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Defining complexity in quantum field theory is a difficult task, and the main challenge concerns going beyond free models and associated Gaussian states and operations. One take on this issue is to consider conformal field theories in 1+1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Mario Flory , Michal P. Heller

We study the quantum phase transition of a N two-level atomic ensemble interacting with an optical degenerate parametric process, which can be described by the finite size Dicke Hamiltonian plus counter-rotating and quadratic field terms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-02 B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , Ray-Kuang Lee

Topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a powerful tool to describe homologies, which normally involve complexes and a variety of maps/morphisms, what makes a functional integration approach with a sum over a single kind of maps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Dmitry Galakhov , Elena Lanina , Alexei Morozov

We discuss the structure of 2D conformal field theories (CFT) at central charge c=0 describing critical disordered systems, polymers and percolation. We construct a novel extension of the c=0 Virasoro algebra, characterized by a number b…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

Quantum field theories (QFT's) on noncommutative spacetimes are currently under intensive study. Usually such theories have world sheet noncommutativity. In the present work, instead, we study QFT's with commutative world sheet and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. P. Balachandran , A. R. Queiroz , A. M. Marques , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho

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

We study information scrambling -- a spread of initially localized quantum information into the system's many degree of freedom -- in discrete-time quantum walks. We consider out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) and K-complexity as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Himanshu Sahu

We study a $\mathcal PT$-symmetric scalar Euclidean field theory with a complex action, using both theoretical analysis and lattice simulations. This model has a rich phase structure that exhibits pattern formation in the critical region.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-02-02 Moses A. Schindler , Stella T. Schindler , Leandro Medina , Michael C. Ogilvie

We study 2d Ising Field Theory (IFT) in the low-temperature phase in lightcone quantization, and show that integrating out zero modes generates a very compact form for the effective lightcone interaction that depends on the finite volume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-11 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Emanuel Katz , Yuan Xin

We utilize the recent connection between the high energy limit of the double-scaled SYK model and two-dimensional de Sitter solutions of sine dilaton gravity to identify the length of a family of geodesics spanned between future and past…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Michal P. Heller , Fabio Ori , Jacopo Papalini , Tim Schuhmann , Meng-Ting Wang

The simplest statistical-mechanical model of crystalline formation (or alloy formation) that includes electronic degrees of freedom is solved exactly in the limit of large spatial dimensions and infinite interaction strength. The solutions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. K. Freericks , Ch. Gruber , N. Macris

We study the process of relaxation back to thermal equilibrium in $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory at finite temperature. When the size of the system is much larger than the inverse temperature, perturbations decay exponentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Danny Birmingham , Ivo Sachs , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We study operator entanglement measures of the unitary evolution operators of (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), aiming to uncover their scrambling and chaotic behaviors. In particular, we compute the bi-partite and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Laimei Nie , Masahiro Nozaki , Shinsei Ryu , Mao Tian Tan

We compute the quantum circuit complexity of the evolution of scalar curvature perturbations on expanding backgrounds, using the language of squeezed vacuum states. In particular, we construct a simple cosmological model consisting of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-22 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saurya Das , S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

In an isolated system, the time evolution of a given observable in the Heisenberg picture can be efficiently represented in Krylov space. In this representation, an initial operator becomes increasingly complex as time goes by, a feature…

In numerical computations of response properties of electronic systems, the standard model is Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT). Here we investigate the mathematical status of the simplest class of excitations in KS-DFT,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Gero Friesecke , Benedikt Graswald

We study the map between two descriptions of the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of conformal field theory (CFT): One is the defining description as a deformation of CFT by the $T\bar{T}$-operator. The other is an alternative description as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-14 Shinji Hirano , Masaki Shigemori

We investigate how a thermodynamical first-order phase transition affects the dynamical chaotic behaviour of a given model. To this effect, we analyze the model of Berkooz, Brukner, Jia and Mamroud that interpolates between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez , Rathindra Nath Das , Johanna Erdmenger , Zhuo-Yu Xian

In two dimensional conformal field theories the limit of large central charge plays the role of a semi-classical limit. Certain universal observables, such as conformal blocks involving the exchange of the identity operator, can be expanded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney , Viraj Meruliya

A previously proposed non-canonical coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT)/Hartree-Fock (HF) treatment for spin-orbit coupling is here generalized to infinite periodic systems. The scalar-relativistic periodic…