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Recently, the concept of spread complexity, Krylov complexity for states, has been introduced as a measure of the complexity and chaoticity of quantum systems. In this paper, we study the spread complexity of the thermofield double state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-27 Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Juan F. Pedraza

We study quantum-to-classical correspondence of the Krylov space for evolutions driven by unitary maps with a classical limit. This entails a proper definition of corresponding quantum and classical operators, inner products and initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Gastón F. Scialchi , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

We study a notion of operator growth known as Krylov complexity in free and interacting massive scalar quantum field theories in $d$-dimensions at finite temperature. We consider the effects of mass, one-loop self-energy due to perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Hugo A. Camargo , Viktor Jahnke , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We investigate Krylov state complexity as a probe of the quantum Mpemba effect in quantum spin chains. For models without global $U(1)$ symmetry, Krylov complexity exhibits clear Mpemba-like crossings, consistent with conventional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Mohsen Alishahiha , Mohammad Javad Vasli

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

The spreading of quantum states in Krylov space under unitary dynamics provides a natural framework for characterizing quantum complexity. Quantifiers of this spreading, such as the spread complexity and the inverse participation ratio,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Swati Choudhary , Sukrut Mondkar , Ujjwal Sen

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

Krylov complexity has recently been proposed as a quantum probe of chaos. The Krylov exponent characterising the exponential growth of Krylov complexity is conjectured to upper-bound the Lyapunov exponent. We compute the Krylov and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-13 Shira Chapman , Saskia Demulder , Damián A. Galante , Sameer U. Sheorey , Osher Shoval

We investigate the complexity of states and operators evolved with the modular Hamiltonian by using the Krylov basis. In the first part, we formulate the problem for states and analyse different examples, including quantum mechanics,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Pawel Caputa , Javier M. Magan , Dimitrios Patramanis , Erik Tonni

In the Wigner-Weyl phase space formulation of quantum mechanics, we analyse the problem of the spreading of an initial state or an initial operator under time evolution when described in terms of the Krylov basis. After constructing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Keun-Young Kim

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

A number of recent works have argued that quantum complexity, a well-known concept in computer science that has re-emerged recently in the context of the physics of black holes, may be used as an efficient probe of novel phenomena such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Pawel Caputa , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Sinong Liu , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We investigate Krylov complexity of the fermion chain operator which consists of multiple Majorana fermions in the double-scaled SYK (DSSYK) model with finite temperature. Using the fact that Krylov complexity is computable from two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-19 Takanori Anegawa , Ryota Watanabe

Considering the large-$q$ expansion of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the two-stage limit, we compute the Lanczos coefficients, Krylov complexity, and the higher Krylov cumulants in subleading order, along with the $t/q$ effects. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak

We present a general framework in which both Krylov state and operator complexities can be put on the same footing. In our formalism, the Krylov complexity is defined in terms of the density matrix of the associated state which, for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Mohsen Alishahiha , Souvik Banerjee

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

In this paper, we study the Krylov complexity ($K$) from the planar/inflationary patch of the de Sitter space using the two mode squeezed state formalism in the presence of an effective field having sound speed $c_s$. From our analysis, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Kiran Adhikari , Sayantan Choudhury

We compute the Krylov Complexity of a light operator $\mathcal{O}_L$ in an eigenstate of a $2d$ CFT at large central charge $c$. The eigenstate corresponds to a primary operator $\mathcal{O}_H$ under the state-operator correspondence. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Arnab Kundu , Vinay Malvimat , Ritam Sinha

We perform a systematic holographic study of Krylov complexity for a wide class of confining quantum field theories. Using the geometric prescription that identifies the time derivative of the complexity with the proper momentum of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Ali Fatemiabhari , Carlos Nunez

We consider the statistics of the results of a measurement of the spreading operator in the Krylov basis generated by the Hamiltonian of a quantum system starting from a specified initial pure state. We first obtain the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Yichao Fu , Keun-Young Kim , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal