18–23 Jul 2022
University of Vienna
Europe/Vienna timezone

Quantum complexity and topological phases of matter

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20m
Audimax (University of Vienna)

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University of Vienna

Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Speaker

Sinong Liu (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)

Description

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 illustrate this analytically in one of the representative examples, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Moreover, in the same setup, we analyze exactly solvable quench protocols where the evolution of the spread complexity shows distinct features depending on the topological vs non-topological phase of the initial state as well as the quench Hamiltonian.

Primary authors

Paweł Caputa (University of Warsaw) Sinong Liu (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)

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