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We investigate the phase transitions from chaotic to nonchaotic dynamics in a quantum spin chain with a local non-Hermitian disorder, which can be realized with a Rydberg atom array setting. As the disorder strength increases, the emergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Yijia Zhou , Wei Xia , Lin Li , Weibin Li

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 calculate the operator complexity for the displacement, squeeze and rotation operators of a quantum harmonic oscillator. The complexity of the time-dependent displacement operator is constant, equal to the magnitude of the coherent state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-12 S. Shajidul Haque , Chandan Jana , Bret Underwood

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of a non-Hermitian SSH model that arises out of the no-click limit of a monitored SSH model in the Krylov space. We find that the saturation timescale of the complexity associated with the spread…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Nilachal Chakrabarti , Neha Nirbhan , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We study Krylov complexity $C_K$ and operator entropy $S_K$ in operator growth. We find that for a variety of systems, including chaotic ones and integrable theories, the two quantities always enjoy a logarithmic relation $S_K\sim…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Zhong-Ying Fan

Dynamical quantum phase transitions, encompassing phenomena like many-body localization transitions and measurement-induced phase transitions, are often characterized and identified through the analysis of quantum entanglement. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Wei Xia , Jie Zou , Xiaopeng Li

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

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

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

We establish a direct correspondence between Krylov and Nielsen complexity by choosing the Krylov basis to be part of the elementary gate set of Nielsen geometry and selecting a Nielsen complexity metric compatible with the Krylov metric.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Ben Craps , Gabriele Pascuzzi , Juan F. Pedraza , Le-Chen Qu , Shan-Ming Ruan

Building on the duality between Krylov complexity and geodesic length in Jackiw-Teitelboim and sine-dilaton gravity, we develop a precise holographic dictionary for quantities in the Krylov subspace of the double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Yichao Fu , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

Krylov complexity and Nielsen complexity are successful approaches to quantifying quantum evolution complexity that have been actively pursued without much contact between the two lines of research. The two quantities are motivated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

Complexity is a fundamental characteristic of states within a quantum system. Its use is however mostly limited to bosonic systems, inhibiting its present applicability to supersymmetric theories. This is also relevant to its application to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Rathindra N. Das , Saskia Demulder , Johanna Erdmenger , Christian Northe

We ask whether Krylov complexity is mutually compatible with the circuit and Nielsen definitions of complexity. We show that the Krylov complexities between three states fail to satisfy the triangle inequality and so cannot be a measure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-20 Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez , Andrew Rolph

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

The inspiration for this theoretical paper comes from recent experiments on a PT-symmetric system of two coupled optical whispering galleries (optical resonators). The optical system can be modeled as a pair of coupled linear oscillators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda

In recent years, there has been growing interest in characterizing the complexity of quantum evolutions of interacting many-body systems. When a time-independent Hamiltonian governs the dynamics, Krylov complexity has emerged as a powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Gastón F. Scialchi , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Carlos Pineda , Diego A. Wisniacki

We investigate and characterize the dynamics of operator growth in irrational two-dimensional conformal field theories. By employing the oscillator realization of the Virasoro algebra and CFT states, we systematically implement the Lanczos…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Pawel Caputa , Shouvik Datta

The complexity of quantum states under dynamical evolution can be investigated by studying the spread with time of the state over a pre-defined basis. It is known that this complexity is minimised by choosing the Krylov basis, thus defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Amin A. Nizami , Ankit W. Shrestha

The concepts of operator size and computational complexity play important roles in the study of quantum chaos and holographic duality because they help characterize the structure of time-evolving Heisenberg operators. It is particularly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 Shao-Kai Jian , Brian Swingle , Zhuo-Yu Xian
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