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We show that the characteristic function of the probability distribution associated with the change of an observable in a two-point measurement protocol with a perturbation can be written as an auto-correlation function between an initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Ankit Gill , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

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

We apply a notion of quantum complexity, called "Krylov complexity", to study the evolution of systems from integrability to chaos. For this purpose we investigate the integrable XXZ spin chain, enriched with an integrability breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

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

Commonly, the notion of "quantum chaos'' refers to the fast scrambling of information throughout complex quantum systems undergoing unitary evolution. Motivated by the Krylov complexity and the operator growth hypothesis, we demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Eoin Carolan , Anthony Kiely , Steve Campbell , Sebastian Deffner

We explore spread and spectral complexity in quantum systems that exhibit a transition from integrability to chaos, namely the mixed-field Ising model and the next-to-nearest-neighbor deformation of the Heisenberg XXZ spin chain. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Hugo A. Camargo , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Viktor Jahnke , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

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

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

We investigate Krylov spread complexity for the ground state of two-band Hamiltonians, where the reference state is a generic state on the Bloch sphere. The spread complexity is obtained by using a purely geometric formulation in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rishav Chaudhuri , Ayush Raj , Soham Ray , Sai Satyam Samal

Recently, Krylov complexity was proposed as a measure of complexity and chaoticity of quantum systems. We consider the stadium billiard as a typical example of the quantum mechanical system obtained by quantizing a classically chaotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Koji Hashimoto , Keiju Murata , Norihiro Tanahashi , Ryota Watanabe

Krylov complexity is an attractive measure for the rate at which quantum operators spread in the space of all possible operators under dynamical evolution. One expects that its late-time plateau would distinguish between integrable and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

We study operator spreading in many-body quantum systems by its potential to generate an informationally complete measurement record in quantum tomography. We adopt continuous weak measurement tomography for this purpose. We generate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Abinash Sahu , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Bishal Kumar Das , Vaibhav Madhok

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

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

Scrambling is a key concept in the analysis of nonequilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems. Most studies focus on its characterization via out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs), particularly through the early-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , Karthik Chinni , Philip Daniel Blocher , Pablo M. Poggi

This paper investigates the notion of Krylov complexity, a measure of operator growth, within the framework of 1-matrix quantum mechanics (1-MQM). Krylov complexity quantifies how an operator evolves over time by expanding it in a series of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Niloofar Vardian

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

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 investigate the spread complexity of a generic two-level subsystem of a larger system to analyze the influence of energy level statistics, comparing chaotic and integrable systems. Initially focusing on the nearest-neighbor level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Niloofar Vardian

We use the spread complexity of a time evolved state after a sudden quantum quench in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model prepared in the ground state as a probe of quantum phase transition when the system is quenched towards the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Mir Afrasiar , Jaydeep Kumar Basak , Bidyut Dey , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal