6696 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6696-5 194 16 Holographic subregion complexity in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory Regular Article - Theoretical Physics 1 12 2019 2 21 2018 10 17 2019 2 18 2019 3 4 National Natural Science Foundation of China 11575195 11875053 The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3 Yi Ling lingy@ihep.ac.cn Yuxuan Liu liuyuxuan@ihep.ac.cn Cheng-Yong Zhang zhangchengyong@fudan.edu.cn 0000000119573309 grid.9227.e Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China 0000 0004 1797 8419 grid.410726.6 School of Physics University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China 0000 0001 0125 2443 grid.8547.e Department of Physics and Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics Fudan University Shanghai 200433 China Abstract We numerically investigate the evolution of the holographic subregion complexity during a quench process in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. Based on the subregion CV conjecture, we argue that the subregion complexity can be treated as a probe to explore the interior of the black hole. The effects of the nonlinear parameter and the charge on the evolution of the holographic subregion complexity are also investigated. When the charge is sufficiently large, it not only changes the evolution pattern of the subregion complexity, but also washes out the second stage featured by linear growth.