Circuit complexity for free fermions

L Hackl, RC Myers - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We study circuit complexity for free fermionic field theories and Gaussian states.
Our definition of circuit complexity is based on the notion of geodesic distance on the Lie …

Complexity and entanglement for thermofield double states

S Chapman, J Eisert, L Hackl, MP Heller, R Jefferson… - SciPost physics, 2019 - scipost.org
Motivated by holographic complexity proposals as novel probes of black hole spacetimes,
we explore circuit complexity for thermofield double (TFD) states in free scalar quantum field …

Quantum computation as gravity

P Caputa, JM Magan - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We formulate Nielsen's geometric approach to circuit complexity in the context of two-
dimensional conformal field theories, where series of conformal transformations are …

Circuit complexity in interacting QFTs and RG flows

A Bhattacharyya, A Shekar, A Sinha - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
We consider circuit complexity in certain interacting scalar quantum field theories, mainly
focusing on the ϕ 4theory. We work out the circuit complexity for evolving from a nearly …

Complexity growth of operators in the SYK model and in JT gravity

SK Jian, B Swingle, ZY **an - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract The concepts of operator size and computational complexity play important roles in
the study of quantum chaos and holographic duality because they help characterize the …

Circuit complexity for coherent states

M Guo, J Hernandez, RC Myers, SM Ruan - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We examine the circuit complexity of coherent states in a free scalar field theory,
applying Nielsen's geometric approach as in [1]. The complexity of the coherent states have …

Holographic complexity in Vaidya spacetimes. Part II

S Chapman, H Marrochio, RC Myers - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract In this second part of the study initiated in [1], we investigate holographic
complexity for eternal black hole backgrounds perturbed by shock waves, with both the …

Random matrix theory for complexity growth and black hole interiors

A Kar, L Lamprou, M Rozali, J Sully - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We study a precise and computationally tractable notion of operator complexity in
holographic quantum theories, including the ensemble dual of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and …

Quantum complexity of time evolution with chaotic Hamiltonians

V Balasubramanian, M DeCross, A Kar… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We study the quantum complexity of time evolution in large-N chaotic systems, with
the SYK model as our main example. This complexity is expected to increase linearly for …

Chaos and complexity in quantum mechanics

T Ali, A Bhattacharyya, SS Haque, EH Kim, N Moynihan… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We propose a new diagnostic for quantum chaos. We show that the time evolution of
complexity for a particular type of target state can provide equivalent information about the …