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When the Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_L$ in a quantum chaotic system saturates the bound $\lambda_L\leqslant 2\pi k_BT$, it is proposed that this system has a holographic dual described by a gravity theory. In particular, the butterfly effect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-24 Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Jian-Pin Wu

Recently, it has been proposed that the butterfly velocity - a speed at which quantum information propagates - may provide a fundamental bound on diffusion constants in dirty incoherent metals. We analytically compute the charge diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-28 Andrew Lucas , Julia Steinberg

In this note we remark that the butterfly effect can be used to diagnose the phase transition of superconductivity in a holographic framework. Specifically, we compute the butterfly velocity in a charged black hole background as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-20 Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Jian-Pin Wu

We study an anisotropic holographic bottom-up model displaying a quantum phase transition (QPT) between a topologically trivial insulator and a non-trivial Weyl semimetal phase. We analyze the properties of quantum chaos in the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-11 Matteo Baggioli , Bikash Padhi , Philip W. Phillips , Chandan Setty

We investigate the shear viscosity and butterfly velocity of a magnetic field-induced quantum phase transition in five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory, which is holographically dual to a class of strongly coupled quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Jun-Kun Zhao , Li Li

The butterfly velocity characterizes the spread of correlations in a quantum system. Recent work has provided a method of calculating the butterfly velocity of a class of boundary operators using holographic duality. Utilizing this and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Yasunori Nomura , Nico Salzetta

In this paper, we make a systematical and in-depth exploration on the phase structure and the behaviors of butterfly velocity in an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axions (EMDA) model. Depending on the model parameter, there are two kinds of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-03 Guoyang Fu , Xi-Jing Wang , Peng Liu , Dan Zhang , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

We explore quantum dynamics in Floquet many-body systems with local conservation laws in one spatial dimension, focusing on sectors of the Hilbert space which are highly polarized. We numerically compare the predicted charge diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Xiao Chen , Rahul M. Nandkishore , Andrew Lucas

We study charge diffusion in holographic scaling theories with a particle-hole symmetry. We show that these theories have a universal regime in which the diffusion constant is given by $D_c = C v_B^2/ (2 \pi T)$ where $v_B$ is the velocity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Mike Blake

We study the butterfly effect and pole-skipping phenomenon for the 1RCBH model which enjoys a critical point in its phase diagram. Using the holographic idea, we compute the butterfly velocity and interestingly find that this velocity can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 B. Amrahi , M. Asadi , F. Taghinavaz

In this work, we study quantum chaos in a variety of holographic QCD models at finite temperature and chemical potentials. This includes the 1 R-Charge black hole (1RCBH) model, the 2 R-Charge black hole (2RCBH) model, a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Nikesh Lilani , Dilpreet Sandhu , Subhash Mahapatra

The holographic system described by Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons dynamics in the bulk of AdS exhibits a chiral magnetic effect and a quantum critical point. Through numerical calculations, we find that the butterfly velocity can serve as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-01 Navid Abbasi , Karl Landsteiner

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

These notes present a comprehensive analysis of shockwave geometries in holographic settings, focusing on $\textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}}$-deformed BTZ black holes and their extensions. By constructing deformed metrics and employing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Debarshi Basu , Ashish Chandra , Qiang Wen

Using high-precision numerical analysis, we show that 3+1 dimensional gauge theories holographically dual to 4+1 dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory undergo a quantum phase transition in the presence of a finite charge density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Eric D'Hoker , Per Kraus

We study scrambling, an avatar of chaos, in a weakly interacting metal in the presence of random potential disorder. It is well known that charge and heat spread via diffusion in such an interacting disordered metal. In contrast, we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-15 Aavishkar A. Patel , Debanjan Chowdhury , Subir Sachdev , Brian Swingle

As experiments are increasingly able to probe the quantum dynamics of systems with many degrees of freedom, it is interesting to probe fundamental bounds on the dynamics of quantum information. We elaborate on the relationship between one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel A. Roberts , Brian Swingle

We study thermodynamic and transport observables of quantum critical states that arise in the infra-red limit of holographic renormalisation group flows. Although these observables are expected to exhibit quantum critical scaling, there are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 Richard A. Davison , Simon A. Gentle , Blaise Goutéraux

We investigate the holographic mixed-state entanglement measures in the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar (EMS) theory. Several quantities are computed, including the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE), mutual information (MI), entanglement wedge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Zhe Yang , GuangZai Ye , Jian-Pin Wu , Peng Liu

The speed of information propagation is finite in quantum systems with local interactions. In many such systems, local operators spread ballistically in time and can be characterized by a "butterfly velocity", which can be measured via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-27 Yong-Liang Zhang , Vedika Khemani
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