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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

Krylov subspace methods are among the most extensively studied early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for estimating ground-state energies of quantum systems. However, the rapid onset of ill-conditioning might make accurate energies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Maria Gabriela Jordão Oliveira , Karl Michael Ziems , Nina Glaser

We study whether a generic isolated quantum system initially set out of equilibrium can be considered as localized close to its initial state. Our approach considers the time evolution in the Krylov basis, which maps the dynamics onto that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Youssef Aziz Alaoui , Bruno Laburthe-Tolra

In a quantum many-body system, autocorrelation functions can determine linear responses nearby equilibrium and quantum dynamics far from equilibrium. In this letter, we bring out the connection between the operator complexity and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-05 Ren Zhang , Hui Zhai

We present experimental results on the eigenfrequency statistics of a superconducting, chaotic microwave billiard containing a rotatable obstacle. Deviations of the spectral fluctuations from predictions based on Gaussian orthogonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Dietz , A. Heine , A. Richter , O. Bohigas , P. Leboeuf

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

Recent works have established universal entanglement properties and demonstrated validity of single-particle eigenstate thermalization in quantum-chaotic quadratic Hamiltonians. However, a common property of all quantum-chaotic quadratic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-15 Iris Ulčakar , Lev Vidmar

The geometry of a billiard boundary fundamentally governs its dynamics, ranging from integrable to mixed and fully chaotic regimes. Bean- and peanut-shaped billiards have varying curvature with both focusing and defocusing walls without a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-07 Pranaya Pratik Das , Tanmayee Patra , Biplab Ganguli

In this work we develop a real-time Schwinger-Keldysh formulation of Krylov dynamics that treats Krylov complexity as an in-in observable generated by a closed time contour path integral. The resulting generating functional exposes an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

We study the growth and saturation of Krylov spread (K-) complexity under random quantum circuits. In Haar-random unitary evolution, we show that, for large system sizes, K-complexity grows linearly before saturating at a late-time value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Himanshu Sahu , Aranya Bhattacharya , Pingal Pratyush Nath

The billiard problem concerns a point particle moving freely in a region of the horizontal plane bounded by a closed curve $\Gamma$, and reflected at each impact with $\Gamma$. The region is called a `billiard', and the reflections are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Peter Lynch

We revisit thermal out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in single-particle quantum systems, focusing on magnetic billiards. Using the stadium billiard as a testbed, we compute the thermal OTOC $C_T(t) = -\langle [x(t), p]^2 \rangle_\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Cameron Beetar , Jeff Murugan

Spread complexity uses the distribution of support of a time-evolving state in the Krylov basis to quantify dispersal across accessible dimensions of a Hilbert space. Here, we describe how variations in initial conditions, the Hamiltonian,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Vijay Balasubramanian , Pawel Caputa , Joan Simón

Chaotic properties of symmetrical two-dimensional stadium-like billiards with elliptical arcs are studied numerically and analytically. For the two-parameter truncated elliptical billiard the existence and linear stability of several…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-13 V. Lopac , A. Simic

Statistical properties of billiards with diffusive boundary scattering are investigated by means of the supersymmetric sigma-model in a formulation appropriate for chaotic ballistic systems. We study level statistics, parametric level…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. M. Blanter , A. D. Mirlin , B. A. Muzykantskii

Krylov complexity is an important dynamical quantity with relevance to the study of operator growth and quantum chaos, and has recently been much studied for various time-independent systems. We initiate the study of K-complexity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Amin A. Nizami , Ankit W. Shrestha

We compare Krylov's state complexity with an information-geometric (IG) measure of complexity for the quantum evolution of two-level systems. Focusing on qubit dynamics on the Bloch sphere, we analyze evolutions generated by stationary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Carlo Cafaro , Emma Clements , Vishnu Vardhan Anuboyina

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

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 design a computational experiment in which a quantum particle tunnels into a billiard of variable shape and scatters out of it through a double-slit opening on the billiard's base. The interference patterns produced by the scattered…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zoran Levnajić , Tomaž Prosen