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 …

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 …

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 …

Liouville action as path-integral complexity: from continuous tensor networks to AdS/CFT

P Caputa, N Kundu, M Miyaji, T Takayanagi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We propose an optimization procedure for Euclidean path-integrals that evaluate
CFT wave functionals in arbitrary dimensions. The optimization is performed by minimizing …

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 …

Anti–de sitter space from optimization of path integrals in conformal field theories

P Caputa, N Kundu, M Miyaji, T Takayanagi… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We introduce a new optimization procedure for Euclidean path integrals, which compute
wave functionals in conformal field theories (CFTs). We optimize the background metric in …

Noether charge, black hole volume, and complexity

J Couch, W Fischler, PH Nguyen - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract In this paper, we study the physical significance of the thermodynamic volumes of
AdS black holes using the Noether charge formalism of Iyer and Wald. After applying this …

Complexity for conformal field theories in general dimensions

N Chagnet, S Chapman, J de Boer, C Zukowski - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
We study circuit complexity for conformal field theory states in an arbitrary number of
dimensions. Our circuits start from a primary state and move along a unitary representation …

The volume of the black hole interior at late times

LV Iliesiu, M Mezei, G Sárosi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Understanding the fate of semi-classical black hole solutions at very late times is
one of the most important open questions in quantum gravity. In this paper, we provide a …

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 …