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We establish a direct connection between spread complexity and quantum circuit complexity by demonstrating that spread complexity emerges as a limiting case of a circuit complexity framework built from two fundamental operations:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Cameron Beetar , Eric L Graef , Jeff Murugan , Horatiu Nastase , Hendrik J R Van Zyl

We demonstrate a precise relation between the rate of complexity of quantum states excited by local operators in two-dimensional conformal field theories and the radial momentum of particles in 3-dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetimes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Pawel Caputa , Bowen Chen , Ross W. McDonald , Joan Simón , Benjamin Strittmatter

We investigate the influence of the vacuum fluctuations of a background electric field over a charged test particle in the presence of a perfectly reflecting flat wall. A switching function connecting different stages of the system is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 V. A. De Lorenci , C. C. H. Ribeiro , M. M. Silva

Recently, the dynamics of quantum systems that involve both unitary evolution and quantum measurements have attracted attention due to the exotic phenomenon of measurement-induced phase transitions. The latter refers to a sudden change in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Ryotaro Suzuki , Jonas Haferkamp , Jens Eisert , Philippe Faist

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum information theory has recently emerged as a flourishing area of research and quantum complexity, one of its powerful measures, is being applied for investigating complex systems in many areas of physics. Its application to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-14 Khushboo Dixit , S. Shajidul Haque , Soebur Razzaque

We calculate the operator complexity for the displacement, squeeze and rotation operators of a quantum harmonic oscillator. The complexity of the time-dependent displacement operator is constant, equal to the magnitude of the coherent state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-12 S. Shajidul Haque , Chandan Jana , Bret Underwood

In this paper, we study the effect of both the electric and the magnetic fields on the rate of complexity growth. Our system is a charged quantum oscillator and over a period of time, we study the maximum dynamic evolution of quantum states…

General Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Reza Pirmoradian , Mohammad Reza Tanhayi

In this paper, we investigate the circuit complexity of a quantum harmonic oscillator subjected to an external magnetic field. Utilizing the Nielsen approach within the thermofield dynamics (TFD) framework, we determine the complexity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 V. Avramov , M. Radomirov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

Observing physical effects of large quantum stress tensor fluctuations requires knowledge of the interactions between the probe and the particles of the underlying quantum fields. The quantum stress tensor operators must first be averaged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-21 Peter Wu , L. H. Ford , Enrico D. Schiappacasse

We propose a measure of quantum state complexity defined by minimizing the spread of the wave-function over all choices of basis. Our measure is controlled by the "survival amplitude" for a state to remain unchanged, and can be efficiently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Vijay Balasubramanian , Pawel Caputa , Javier Magan , Qingyue Wu

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

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

Quantum spread complexity characterizes how a quantum state evolves and becomes distributed over the Hilbert space under unitary dynamics. In this work, we employ a cost function as a quantitative measure of spread complexity. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-17 Abhishek Kumar Jha , Govind Krishna G , Anandbhai Pravinbhai Prajapati , Subhashish Banerjee

This paper discusses two distinct, but related issues in quantum fluctuation effects. The first is the frequency spectrum which can be assigned to one loop quantum processes. The formal spectrum is a flat one, but the finite quantum effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. H. Ford

We relate the probability distribution of the work done on a statistical system under a sudden quench to the Lanczos coefficients corresponding to evolution under the post-quench Hamiltonian. Using the general relation between the moments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Kuntal Pal , Kunal Pal , Ankit Gill , Tapobrata Sarkar

This study discusses the quantum behavior of a particle, which is controlled by fluctuations in the physical space-time (ST) variables, rather than provides a novel interpretation of quantum theory. The fluctuations, i.e., inhomogeneities…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Valery Egorushkin

Measuring bipartite fluctuations of a conserved charge, such as the particle number, is a powerful approach to understanding quantum systems. When the measured region has sharp corners, the bipartite fluctuation receives an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Pok Man Tam , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Jiabin Yu

Interaction in quantum systems can spread initially localized quantum information into the many degrees of freedom of the entire system. Understanding this process, known as quantum scrambling, is the key to resolving various conundrums in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Xiao Mi , Pedram Roushan , Chris Quintana , Salvatore Mandra , Jeffrey Marshall , Charles Neill , Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Juan Atalaya , Ryan Babbush , Joseph C. Bardin , Rami Barends , Andreas Bengtsson , Sergio Boixo , Alexandre Bourassa , Michael Broughton , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Zijun Chen , Benjamin Chiaro , Roberto Collins , William Courtney , Sean Demura , Alan R. Derk , Andrew Dunsworth , Daniel Eppens , Catherine Erickson , Edward Farhi , Austin G. Fowler , Brooks Foxen , Craig Gidney , Marissa Giustina , Jonathan A. Gross , Matthew P. Harrigan , Sean D. Harrington , Jeremy Hilton , Alan Ho , Sabrina Hong , Trent Huang , William J. Huggins , L. B. Ioffe , Sergei V. Isakov , Evan Jeffrey , Zhang Jiang , Cody Jones , Dvir Kafri , Julian Kelly , Seon Kim , Alexei Kitaev , Paul V. Klimov , Alexander N. Korotkov , Fedor Kostritsa , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Erik Lucero , Orion Martin , Jarrod R. McClean , Trevor McCourt , Matt McEwen , Anthony Megrant , Kevin C. Miao , Masoud Mohseni , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Josh Mutus , Ofer Naaman , Matthew Neeley , Michael Newman , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Thomas E. O'Brien , Alex Opremcak , Eric Ostby , Balint Pato , Andre Petukhov , Nicholas Redd , Nicholas C. Rubin , Daniel Sank , Kevin J. Satzinger , Vladimir Shvarts , Doug Strain , Marco Szalay , Matthew D. Trevithick , Benjamin Villalonga , Theodore White , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Adam Zalcman , Hartmut Neven , Igor Aleiner , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Yu Chen

A new general analytical relationship between spread complexity and fidelity of quantum dynamics is established with time-integrated quantities under operator perturbation. This approach diagnoses the degree of quantum ergodicity and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 M. Süzen
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