Circuit complexity for free fermion with a mass quench

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.114988zbMATH Open1473.81086arXiv1810.00537OpenAlexW2892933661MaRDI QIDQ2230271FDOQ2230271

Authors: Jie Jiang, Jieru Shan, Jian-Zhi Yang 

Publication date: 17 September 2021

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By using a recent approach proposed by Hackl $et,al.$ to evaluate the complexity of the free fermionic Gaussian state, we compute the complexity of the Dirac vacuum state as well as the excited state of the Fermi system with a mass quench. First of all, we review the counting method given by Hackl $et,al.$, and demonstrate that the result can be adapted to all of the compact transformation group $G$. Then, we utilize this result to study the time evolution of the complexity of these states. We show that, for the rotational invariant reference state, the total complexity of the incoming vacuum state will saturate the value of the instantaneous vacuum state at the late time, with a typical timescale to achieve the final stable state. Moreover, we find that the complexity growth under the sudden quench is directly proportional to the mass difference, which shares similar behaviors with the holograph complexity growth rate in an AdS-Vaidya black hole with a shock wave, even though the dual boundary CFT is strongly coupled. Finally, we obtain some features of the excited state and the non-rotational reference state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00537

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Coherent states (81R30) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

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