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arXiv:2306.04805 · Journal of High Energy Physics

Krylov complexity in the IP matrix model

Norihiro Iizuka, Mitsuhiro Nishida

Published Nov 10, 2023• 24 citations
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Abstract

Abstract The IP matrix model is a simple large N quantum mechanical model made up of an adjoint harmonic oscillator plus a fundamental harmonic oscillator. It is a model introduced previously as a toy model of the gauge theory dual of an AdS black hole. In the large N limit, one can solve the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the fundamental correlator, and at sufficiently high temperature, this model shows key signatures of thermalization and information loss; the correlator decay exponentially in time, and the spectral density becomes continuous and gapless. We study the Lanczos coefficients bn in this model and at sufficiently high temperature, it grows linearly in n with logarithmic corrections, which is one of the fastest growth under certain conditions. As a result, the Krylov complexity grows exponentially in time as $$ \sim \exp \left(\mathcal{O}\left(\sqrt{t}\right)\right) $$ ∼ exp O t . These results indicate that the IP model at sufficiently high temperature is chaotic.

DOI
10.1007/jhep11(2023)065

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We continue the analysis of the Krylov complexity in the IP matrix model. In a previous paper, for a fundamental operator, it was shown that at zero temperature, the Krylov complexity oscillates and does not grow, but in the infinite temperature limit, the Krylov complexity grows exponentially in time as ∼exp⁡(O(t))\sim \exp\left( {\mathcal{O}\left( {\sqrt{t}}\right)} \right)∼exp(O(t​)). We study how the Krylov complexity changes from a zero-temperature oscillation to an infinite-temperature exponential growth. At low temperatures, the spectral density is approximated as collections of infinite Wigner semicircles. We showed that this infinite collection of branch cuts yields linear growth to the Lanczos coefficients and gives exponential growth of the Krylov complexity. Thus the IP model for any nonzero temperature shows exponential growth for the Krylov complexity even though the Green function decays by a power law in time. We also study the Lanczos coefficients and the Krylov complexity in the IOP matrix model taking into account the 1/N21/N^21/N2 corrections. There, the Lanczos coefficients are constants and the Krylov complexity does not grow exponentially as expected.
Krylov complexity, as a novel measure of operator complexity under Heisenberg evolution, exhibits many interesting universal behaviors and also bounds many other complexity measures. In this work, we study Krylov complexity K(t)\mathcal{K}(t)K(t) in Random Matrix Theory (RMT). In large NNN limit: (1) For infinite temperature, we analytically show that the Lanczos coefficient {bn}\{b_n\}{bn​} saturate to constant plateau lim⁡n→∞bn=b\lim\limits_{n\rightarrow\infty}b_n=bn→∞lim​bn​=b, rendering a linear growing complexity K(t)∼t\mathcal{K}(t)\sim tK(t)∼t, in contrast to the exponential-in-time growth in chaotic local systems in thermodynamic limit. After numerically comparing this plateau value bbb to a large class of chaotic local quantum systems, we find that up to small fluctuations, it actually bounds the {bn}\{b_n\}{bn​} in chaotic local quantum systems. Therefore we conjecture that in chaotic local quantum systems after scrambling time, the speed of linear growth of Krylov complexity cannot be larger than that in RMT. (2) For low temperature, we analytically show that bnb_nbn​ will first exhibit linear growth with nnn, whose slope saturates the famous chaos bound. After hitting the same plateau bbb, bnb_nbn​ will then remain constant. This indicates K(t)∼e2πt/β\mathcal{K}(t)\sim e^{2πt/β}K(t)∼e2πt/β before scrambling time t∗∼O(βlog⁡β)t_*\sim O(β\logβ)t∗​∼O(βlogβ), and after that it will grow linearly in time, with the same speed as in infinite temperature. We finally remark on the effect of finite NNN corrections.
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The IOP model is a quantum mechanical system of a large-N matrix oscillator and a fundamental oscillator, coupled through a quartic interaction. It was introduced previously as a toy model of the gauge dual of an AdS black hole, and captures a key property that at infinite N the two-point function decays to zero on long time scales. Motivated by recent work on quantum chaos, we sum all planar Feynman diagrams contributing to the four-point function. We find that the IOP model does not satisfy the more refined criteria of exponential growth of the out-of-time-order four-point function.
We study Krylov complexity in BMN Plane Wave Matrix Model at large mass deformation. We consider various consistent reductions of the matrix model that allow us to perform a Hamiltonian analysis which leads to different notions of the Krylov complexity. In the first part of the paper, we study the Krylov state complexity considering systematic reduction of N=3N=3N=3 and N=4N=4N=4 representations of the matrix model, which reveals a universal characteristic scaling for the Lanczos coefficients and fix them completely in terms of the mass deformation parameter. In the second part of the paper, we study the Krylov operator growth in the matrix model and compute the corresponding Lanczos coefficients. In both cases, we observe a \emph{linear} scaling of Lanczos coefficients with the mass parameter. The early time growth in Krylov complexity receives quadratic correction due to the presence of the massive deformation in the matrix model. Our analysis reveals that such massive corrections appear at same order in time for both the notion of the Krylov complexity.