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Diffusivities bounds and chaos in holographic Horndeski theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-07-24 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the thermoelectric DC conductivities of Horndeski holographic models with momentum dissipation. We compute the butterfly velocity vBv_B and we discuss the existence of universal bounds on charge and energy diffusivities in the incoherent limit related to quantum chaos. We find that the Horndeski coupling represents a subleading contribution to the thermoelectric conductivities in the incoherent limit and therefore it does not affect any of the proposed bounds.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01766,
  title  = {Diffusivities bounds and chaos in holographic Horndeski theories},
  author = {Matteo Baggioli and Wei-Jia Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01766},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

16 pages + 3 appendices, 2 figures; v2: references added, typo corrected ; v3: minor revisions, references added, version published in JHEP