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In Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum complexity, the introduction of a suitable geometrical space, based on the Lie group formed by fundamental operators, facilitates the identification of complexity through geodesic distance in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

According to the pioneering work of Nielsen and collaborators, the length of the minimal geodesic in a geometric realization of a suitable operator space provides a measure of the quantum complexity of an operation. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

The unitary dynamics of quantum systems can be modeled as a trajectory on a Riemannian manifold. This theoretical framework naturally yields a purely geometric interpretation of computational complexity for quantum algorithms, a notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Alberto Acevedo , Antonio Falco

Motivated by the recent rapid development of complexity theory applied to quantum mechanical processes we present the complete derivation of Nielsen's complexity of unitaries belonging to the representations of oscillator group. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 K. Andrzejewski , K. Bolonek-Lasoń , P. Kosiński

Computational complexity is a new quantum information concept that may play an important role in holography and in understanding the physics of the black hole interior. We consider quantum computational complexity for $n$ qubits using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-21 Roberto Auzzi , Stefano Baiguera , G. Bruno De Luca , Andrea Legramandi , Giuseppe Nardelli , Nicolò Zenoni

Determining the quantum circuit complexity of a unitary operation is closely related to the problem of finding minimal length paths in a particular curved geometry [Nielsen et al, Science 311, 1133-1135 (2006)]. This paper investigates many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark R. Dowling , Michael A. Nielsen

Recently it has been shown that the complexity of SU($n$) operator is determined by the geodesic length in a bi-invariant Finsler geometry, which is constrained by some symmetries of quantum field theory. It is based on three axioms and one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Run-Qiu Yang , Yu-Sen An , Chao Niu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Keun-Young Kim

Quantum complexity quantifies the difficulty of preparing a state or implementing a unitary transformation with limited resources. Applications range from quantum computation to condensed matter physics and quantum gravity. We seek to…

In physics, two systems that radically differ at short scales can exhibit strikingly similar macroscopic behaviour: they are part of the same long-distance universality class. Here we apply this viewpoint to geometry and initiate a program…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-22 Adam R. Brown , Michael H. Freedman , Henry W. Lin , Leonard Susskind

Quantum groups and non-commutative spaces have been repeatedly utilized in approaches to quantum gravity. They provide a mathematically elegant cut-off, often interpreted as related to the Planck-scale quantum uncertainty in position. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-09 Eugenio Bianchi , Carlo Rovelli

Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum circuit complexity provides a Riemannian framework for quantifying the cost of implementing unitary (closed--system) dynamics. For open dynamics, however, the reduced evolution is described by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Alberto Acevedo , Antonio Falcó

Quantum mechanics is among the most important and successful mathematical model for describing our physical reality. The traditional formulation of quantum mechanics is linear and algebraic. In contrast classical mechanics is a geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Hoshang Heydari

Grothendieck proved that any finite epimorphism of noetherian schemes factors into a finite sequence of effective epimorphisms. We define the complexity of a flat groupoid $R\rightrightarrows X$ with finite stabilizer to be the length of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Matthieu Romagny , David Rydh , Gabriel Zalamansky

As a new step towards defining complexity for quantum field theories, we map Nielsen operator complexity for $SU(N)$ gates to two-dimensional hydrodynamics. We develop a tractable large $N$ limit that leads to regular geometries on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Pablo Basteiro , Johanna Erdmenger , Pascal Fries , Florian Goth , Ioannis Matthaiakakis , René Meyer

We formulate Nielsen's geometric approach to complexity in the context of two dimensional conformal field theories, where series of conformal transformations are interpreted as unitary circuits. We show that the complexity functional can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Pawel Caputa , Javier M. Magan

For any quantum algorithm given by a path in the space of unitary operators we define the computational complexity as the typical computational time associated with the path. This time is defined using a quantum time estimator associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Cesar Gomez

The geodesic complexity of a Riemannian manifold is a numerical isometry invariant that is determined by the structure of its cut loci. In this article we study decompositions of cut loci over whose components the tangent cut loci fiber in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Stephan Mescher , Maximilian Stegemeyer

In physics, Lie groups represent the algebraic structure that describes symmetry transformations of a given system. Then, the descending Lie algebra of those groups are necessarily real. In most cases, the complexification of those Lie…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Tanguy Marsault , Laurent Schoeffel

Based on general and minimal properties of the {\it discrete} circuit complexity, we define the complexity in {\it continuous} systems in a geometrical way. We first show that the Finsler metric naturally emerges in the geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Run-Qiu Yang , Yu-Sen An , Chao Niu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Keun-Young Kim

We study circuit complexity for a free vector field of a $U(1)$ gauge theory in Coulomb gauge, and Gaussian states. We introduce a quantum circuit model with Gaussian states, including reference and target states. Using the Nielsen's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 Amir Moghimnejad , Shahrokh Parvizi
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