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Quantum Chaos in Topologically Massive Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-30 v2 Chaotic Dynamics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study quantum chaos of rotating BTZ black holes in Topologically Massive gravity (TMG). We discuss the relationship between chaos parameters including Lyapunov exponents and butterfly velocities from shock wave calculations of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) and from pole-skipping analysis. We find a partial match between pole-skipping and the OTOC results in the high temperature regime. We also find that the velocity bound puts a chaos constraint on the gravitational Chern-Simons coupling.

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@article{arxiv.2005.08508,
  title  = {Quantum Chaos in Topologically Massive Gravity},
  author = {Yan Liu and Avinash Raju},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08508},
  year   = {2020}
}

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33 pages, 1 figure; v2: section 4.1 corrected, version to appear in JHEP

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