Surveying Structural Complexity in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Quantum many-body systems exhibit a rich and diverse range of exotic behaviours, owing to their underlying non-classical structure. These systems present a deep structure beyond those that can be captured by measures of correlation and entanglement alone. Using tools from complexity science, we characterise such structure. We investigate the structural complexities that can be found within the patterns that manifest from the observational data of these systems. In particular, using two prototypical quantum many-body systems as test cases-the one-dimensional quantum Ising and Bose-Hubbard models-we explore how different information-theoretic measures of complexity are able to identify different features of such patterns. This work furthers the understanding of fully-quantum notions of structure and complexity in quantum systems and dynamics.

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This study investigates the structural complexity of quantum many-body systems using tools from complexity science. By examining the one-dimensional quantum Ising and Bose-Hubbard models, the researchers find that different information-theoretic measures of complexity can identify different features of these models.