Diagnosing Quantum Many-body Chaos in Non-Hermitian Quantum Spin Chain via Krylov Complexity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15982v2
• Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:04:11 GMT
• Title: Diagnosing Quantum Many-body Chaos in Non-Hermitian Quantum Spin Chain via Krylov Complexity
• Authors: Yijia Zhou, Wei Xia, Lin Li, Weibin Li,
• Abstract summary: We study the emergence of nonchaotic dynamics in a quantum spin chain with a local non-Hermitian disorder.<n>As the disorder strength increases, the emergence of nonchaotic dynamics is qualitatively captured through the growth of Krylov complexity.
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• Abstract: We investigate the phase transitions from chaotic to nonchaotic dynamics in a quantum spin chain with a local non-Hermitian disorder, which can be realized with a Rydberg atom array setting. As the disorder strength increases, the emergence of nonchaotic dynamics is qualitatively captured through the suppressed growth of Krylov complexity, and quantitatively identified through the reciprocity breaking of Krylov space. We further find that the localization in Krylov space generates another transition in the weak disorder regime, suggesting a weak ergodicity breaking. Our results closely align with conventional methods, such as the entanglement entropy and complex level spacing statistics, and pave the way to explore non-Hermitian phase transitions using Krylov complexity and associated metrics.

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