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In this note, we study the holographic CFT in the de Sitter static patch at finite temperature $T$ and chemical potential. We find that butterfly velocity $v_B$ in such field theory degenerates for all values of the Hubble parameter $H$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Dmitry S. Ageev

We reveal for the first time that ultraviolet (UV) observables can diagnose quantum phase transitions (QPTs). In a class of holographic models exhibiting metal-insulator transitions, we study two types of UV observables -- high-frequency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Fang-Jing Cheng , Zhe Yang , Yi Ling , Jian-Pin Wu , Zhou-Jian Cao , Peng Liu

We study the properties of quantum cusp and butterfly catastrophes from an algebraic viewpoint. The analysis employs an interacting boson model Hamiltonian describing quantum phase transitions between specific quadrupole shapes by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-03 A. Leviatan , N. Gavrielov

We use holography to study sensitive dependence on initial conditions in strongly coupled field theories. Specifically, we mildly perturb a thermofield double state by adding a small number of quanta on one side. If these quanta are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Stephen H. Shenker , Douglas Stanford

We study a holographic model of a relativistic quantum system with a global U(1) symmetry, at non-zero temperature and density. When the temperature falls below a critical value, we find a second-order superfluid phase transition with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Herzog , P. K. Kovtun , D. T. Son

The entanglement exhibits extremal or singular behavior near quantum critical points (QCPs) in many condensed matter models. These intriguing phenomena, however, still call for a widely accepted understanding. In this letter we study this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Jian-Pin Wu

Lyapunov exponents, a purely classical quantity, play an important role in the evolution of quantum chaotic systems in the semiclassical limit. We conjecture the existence of an upper bound on the Lyapunov exponents that contribute to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-06 David Berenstein , Antonio M. García-García

Motivated by recent experimental attempts to detect the Hofstadter butterfly, we numerically calculate the Hall conductivity in a modulated two-dimensional electron system with disorder in the quantum Hall regime. We identify the critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

We holographically study quantum chaos in hyperscaling-violating Lifshitz (HVL) theories (with charge). Specifically, we present a detailed computation of the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) via shockwave analysis in the bulk HVL…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Nikesh Lilani

Thermal states holographically dual to black holes in Einstein gravity display maximal Lyapunov growth as well as "butterfly effect cones". We study these effects in highly non-equilibrium states, obtained from an initial thermal state by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-06 Vijay Balasubramanian , Ben Craps , Marine De Clerck , Kévin Nguyen

The celebrated holographic duality posits a correspondence between a quantum gravity in a bulk spacetime and a quantum field theory (QFT) defined on its lower-dimensional boundary. This duality not only offers deep insights into the…

The finite-curvature phase diagram of IHQCD, a bottom-up holographic model for large $N_c$ non-supersymmetric YM$_4$, is investigated. This holographic theory belongs to a class of Einstein-Dilaton theories that exhibit no scaling in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti , Jean-Loup Raymond

We establish the correspondence between the classical and quantum butterfly effects in nonlinear vector mechanics with the broken $O(N)$ symmetry. On one hand, we analytically calculate the out-of-time ordered correlation functions and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-11 Nikita Kolganov , Dmitrii A. Trunin

The study of information scrambling has profoundly deepened our understanding of many-body quantum systems. Much recent research has been devote to understanding the interplay between scrambling and decoherence in open systems. Continuing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Emanuel Dallas , Faidon Andreadakis , Paolo Zanardi

We prove the equivalence of two holographic computations of the butterfly velocity in higher-derivative theories with Lagrangian built from arbitrary contractions of curvature tensors. The butterfly velocity characterizes the speed at which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Xi Dong , Diandian Wang , Wayne W. Weng , Chih-Hung Wu

A holographic description on antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition (QPT) induced by magnetic field and the criticality in the vicinity of quantum critical point (QCP) have been investigated numerically recently. In this paper, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang , F. V. Kusmartsev

Holographic theories with classical gravity duals are maximally chaotic; i.e., they saturate the universal bound on the rate of growth of chaos. It is interesting to ask whether this property is true only for leading large $N$ correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Jan de Boer , Eva Llabrés , Juan F. Pedraza , David Vegh

We investigate the bounce solution in the holographic QCD and electroweak models with first-order phase transition. The strength parameter $\alpha$, inverse duration time $\beta/H$, and bubble wall velocity $v_w$ in the gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Yidian Chen , Danning Li , Mei Huang

In this work, we perform a holographic study to estimate the effect of backreaction on the correlation between two subsystems forming the thermofield double (TFD) state. Each of these subsystems is described as a strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Hironori Hoshino , Sanjay Pant , Karunava Sil

Black hole is well known to be a fast scrambler, responsible for physics of quantum chaos in dual holography. Recently, the Euclidean worm hole has been proposed to play a central role in the chaotic behavior of the spectral form factor.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-03 Ki-Seok Kim