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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

In quantum many-body systems, time-evolved states typically remain confined to a smaller region of the Hilbert space known as the $\textit{Krylov subspace}$. The time evolution can be mapped onto a one-dimensional problem of a particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Hugo A. Camargo , Yichao Fu , Viktor Jahnke , Keun-Young Kim , Kuntal Pal

Heisenberg time evolution under a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian $H$ transforms an initially simple operator into an increasingly complex one, as it spreads over Hilbert space. Krylov complexity, or `K-complexity', quantifies this growth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

Krylov complexity is a novel measure of operator complexity that exhibits universal behavior and bounds a large class of other measures. In this letter, we generalize Krylov complexity from a closed system to an open system coupled to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-11 Chang Liu , Haifeng Tang , Hui Zhai

We study the statistical properties of the spread complexity in the Krylov space of quantum systems driven across a quantum phase transition. Using the diabatic Magnus expansion, we map the evolution to an effective one-dimensional hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 András Grabarits , Adolfo del Campo

The growth of simple operators is essential for the emergence of chaotic dynamics and quantum thermalization. Recent studies have proposed different measures, including the out-of-time-order correlator and Krylov complexity. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Liangyu Chen , Baoyuan Mu , Huajia Wang , Pengfei Zhang

Krylov subspace methods are among the most extensively studied early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for estimating ground-state energies of quantum systems. However, the rapid onset of ill-conditioning might make accurate energies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Maria Gabriela Jordão Oliveira , Karl Michael Ziems , Nina Glaser

The operator wavefunction provides a fine-grained description of quantum chaos and of the irreversible growth of simple operators into increasingly complex ones. Remarkably, at finite temperature this wavefunction can acquire a phase that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rishik Perugu , Bryce Kobrin , Michael O. Flynn , Thomas Scaffidi

We analyze the properties of Krylov state complexity in qubit dynamics, considering a single qubit and a qubit pair. A geometrical picture of the Krylov complexity is discussed for the single-qubit case, whereas it becomes non-trivial for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Siddharth Seetharaman , Chetanya Singh , Rejish Nath

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

In this work, we propose a quantum-mechanically measurable basis for the computation of spread complexity. Current literature focuses on computing different powers of the Hamiltonian to construct a basis for the Krylov state space and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Saud Čindrak , Adrian Paschke , Lina Jaurigue , Kathy Lüdge

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

Given the recent advances in quantum technology, the complexity of quantum states is an important notion. The idea of the Krylov spread complexity has come into focus recently with the goal of capturing this in a quantitative way. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Bhilahari Jeevanesan

We demonstrate that time-evolved operators can construct a Krylov space to compute Operator complexity and introduce Krylov observability as a measure of effective phase space dimension in quantum systems. We test Krylov observability in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Saud Čindrak , Kathy Lüdge , Lina Jaurigue

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 compare Krylov's state complexity with an information-geometric (IG) measure of complexity for the quantum evolution of two-level systems. Focusing on qubit dynamics on the Bloch sphere, we analyze evolutions generated by stationary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Carlo Cafaro , Emma Clements , Vishnu Vardhan Anuboyina

Simulating quantum systems is one of the most promising tasks where quantum computing can potentially outperform classical computing. However, the robustness needed for reliable simulations of medium to large systems is beyond the reach of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Noah Berthusen , Faisal Alam , Yu Zhang

Strongly interacting quantum many-body systems are expected to thermalize, however, some evade thermalization due to symmetries. Quantum synchronization provides one such example of ergodicity breaking, but previous studies have focused on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-13 Nicolas Loizeau , Berislav Buča

Krylov complexity is considered to provide a measure of the growth of operators evolving under Hamiltonian dynamics. The main strategy is the analysis of the structure of Krylov subspace $\mathcal{K}_M(\mathcal{H},\eta)$ spanned by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ryu Sasaki

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