start from a spinning primary state, allowing us to generalize formulas for the circuit complexity obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Robert de Mello Koch , Minkyoo Kim , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

In this paper, a complexity factor is devised for a non-static cylindrical system in the framework of massive Brans-Dicke theory. The definition of complexity is developed by taking into account the essential physical characteristics (such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-18 M. Sharif , Amal Majid

We introduce a systematic protocol for constructing quantum Hilbert-space-fragmented Hamiltonians, whose Krylov-sector structure, unlike in classically fragmented models, can be fully resolved only in an entangled basis. The protocol takes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Yiqiu Han , Oliver Hart , Alexey Khudorozhkov , Rahul Nandkishore