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All holographic systems have scar states

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-06-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Scar states are special finite-energy density, but non-thermal states of chaotic Hamiltonians. We argue that all holographic quantum field theories, including N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang--Mills, have scar states. Their presence is tied to the existence of non-topological, horizonless soliton solutions in gravity: oscillons and a novel family of excited boson stars. We demonstrate that these solutions have periodic oscillations in the correlation functions and posses low-entanglement entropy as expected for scar states. Also we find that they can be very easily prepared with Euclidean path integral.

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@article{arxiv.2307.11348,
  title  = {All holographic systems have scar states},
  author = {Alexey Milekhin and Nikolay Sukhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11348},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2: updates references, minor comments; v1: 11 pages, 10 figures