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The time evolution of entanglement tracks how information propagates in interacting quantum systems. We study entanglement entropy in CFT$_2$ with a time-dependent Hamiltonian. We perturb by operators with time-dependent source functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Allic Sivaramakrishnan

Krylov complexity has emerged as a new probe of operator growth in a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. However, a fundamental issue remains in such studies: the definition of the distance between basis states in Krylov space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang , Qi Zhou

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

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

We study the unitary time evolution of the entropy of entanglement of a one-dimensional system between the degrees of freedom in an interval of length l and its complement, starting from a pure state which is not an eigenstate of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

We use complexity theory to rigorously investigate the difficulty of classically simulating evolution under many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians. Using the defining feature that MBL systems have a complete set of quasilocal integrals of…

We present a framework for investigating wave function spreading in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum systems using spread complexity and spread entropy. We consider a tight-binding chain with complex on-site potentials at the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-07 Aranya Bhattacharya , Rathindra Nath Das , Bidyut Dey , Johanna Erdmenger

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 complexity provides a powerful framework for characterizing the dynamical evolution of quantum systems through the spreading of states in Krylov space. The motivation for this is rooted in the optimality of the Krylov basis for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Saud Čindrak , Kathy Lüdge

The exponential speedups promised by Hamiltonian simulation on a quantum computer depends crucially on structure in both the Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$, and the quantum circuit $\hat{U}$ that encodes its description. In the quest to better…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

We review results about entanglement (or modular) Hamiltonians of quantum many-body systems in field theory and statistical mechanics models, as well as recent applications in the context of quantum information and quantum simulation.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-18 M. Dalmonte , V. Eisler , M. Falconi , B. Vermersch

We investigate the Krylov complexity of thermofield double states in systems with mixed phase space, uncovering a direct correlation with the Brody distribution, which interpolates between Poisson and Wigner statistics. Our analysis spans…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Juan F. Pedraza

We consider Arnoldi like processes to obtain symplectic subspaces for Hamiltonian systems. Large systems are locally approximated by ones living in low dimensional subspaces; we especially consider Krylov subspaces and some extensions. This…

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We considered the transfer of continuous-variable entangled states in coupled oscillator chains embedded in a generic environment. We demonstrate high-fidelity transfer via optimal control in two configurations - a linear chain and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Da-Wei Luo , Edward Yu , Ting Yu

Krylov complexity (K-complexity) is a measure of quantum state complexity that minimizes wavefunction spreading across all the possible bases. It serves as a key indicator of operator growth and quantum chaos. In this work, K-complexity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 J. Bharathi Kannan , Sreeram PG , Sanku Paul , S. Harshini Tekur , M. S. Santhanam

Quantum Krylov subspace methods can extract ground and excited states by diagonalizing the Hamiltonian in a compact variational space. In practice, these spaces are almost always generated by real or imaginary time evolution, forcing a…

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In high-energy physics, confinement denotes the tendency of fundamental particles to remain bound together, preventing their observation as free, isolated entities. Interestingly, analogous confinement behavior emerges in certain condensed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-20 Xuhao Jiang , Jad C. Halimeh , N. S. Srivatsa

Krylov complexity has recently gained attention where the growth of operator complexity in time is measured in terms of the off-diagonal operator Lanczos coefficients. The operator Lanczos algorithm reduces the problem of complexity growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Heiko Georg Menzler , Rishabh Jha

A new general analytical relationship between spread complexity and fidelity of quantum dynamics is established with time-integrated quantities under operator perturbation. This approach diagnoses the degree of quantum ergodicity and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 M. Süzen