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In the past few years, there has been considerable activity around a set of quantum bounds on transport coefficients (viscosity) and chaos (Lyapunov exponent), relevant at low temperatures. The interest comes from the fact that Black-Hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Silvia Pappalardi , Jorge Kurchan

One of the fundamental manifestations of classical chaos is exponential sensitivity to initial conditions that is, two trajectories starting from nearly identical initial states diverge exponentially over time. This behavior is quantified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ignacio García-Mata , Diego A. Wisniacki

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…

Thermal interactions are ubiquitous in the cosmos, driving systems toward equilibrium. In this work, we investigate the evolution of thermal states across the early universe, encompassing the inflationary, radiation-dominated (RD), and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Tao Li , Lei-Hua Liu

We study the dynamics of chaos across the phase transition in a 2-coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, with a focus on the unstable "hot wormhole" phase. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we employ two non-equilibrium protocols that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Martí Berenguer , Javier Mas , Juan Santos-Suárez , Alfonso V. Ramallo

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

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

The symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity is a useful tool in studying chaotic properties of systems that are endowed with symmetries. We investigate the conditions under which an invariant operator would have the symmetry-resolved Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Shaliya Kotta , P N Bala Subramanian

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

The deterministic equations describing the dynamics of the atmosphere (and of the climate system) are known to display the property of sensitivity to initial conditions. In the ergodic theory of chaos this property is usually quantified by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-26 Stéphane Vannitsem

The Lyapunov exponent for collective motion is defined in order to characterize chaotic properties of collective motion for large populations of chaotic elements. Numerical computations for this quantity suggest that such collective motion…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoko Nakagawa , Teruhisa S. Komatsu

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

The study of chaos and complexity in non-Hermitian quantum systems poses significant challenges due to the emergence of complex eigenvalues in their spectra. Recently, the singular value decomposition (SVD) method was proposed to address…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-26 Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Xuhao Jiang , Keun-Young Kim , Juan F. Pedraza

In closed quantum systems, Krylov complexity admits a geometric description; operator growth is equivalent to Hamiltonian flow in an emergent phase space whose structure is fixed by the Lanczos coefficients. We show that this picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Mpho Tladi , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

The scaling behavior of the maximal Lyapunov exponent in chaotic systems with time-delayed feedback is investigated. For large delay times it has been shown that the delay-dependence of the exponent allows a distinction between strong and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-15 Thomas Jüngling , Wolfgang Kinzel

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

Classical quasi-integrable systems are known to have Lyapunov times much shorter than their ergodicity time -- the most clear example being the Solar System -- but the situation for their quantum counterparts is less well understood. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Tomer Goldfriend , Jorge Kurchan

Quantum chaos in many-body systems may be characterized by the Lyapunov exponent defined as the exponential growth rate of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC). So far Lyaponov exponents around various quantum critical points (QCP) remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-01 Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

The saturation of a recently proposed universal bound on the Lyapunov exponent has been conjectured to signal the existence of a gravity dual. This saturation occurs in the low temperature limit of the dense Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-02 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

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