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The holographic principle suggests that regions of space contain fewer physical degrees of freedom than would be implied by conventional quantum field theory. Meanwhile, in Hilbert spaces of large dimension $2^n$, it is possible to define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Oliver Friedrich , ChunJun Cao , Sean M. Carroll , Gong Cheng , Ashmeet Singh

The ``butterfly effect'', i.e. the growth of a localized infinitesimal perturbation, is the fundamental property of chaotic systems. While the butterfly effect is today an obvious property of low-dimensional chaotic systems, its…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 V. J. Valadão , M. Cencini , F. De Lillo , S. Musacchio , G. Boffetta

We argue that the gravitational shock wave computation used to extract the scrambling rate in strongly coupled quantum theories with a holographic dual is directly related to probing the system's hydrodynamic sound modes. The information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 Sašo Grozdanov , Koenraad Schalm , Vincenzo Scopelliti

We propose a gravity dual of antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition (QPT) induced by magnetic field and study the critical behavior around the quantum critical point (QCP). It turns out that the boundary critical theory is a strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang , F. V. Kusmartsev

We investigate the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) of a strip geometry in four dimensional Q-lattice backgrounds, which exhibit metal-insulator transitions in the dual field theory. Remarkably, we find that the HEE always displays a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-26 Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Jian-Pin Wu , Zhuo-Yu Xian

The phase transition and jet quenching parameter ${\hat q}$ have been investigated in the framework of dynamical holographic QCD model. It is found that both the trace anomaly and the ratio of the jet quenching parameter over cubic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 Danning Li , Jinfeng Liao , Mei Huang

Background: In the last few decades quantum phase transitions have been of great interest in Nuclear Physics. In this context, two-fluid algebraic models are ideal systems to study how the concept of quantum phase transition evolves when…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 J. E. García-Ramos , P. Pérez-Fernandez , J. M Arias , E. Freire

In this paper, we study the holography of quasi-topological gravity in several aspects. We redo the calculation of shear viscosity on the boundary CFT with a new method which is associated with conserved Noether current and show that it has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-07 Jun Peng , Xing-Hui Feng

Scrambling is a diagnostic of quantum chaos in strongly coupled systems, and plays a central role in the holographic description of black hole dynamics. We study scrambling in high-temperature holographic CFTs, with an emphasis on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Juan Hernandez , Andrew Rolph

We have constructed a general theory describing the topological quantum phase transitions in 3D systems with broken inversion symmetry. While the consideration of the system's codimension generally predicts the appearance of a stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Bohm-Jung Yang , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Ryotaro Arita , Hiroki Isobe , Eun-Gook Moon , Naoto Nagaosa

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Yan Liu , Avinash Raju

We investigate two salient chaotic features, namely Lyapunov exponent and butterfly velocity, for an asymptotically Lifshitz black hole background with arbitrary dynamical critical exponent. These features are computed using three methods:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 Banashree Baishya , Adrita Chakraborty , Nibedita Padhi

We investigate a large-$N$ CFT in a high-energy pure state coupled to a small auxiliary system of $M$ weakly-interacting degrees of freedom, and argue the relative state complexity of the auxiliary system is holographically dual to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-28 Alexander Yosifov , Aditya Iyer , Lachezar Filipov

We analyze the dynamical response functions of strongly interacting quantum critical states described by conformal field theories (CFTs). We construct a self-consistent holographic model that incorporates the relevant scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Robert C. Myers , Todd Sierens , William Witczak-Krempa

In the current manuscript we perform a systematic investigation about the effects of nonlocal interaction to the spread of quantum information in many body system. In particular, we have studied how nonlocality influence the existing bound…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Sandip Mahish , Karunava Sil

In this paper, we employ the gauge/gravity duality to study jet quenching (JQ) phenomena in the quark-gluon plasma. For this purpose, we implement holographic QCD models constructed from an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity at finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Irina Ya. Aref'eva , Ali Hajilou , Alexander Nikolaev , Pavel Slepov

The jet quenching phenomenon in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma is studied using gauge-gravity duality. We consider a more general orientation of the contour of a lightlike Wilson loop in the boundary field theory. The Nambu-Goto action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Pavel Slepov

This study presents a comprehensive investigation of anisotropy in a holographic p-wave superconductor model, revealing novel insights into the behavior of quantum information measures in strongly coupled systems. Through rigorous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-10 Chong-Ye Chen , Mu-Jing Li , Zhe Yang , Da-Ming Jin , Peng Liu

The dissipative dynamics of strongly interacting systems are often characterised by the timescale set by the inverse temperature $\tau_P\sim\hbar/(k_BT)$. We show that near a class of strongly interacting quantum critical points that arise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Richard A. Davison , Simon A. Gentle , Blaise Goutéraux

We find that localised perturbations in a chaotic classical many-body system-- the classical Heisenberg We find that the effects of a localised perturbation in a chaotic classical many-body system--the classical Heisenberg chain at infinite…