Quantum computational complexity from quantum information to black holes and back

S Chapman, G Policastro - The European Physical Journal C, 2022 - Springer
Quantum computational complexity estimates the difficulty of constructing quantum states
from elementary operations, a problem of prime importance for quantum computation …

Quantum information in holographic duality

B Chen, B Czech, ZZ Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We give a pedagogical review of how concepts from quantum information theory build up
the gravitational side of the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. The review …

Quantum chaos and the complexity of spread of states

V Balasubramanian, P Caputa, JM Magan, Q Wu - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
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” …

Geometry of Krylov complexity

P Caputa, JM Magan, D Patramanis - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
We develop a geometric approach to operator growth and Krylov complexity in many-body
quantum systems governed by symmetries. We start by showing a direct link between a …

Universal chaotic dynamics from Krylov space

J Erdmenger, SK Jian, ZY Xian - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Krylov complexity measures the spread of the wavefunction in the Krylov basis,
which is constructed using the Hamiltonian and an initial state. We investigate the evolution …

Circuit complexity in quantum field theory

RA Jefferson, RC Myers - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Motivated by recent studies of holographic complexity, we examine the question of
circuit complexity in quantum field theory. We provide a quantum circuit model for the …

Quantum complexity and topological phases of matter

P Caputa, S Liu - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In this work, we find that the complexity of quantum many-body states, defined as a spread in
the Krylov basis, may serve as a probe that distinguishes topological phases of matter. We …

Krylov complexity in conformal field theory

A Dymarsky, M Smolkin - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
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 …

On the time dependence of holographic complexity

D Carmi, S Chapman, H Marrochio, RC Myers… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We evaluate the full time dependence of holographic complexity in various eternal
black hole backgrounds using both the complexity= action (CA) and the complexity= volume …

Ultimate speed limits to the growth of operator complexity

N Hörnedal, N Carabba… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
In an isolated system, the time evolution of a given observable in the Heisenberg picture can
be efficiently represented in Krylov space. In this representation, an initial operator becomes …