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In this paper and its sequel, we study non-equilibrium dynamics in driven 1+1D conformal field theories (CFTs) with periodic, quasi-periodic, and random driving. We study a soluble family of drives in which the Hamiltonian only involves the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-19 Xueda Wen , Ruihua Fan , Ashvin Vishwanath , Yingfei Gu

In this study, we analyze Krylov Complexity in two-dimensional conformal field theories subjected to deformed SL$(2,\mathbb{R})$ Hamiltonians. In the vacuum state, we find that the K-complexity exhibits a universal phase structure. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-27 Vinay Malvimat , Somnath Porey , Baishali Roy

In this sequel (to [Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 023044(2021)], arXiv:2006.10072), we study randomly driven $(1+1)$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), a family of quantum many-body systems with soluble non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-01 Xueda Wen , Yingfei Gu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruihua Fan

In this work, we study analytically the phase transitions in quasi-periodically driven one dimensional quantum critical systems that are described by conformal field theories (CFTs). The phase diagrams and phase transitions can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-13 Jiyuan Fang , Qi Zhou , Xueda Wen

Krylov complexity is an important dynamical quantity with relevance to the study of operator growth and quantum chaos, and has recently been much studied for various time-independent systems. We initiate the study of K-complexity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Amin A. Nizami , Ankit W. Shrestha

We study the properties {of a conformal field theory} (CFT) driven periodically with a continuous protocol characterized by a frequency $\omega_D$. Such a drive, in contrast to its discrete counterparts (such as square pulses or periodic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-11 Diptarka Das , Roopayan Ghosh , Krishnendu Sengupta

In this work, we study non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet conformal field theories (CFTs) in 1+1D, in which the driving Hamiltonian involves the energy-momentum density spatially modulated by an arbitrary smooth function. This generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Ruihua Fan , Yingfei Gu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xueda Wen

We study the heating dynamics of a generic one dimensional critical system when driven quasiperiodically. Specifically, we consider a Fibonacci drive sequence comprising the Hamiltonian of uniform conformal field theory (CFT) describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 Bastien Lapierre , Kenny Choo , Apoorv Tiwari , Clément Tauber , Titus Neupert , Ramasubramanian Chitra

Emission and absorption of energy are fundamental aspects of non-equilibrium dynamics. The heating induced by driving a many-body system is perhaps the most straightforward diagnostic of the process of equilibration, or the lack thereof.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Liang-Hong Mo , Roderich Moessner , Hongzheng Zhao

Conformal field theories (CFT) play an important role in quantum field theories as they allow for exact studies that are hard to access without the conformal symmetries in place. A remarkable recent development is the application of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-17 Malthe Andersen , Frederik Nørfjand , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

We study Krylov (spread) complexity in strongly coupled six-dimensional ${\cal N}=(1,0)$ superconformal field theories with holographic duals in massive type IIA supergravity. Extending recent holographic proposals relating Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Ali Fatemiabhari , Carlos Nunez , Ricardo T. Santamaria

Given a $generic$ two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT), we propose an analytically solvable setup to study the Floquet dynamics of the CFT, i.e., the dynamics of a CFT subject to a periodic driving. A complete phase diagram in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 Xueda Wen , Jie-Qiang Wu

Classification of the non-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics is a challenging problem in condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics. In this work, we study the basic question that whether a (1+1) dimensional conformal field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-24 Bo Han , Xueda Wen

Krylov complexity has recently emerged as a useful probe of operator growth and quantum dynamics in many-body systems and holographic dualities. In this paper we study its behavior in the Veneziano--Wosiek model, a supersymmetric matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Eleonora Alfinito , Matteo Beccaria

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 study Krylov complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac field theories with a generic dynamical critical exponent $z$. By computing the Lanczos coefficients for massless and massive cases, we analyze the growth and saturation behavior of Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Hamid R. Imani , Komeil Babaei Velni , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar

We investigate the interplay between unitary and non-unitary driven many-body dynamics in (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems described by conformal field theory (CFT). By formulating a coherent state approach, we demonstrate that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Bastien Lapierre , Pietro Pelliconi , Shinsei Ryu , Julian Sonner

We study the dissipative dynamics of a periodically driven inhomogeneous critical lattice model in one dimension. The closed system dynamics starting from pure initial states is well-described by a driven Conformal Field Theory (CFT), which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-08 Kenny Choo , Bastien Lapierre , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Apoorv Tiwari , Titus Neupert , Ramasubramanian Chitra

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

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
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