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The operator wavefunction provides a fine-grained description of quantum chaos and of the irreversible growth of simple operators into increasingly complex ones. Remarkably, at finite temperature this wavefunction can acquire a phase that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rishik Perugu , Bryce Kobrin , Michael O. Flynn , Thomas Scaffidi

One quantum characterization of a black hole motivated by (local) holography and thermodynamics is that it maximizes thermodynamic entropy for a given surface area. In the context of quantum gravity, this could be more fundamental than the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Yuki Yokokura

The majority of galaxies are known to have supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their core, which have a tremendous gravitational pull on the objects around them. When embedded within extended matter distributions such as prolate, shell-like…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-18 Uditi Nag , Yeasin Ali , Suparna Roychowdhury

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

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of a non-Hermitian SSH model that arises out of the no-click limit of a monitored SSH model in the Krylov space. We find that the saturation timescale of the complexity associated with the spread…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Nilachal Chakrabarti , Neha Nirbhan , Arpan Bhattacharyya

In this work we suggest a simplified "quasi-classical" formalism of the Schwarzschild black hole thermodynamics. We define such small quantum system at Schwarzschild black hole horizon surface whose reduced Compton wavelength equals one…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Vladan Pankovic

We compute the radiation emitted by a particle on the innermost stable circular orbit of a rapidly spinning black hole both (a) analytically, working to leading order in the deviation from extremality and (b) numerically, with a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Samuel E. Gralla , Achilleas P. Porfyriadis , Niels Warburton

We study a precise and computationally tractable notion of operator complexity in holographic quantum theories, including the ensemble dual of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and two-dimensional holographic conformal field theories. This is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Arjun Kar , Lampros Lamprou , Moshe Rozali , James Sully

In this article, we investigate the quantum circuit complexity and entanglement entropy in the recently studied black hole gas framework using the two-mode squeezed states formalism written in arbitrary dimensional spatially flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-03 Kiran Adhikari , Sayantan Choudhury , Satyaki Chowdhury , K. Shirish , Abinash Swain

Building upon recent research in spin systems with non-local interactions, this study investigates operator growth using the Krylov complexity in different non-local versions of the Ising model. We find that the non-locality results in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

We study generalized indicators of sensitivity to initial conditions and orbit complexity in topological dynamical systems. The orbit complexity is a measure of the asymptotic behavior of the information that is necessary to describe the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Stefano Galatolo

We study quantum dynamics generated by time-dependent Hamiltonians in Krylov space, the minimal subspace in which the evolution takes place. We establish a direct link between dynamics in the time-dependent Krylov subspace and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 András Grabarits , E. Medina-Guerra , Adolfo del Campo

We introduce a high dimensional symplectic map, modeling a large system consisting of weakly interacting chaotic subsystems, as a toy model to analyze the interplay between single-particle chaotic dynamics and particles interactions in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-10 Massimo Falcioni , Luigi Palatella , Simone Pigolotti , Lamberto Rondoni , Angelo Vulpiani

The Tsallis-Cirto non-extensive statistics with $\delta=2$ describes the processes of splitting and merging of black holes and their thermodynamics. Here we consider a toy model, which matches this generalized statistics and extends it by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 G. E. Volovik

The quantum genesis of Hawking radiation is a long-standing puzzle in black hole physics. Semi-classically one can argue that the spectrum of radiation emitted by a black hole look very much sparse unlike what is expected from a thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-05 Kinjalk Lochan , Sumanta Chakraborty

We study the evolution of the interior of an evaporating black hole in a simple model of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity with an end-of-the-world (EoW) brane, where evaporation is modeled by entangling the brane's internal states with an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Nicolò Bragagnolo , S. Prem Kumar

Following Hawking, it is usual to mimic the effect of collapse space-time geometry on quantum fields in a semi-classical approximation by imposing suitable boundary conditions at the origin of coordinates, which effectively becomes a moving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Wilczek

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

The phenomenon of black hole thermodynamics raises several deep issues which any proper theory of quantum gravity must confront: to what extent does the inclusion of the back-reaction alter the thermal character of the radiation, how can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Per Kraus

We consider the superconformal quantum mechanics associated to BPS black holes in type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications. This quantum mechanics describes the dynamics of D-branes in the near-horizon attractor geometry of the black hole. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul S. Aspinwall , Alexander Maloney , Aaron Simons