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The black hole butterfly effect is a signal of quantum chaos in holographic theories that can be probed in different ways, including out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), pole skipping (PS), and entanglement wedge (EW) reconstruction. Each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Wan Zhen Chua , Thomas Hartman , Wayne W. Weng

In this short note we use holographic methods to study the response of quantum critical points with hyperscaling violation to a disturbance caused by a massive charged particle. We give analytical expressions for the two-point functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-07 Mohammad Edalati , Juan F. Pedraza , Walter Tangarife Garcia

We consider decay of an initial density or current perturbation at finite temperature $T$ near a quantum critical point with emergent Lorentz invariance. We argue that decay of perturbations with wavenumbers $k \gg T$ (in natural units) is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Sergei Khlebnikov

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…

In this work, we have performed a detailed holographic analysis of the stochastic dynamics of a heavy particle propagating through a strongly coupled plasma moving with a constant velocity along a fixed spatial direction. To model this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Anirban Roy Chowdhury , Ashis Saha , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

The butterfly velocity $v_B$ has been proposed as a characteristic velocity for information propagation in local systems. It can be measured by the ballistic spreading of local operators in time (or, equivalently, by out-of-time-ordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-14 Charles Stahl , Vedika Khemani , David A. Huse

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

We construct a class of quantum critical points with non-mean-field critical exponents via holography. Our approach is phenomenological. Beginning with the D3/D5 system at nonzero density and magnetic field which has a chiral phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Nick Evans , Kristan Jensen , Keun-Young Kim

We study a scenario for the very early universe in which there is a fast phase transition from a non-geometric, high temperature phase to a low temperature, geometric phase described by a classical solution to the Einstein equations. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joao Magueijo , Lee Smolin , Carlo R. Contaldi

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

Holographic methods are used to investigate the low temperature limit, including quantum critical behavior, of strongly coupled 4-dimensional gauge theories in the presence of an external magnetic field, and finite charge density. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Eric D'Hoker , Per Kraus

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 quantum chaos in $\textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}}$-deformed two-dimensional conformal field theories with gravitational anomaly and their holographic dual description in topologically massive gravity. Using pole-skipping and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Debarshi Basu , Mingshuai Xu

We discuss dynamical response functions near quantum critical points, allowing for both a finite temperature and detuning by a relevant operator. When the quantum critical point is described by a conformal field theory (CFT), conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-03 Andrew Lucas , Todd Sierens , William Witczak-Krempa

We study the density driven symmetry breaking in holographic superconductors by considering the positive mass squared case. We show that even for the positive $m^2$, a scalar condensation still forms, provided the chemical potential is high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 Youngman Kim , Yumi Ko , Sang-Jin Sin

The holographic complexity has been studied in a background which includes a critical point in the dual field theory. We have examined how the complexity rate and the saturation time of dynamical variables in the theory behave as one moves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 H. Ebrahim , M. Asadi , M. Ali-Akbari

We study a fully backreacted holographic model of a four-dimensional superconductor by including a higher curvature interaction in the bulk action. We study how the critical temperature and the field theory condensate vary in this model and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Massimo Siani

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

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

Operator growth in spatially local quantum many-body systems defines a scrambling velocity. We prove that this scrambling velocity bounds the state dependence of the out-of-time-ordered correlator in local lattice models. We verify this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-09 Xizhi Han , Sean A. Hartnoll