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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

Krylov complexity is a measure of operator growth in quantum systems, based on the number of orthogonal basis vectors needed to approximate the time evolution of an operator. In this paper, we study the Krylov complexity of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Cameron Beetar , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J R Van Zyl

We introduce and review a new complexity measure, called `Krylov complexity', which takes its origins in the field of quantum-chaotic dynamics, serving as a canonical measure of operator growth and spreading. Krylov complexity, underpinned…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Eliezer Rabinovici , Adrián Sánchez-Garrido , Ruth Shir , Julian Sonner

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

We point out an interesting connection between the mathematical framework of the Krylov basis, which is used to quantify quantum complexity, and the entanglement entropy in high-energy QCD. In particular, we observe that the cascade…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Pawel Caputa , Krzysztof Kutak

Krylov complexity has recently been proposed as a quantum probe of chaos. The Krylov exponent characterising the exponential growth of Krylov complexity is conjectured to upper-bound the Lyapunov exponent. We compute the Krylov and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-13 Shira Chapman , Saskia Demulder , Damián A. Galante , Sameer U. Sheorey , Osher Shoval

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

A number of recent works have argued that quantum complexity, a well-known concept in computer science that has re-emerged recently in the context of the physics of black holes, may be used as an efficient probe of novel phenomena such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Pawel Caputa , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Sinong Liu , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

Considering the large-$q$ expansion of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the two-stage limit, we compute the Lanczos coefficients, Krylov complexity, and the higher Krylov cumulants in subleading order, along with the $t/q$ effects. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak

Krylov complexity has been proposed as a diagnostic of chaos in non-integrable lattice and quantum mechanical systems, and if the system is chaotic, Krylov complexity grows exponentially with time. However, when Krylov complexity is applied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Takanori Anegawa , Norihiro Iizuka , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We investigate Krylov complexity in open quantum systems using Lindblad master equations for bosonic bath models, with particular emphasis on the Caldeira--Leggett model. Krylov complexity is computed from the moments of the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Sayed Gool , S. Shajidul Haque

Quantifying complexity in quantum systems has witnessed a surge of interest in recent years, with Krylov-based measures such as Krylov complexity ($C_K$) and Spread complexity ($C_S$) gaining prominence. In this study, we investigate their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-10 Pawel Caputa , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Sinong Liu , Juan F. Pedraza , Le-Chen Qu

We investigate the anatomy and complexity of quantum states in Krylov space, in the ergodic and many-body localised (MBL) phases of a disordered, interacting spin chain. The Krylov basis generated by the Hamiltonian from an initial state…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-27 Bikram Pain , David E. Logan , Sthitadhi Roy

Krylov complexity, or K-complexity for short, has recently emerged as a new probe of chaos in quantum systems. It is a measure of operator growth in Krylov space, which conjecturally bounds the operator growth measured by the out of time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Anatoly Dymarsky , Michael Smolkin

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

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

The spreading of quantum states in Krylov space under unitary dynamics provides a natural framework for characterizing quantum complexity. Quantifiers of this spreading, such as the spread complexity and the inverse participation ratio,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Swati Choudhary , Sukrut Mondkar , Ujjwal Sen

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

The complexity of quantum states under dynamical evolution can be investigated by studying the spread with time of the state over a pre-defined basis. It is known that this complexity is minimised by choosing the Krylov basis, thus defining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Amin A. Nizami , Ankit W. Shrestha

In the Wigner-Weyl phase space formulation of quantum mechanics, we analyse the problem of the spreading of an initial state or an initial operator under time evolution when described in terms of the Krylov basis. After constructing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Keun-Young Kim