https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14669-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Krylov complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac field theories
Department of Physics, University of Guilan, P.O. Box 41335-1914, Rasht, Iran
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Received:
16
June
2025
Accepted:
23
August
2025
Published online:
9
September
2025
Abstract
We study Krylov complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac field theories with a generic dynamical critical exponent z. By computing the Lanczos coefficients for massless and massive cases, we analyze the growth and saturation behavior of Krylov complexity in different regimes. We incorporate a hard UV cutoff and investigate the effects of lattice discretization, revealing fundamental differences between continuum and lattice models. In the presence of a UV cutoff, Krylov complexity exhibits an initial exponential growth followed by a linear regime, with saturation values dictated by the cutoff scale. For the lattice model, we find a fundamental departure from the continuum case: due to the finite Krylov basis, Krylov complexity saturates rather than growing indefinitely. Our findings suggest that Lifshitz scaling influences operator growth and information spreading in quantum systems. We further find that increasing the Lifshitz exponent z suppresses Krylov complexity, entropy, and Lanczos growth in both massless and massive cases, while enhancing K-variance. This trend reverses under a hard UV cutoff, where complexity and entropy increase with z. In lattice models, early-time complexity and 
decay shift with z, echoing the continuum behavior of massive and massless regimes.
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