11–15 May 2026
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

From phase space to Krylov space: complexity and the geometry of chaos

13 May 2026, 09:00
1h
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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Speaker

Julian Sonner (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Description

We develop a classical counterpart of the Krylov complexity framework by running the Lanczos algorithm directly on the algebra of observables of a Hamiltonian system on a compact symplectic manifold. This construction arises naturally as the semiclassical limit of the quantum Lanczos algorithm. We demonstrate the usefulness of classical Krylov complexity in characterisation early-time dynamics in chaotic quantum systems with a semiclassical limit, and derive a Krylov-Ehrenfest theorem, which captures the eventual divergence of semiclassical and exact Krylov dynamics.

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