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We study Krylov complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac field theories with a generic dynamical critical exponent $z$. By computing the Lanczos coefficients for massless and massive cases, we analyze the growth and saturation behavior of Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Hamid R. Imani , Komeil Babaei Velni , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar

In semi-classical systems, the exponential growth of the out-of-timeorder correlator (OTOC) is believed to be the hallmark of quantum chaos. However,on several occasions, it has been argued that, even in integrable systems, OTOC can grow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Xiangyu Cao , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak

We study Krylov complexity in various models of quantum field theory: free massive bosons and fermions on flat space and on spheres, holographic models, and lattice models with the UV-cutoff. In certain cases we find asymptotic behavior of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Alexander Avdoshkin , Anatoly Dymarsky , Michael Smolkin

We extend the concept of Krylov complexity to include general unitary evolutions involving multiple generators. This generalization enables us to formulate a framework for generalized Krylov complexity, which serves as a measure of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Niloofar Vardian

Recently, a novel measure for the complexity of operator growth is proposed based on Lanczos algorithm and Krylov recursion method. We study this Krylov complexity in quantum mechanical systems derived from some well-known local toric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-27 Bao-ning Du , Min-xin Huang

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

We study the growth and saturation of Krylov spread (K-) complexity under random quantum circuits. In Haar-random unitary evolution, we show that, for large system sizes, K-complexity grows linearly before saturating at a late-time value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Himanshu Sahu , Aranya Bhattacharya , Pingal Pratyush Nath

The dynamic region of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) serves as a powerful indicator of chaos in classical and semiclassical systems, capturing the characteristic exponential growth. In contrast, this signature fails to appear in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Rohit Kumar Shukla , Gaurav Rudra Malik , S. Aravinda , Sunil Kumar Mishra

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

Random neural networks are dynamical descriptions of randomly interconnected neural units. These show a phase transition to chaos as a disorder parameter is increased. The microscopic mechanisms underlying this phase transition are unknown,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-18 Gilles Wainrib , Jonathan Touboul

In this work we present analytical and numerical evidences that classical integrable models possessing infinitely many degrees of freedom unexpectedly exhibit some features that are typical of chaotic systems. By studying how the conserved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Stefano Negro , Fedor K. Popov , Jacob Sonnenschein

The quantum dynamics of a complex system can be efficiently described in Krylov space, the minimal subspace in which the dynamics unfolds. We apply the Krylov subspace method for Hamiltonian deformations, which provides a systematic way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Kazutaka Takahashi , Pratik Nandy , Adolfo del Campo

In this work, we collect data from runs of Krylov subspace methods and pipelined Krylov algorithms in an effort to understand and model the impact of machine noise and other sources of variability on performance. We find large variability…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Hannah Morgan , Patrick Sanan , Matthew G. Knepley , Richard Tran Mills

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

Weakly perturbed integrable many-body systems are typically chaotic, and thermal at late times. However, there are distinct relationships between the timescales for thermalization and chaos. The typical relationship is confined chaos: when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-19 Hyeongjin Kim , Robin Schäfer , David M. Long , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Anushya Chandran

This paper summarises a numerical investigation of the statistical properties of orbits evolved in `frozen,' time-independent N-body realisations of smooth, time-independent density distributions, allowing for 10^(2.5)<N<10^(5.5). Two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Henry E. Kandrup , Ioannis V. Sideris

Fast scrambling, quantified by the exponential initial growth of Out-of-Time-Ordered-Correlators (OTOCs), is the ability to efficiently spread quantum correlations among the degrees of freedom of interacting systems, and constitutes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Felix Meier , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Daniel Waltner , Thomas Guhr

The presence of chaos in classical Hamiltonian systems is witnessed by its maximal Lyapunov exponent, that quantifies the instability of motion through the exponential growth of indicators such as the trace of the stability matrix or the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Thomas R. Michel , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Peter Schlagheck

We investigate the complexity of states and operators evolved with the modular Hamiltonian by using the Krylov basis. In the first part, we formulate the problem for states and analyse different examples, including quantum mechanics,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Pawel Caputa , Javier M. Magan , Dimitrios Patramanis , Erik Tonni

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