On the origin of exponential operator growth in Hilbert space

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02800v2
• Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:52:01 GMT
• Title: On the origin of exponential operator growth in Hilbert space
• Authors: Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, Jan M. Rost, Stuart C. Althorpe,
• Abstract summary: We show that exponential operator growth in Hilbert space is governed by an off-diagonal decay of the operator matrix elements in the system eigenbasis.<n>When this decay is algebraic or slower, the growth rate saturates the universal bound.<n>This establishes a microscopic origin of operator growth which is independent of chaos, dimensionality or the presence of many-body interactions.
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• Abstract: The question of thermalization in quantum many-body systems has long been studied through the properties of matrix elements of operators corresponding to local observables. More recently, the focus has shifted to the dynamics of operators, which lead to seminal works proposing universal bounds on the rate of operator growth. In this work, we unify these two approaches: we show that exponential operator growth in Hilbert space, as measured by Krylov complexity, is governed by an exponential off-diagonal decay of the operator matrix elements in the system eigenbasis. When this decay is algebraic or slower, the growth rate saturates the universal bound, thereby establishing a microscopic origin of operator growth which is independent of chaos, dimensionality or the presence of many-body interactions.

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