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We investigate various aspects of the Lanczos coefficients in a family of free Lifshitz scalar theories, characterized by their integer dynamical exponent, at finite temperature. In this non-relativistic setup, we examine the effects of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 M. J. Vasli , K. Babaei Velni , M. R. Mohammadi Mozaffar , A. Mollabashi , M. Alishahiha

We compute the rate of growth of operator size in matrix models by probing the Lin-Maldacena class of geometries with classical probes. We consider massive point particle probes whose proper momentum equals the size of the gauge invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Dibakar Roychowdhury

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

In this paper we study the notion of complexity under time evolution in chaotic quantum systems with holographic duals. Continuing on from our previous work, we turn our attention to the issue of Krylov complexity upon the insertion of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-10 Marco Ambrosini , Eliezer Rabinovici , Adrián Sánchez-Garrido , Ruth Shir , Julian Sonner

Investigating the time evolution of complexity in quantum systems entails evaluating the spreading of the system's state across a defined basis in its corresponding Hilbert space. Recently, the Krylov basis has been identified as the one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Pedro H. S. Bento , Adolfo del Campo , Lucas C. Céleri

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

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 develop a geometric approach to operator growth and Krylov complexity in many-body quantum systems governed by symmetries. We start by showing a direct link between a unitary evolution with the Liouvillian and the displacement operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-05 Pawel Caputa , Javier M. Magan , Dimitrios Patramanis

We study Krylov complexity in Schr\"odinger field theory in the grand canonical ensemble with chemical potential $\mu$, with an emphasis on the qualitatively new features that arise for $\mu>0$. In this regime the fermionic Wightman power…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Peng-Zhang He , Lei-Hua Liu , Hai-Qing Zhang , Qing-Quan Jiang

Building upon recent research in spin systems with non-local interactions, this study investigates operator growth using the Krylov complexity in different non-local versions of the Ising model. We find that the non-locality results in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

Krylov complexity measures operator growth with respect to a basis, which is adapted to the Heisenberg time evolution. The construction of that basis relies on the Lanczos algorithm, also known as the recursion method. The mathematics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Wolfgang Mück , Yi Yang

The complexity of quantum evolutions can be understood by examining their dispersion in a chosen basis. Recent research has stressed the fact that the Krylov basis is particularly adept at minimizing this dispersion [V. Balasubramanian et…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Gastón F. Scialchi , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

Many quantum gravitational frameworks, such as DBI inflation, k-essence, and effective field theories obtained by integrating out heavy modes, can lead to a non-trivial sound speed. Meanwhile, our universe can be described as an open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Shi-Cheng Liu , Lei-Hua Liu , Bichu Li , Hai-Qing Zhang , Peng-Zhang He

We propose a measure of quantum state complexity defined by minimizing the spread of the wave-function over all choices of basis. Our measure is controlled by the "survival amplitude" for a state to remain unchanged, and can be efficiently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Vijay Balasubramanian , Pawel Caputa , Javier Magan , Qingyue Wu

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 investigate many-body dynamics where the evolution is governed by unitary circuits through the lens of `Krylov complexity', a recently proposed measure of complexity and quantum chaos. We extend the formalism of Krylov complexity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Philippe Suchsland , Roderich Moessner , Pieter W. Claeys

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

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

Krylov methods have reappeared recently, connecting physically sensible notions of complexity with quantum chaos and quantum gravity. In these developments, the Hamiltonian and the Liouvillian are tridiagonalized so that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-14 Tran Quang Loc

Krylov complexity, a quantum complexity measure which uniquely characterizes the spread of a quantum state or an operator, has recently been studied in the context of quantum chaos. However, the definitiveness of this measure as a chaos…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sreeram PG , J. Bharathi Kannan , Ranjan Modak , S. Aravinda