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The dynamics of quantum systems unfolds within a subspace of the state space or operator space, known as the Krylov space. This review presents the use of Krylov subspace methods to provide an efficient description of quantum evolution and…

Krylov complexity (K-complexity) is a measure of quantum state complexity that minimizes wavefunction spreading across all the possible bases. It serves as a key indicator of operator growth and quantum chaos. In this work, K-complexity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 J. Bharathi Kannan , Sreeram PG , Sanku Paul , S. Harshini Tekur , M. S. Santhanam

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

We investigate Krylov spread complexity for the ground state of two-band Hamiltonians, where the reference state is a generic state on the Bloch sphere. The spread complexity is obtained by using a purely geometric formulation in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rishav Chaudhuri , Ayush Raj , Soham Ray , Sai Satyam Samal

We study quenched dynamics of fully-connected spin models. The system is prepared in a ground state of the initial Hamiltonian and the Hamiltonian is suddenly changed to a different form. We apply the Krylov subspace method to map the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Kazutaka Takahashi

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

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

Under unitary evolution, chaotic quantum systems initialized in simple states rapidly develop high complexity, precluding any efficient classical description. Quantum chaos is traditionally characterized by spectral properties of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Ning Sun , Pengfei Zhang

Understanding the complexity of quantum many-body systems has been attracting much attention recently for its fundamental importance in characterizing complex quantum phases beyond the scope of quantum entanglement. Here, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Wei Xia , Yijia Zhou , Xingze Qiu , Xiaopeng Li

Krylov complexity has emerged as a new probe of operator growth in a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. However, a fundamental issue remains in such studies: the definition of the distance between basis states in Krylov space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang , Qi Zhou

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

In isolated quantum many-body systems periodically driven in time, the asymptotic dynamics at late times can exhibit distinct behavior such as thermalization or dynamical freezing. Understanding the properties of and the convergence towards…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-23 Luke Staszewski , Asmi Haldar , Pieter W. Claeys , Alexander Wietek

Krylov complexity, as a novel measure of operator complexity under Heisenberg evolution, exhibits many interesting universal behaviors and also bounds many other complexity measures. In this work, we study Krylov complexity $\mathcal{K}(t)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Haifeng Tang

We study the statistical properties of Lanczos coefficients over an ensemble of random initial operators generating the Krylov space. We propose two statistical quantities that are important in characterizing the complexity: the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Zhuoran Li , Wei Fan

We investigate the Krylov complexity of Schr\"odinger field theories, focusing on both bosonic and fermionic systems within the grand canonical ensemble that includes a chemical potential. Krylov complexity measures operator growth in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Peng-Zhang He , Hai-Qing Zhang

We investigate signatures of quantum chaos within Ising spin chains subjected to transverse and longitudinal fields, incorporating both local (nearest-neighbor) and non-local (long-range) couplings. While local Ising models may exhibit…

Krylov complexity measures the spread of an evolved state in a natural basis, induced by the generator of the dynamics and the initial state. Here, we study the spread in Hilbert space of the state of an Ising chain subject to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 E. Medina-Guerra , I. V. Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

We investigate phase transitions in a non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with an imaginary chemical potential via Krylov spread complexity and Krylov fidelity. The spread witnesses the $\mathcal{PT}$-transition for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-11 E. Medina-Guerra , I. V. Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

Complex quantum systems -- composed of many, interacting particles -- are intrinsically difficult to model. When a quantum many-body system is subject to disorder, it can undergo transitions to regimes with varying non-ergodic and localized…

We perform a systematic holographic study of Krylov complexity for a wide class of confining quantum field theories. Using the geometric prescription that identifies the time derivative of the complexity with the proper momentum of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Ali Fatemiabhari , Carlos Nunez