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Complexity growth rate during phase transitions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-11-13 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present evidences for the connection between the potential of different fields and complexity growth rates both in conformal and confining cases. By studying different models, we also establish a strong connection between phase transitions and the discontinuities in the complexity growth rates. In the first example, for the dyonic black holes which are dual to van der Waals fluids, we find a similar first order phase transition in the behavior of complexity growth rate. We then compare the Schwinger effect and also the behavior of complexity in the AdS and AdS soliton backgrounds and comment on the connection between them. Finally, in a general Gubser model of QCD, we present the connections between the potentials, entropies, speed of sounds and complexity growth rates during crossover, first and second order phase transitions and also the behavior of quasinormal modes.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08164,
  title  = {Complexity growth rate during phase transitions},
  author = {Mahdis Ghodrati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08164},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

37 pages, 20 figures, v2: references added, v3: Plots in sections 2 and 3.2 have been improved, to appear in PRD

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