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Pole skipping is a recently discovered subtle effect in the thermal energy density retarded two point function at a special point in the complex $(\omega,p)$ planes. We propose that pole skipping is determined by the stress tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Changha Choi , Márk Mezei , Gábor Sárosi

We compute the Lyapunov exponents for test particles orbiting in unstable circular trajectories around D-dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN) black holes, scrutinizing instances of the chaos bound violation. Notably, we discover that an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Yu-Qi Lei , Xian-Hui Ge , Surojit Dalui

The relation between the onset of chaos and critical phenomena, like Quantum Phase Transitions (QPT) and Excited-State Quantum Phase transitions (ESQPT), is analyzed for atom-field systems. While it has been speculated that the onset of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-12 J. Chávez-Carlos , M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , S. Lerma-Hernández , J. G. Hirsch

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

Recently, the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) has gained much attention as an indicator of quantum chaos. In the semi-classical limit, its exponential growth rate resembles the classical Lyapunov exponent. The quantum-classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

The vast majority of dynamical systems in classical physics are chaotic and exhibit the butterfly effect: a minute change in initial conditions can soon have exponentially large effects elsewhere. But this phenomenon is difficult to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Efim B. Rozenbaum , Leonid A. Bunimovich , Victor Galitski

In maximally chaotic quantum systems, a class of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) saturate the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford (MSS) bound on chaos. Recently, it has been shown that the same OTOCs must also obey an infinite set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Sandipan Kundu

We investigate chaotic dynamics in extremal black holes by analyzing the motion of massless particles in both Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m and Kerr geometries. Two complementary approaches (i) taking the extremal limit of non-extremal solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-20 Surojit Dalui , Chiranjeeb Singha , Krishnakanta Bhattacharya

We study the chaotic dynamics of spinless extended bodies in a wide class of spherically symmetric spacetimes, which encompasses black-hole scenarios in many modified theories of gravity. We show that a spherically symmetric pulsating ball…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Fernanda de F. Rodrigues , Ricardo A. Mosna , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira

Chaotic motion near black holes has recently been examined through the lens of the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford (MSS) chaos-bound, but reported violations remain contradictory. A significant source of ambiguity stems from treating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Terkaa Victor Targema , Kazuharu Bamba , Riasat Ali , Usman Zafar

Quantum many-body chaos concerns the scrambling of quantum information among large numbers of degrees of freedom. It rests on the prediction that out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) of the form $\langle [A(t),B]^2\rangle$ can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Marius Lemm , Simone Rademacher

Out-of-time order correlators (OTOCs) are crucial tools for studying quantum chaos as they show distinct scrambling behavior for chaotic Hamiltonians. We calculate OTOC and analyze the quantum information scrambling in atom-field and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

The out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) is a measure of scrambling of quantum information. Scrambling is intuitively considered to be a significant feature of chaotic systems and thus the OTOC is widely used as a measure of chaos. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Tomás Notenson , Ignacio García-Mata , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) being explored as a measure of quantum chaos, is studied here in a coupled bipartite system. Each of the subsystems can be chaotic or regular and lead to very different OTOC growths both before and after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Ravi Prakash , Arul Lakshminarayan

We explore the upper bound of the Lyapunov exponent for test particles that maintain equilibrium in the radial direction near the charged black brane with the hyperscaling violating factor. The influences of black brane parameters…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-09 Yu-Qi Lei , Xian-Hui Ge

The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is central to the understanding of information scrambling in quantum many-body systems. In this work, we show that the OTOC in a quantum many-body system close to its critical point obeys dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Bo-Bo Wei , Gaoyong Sun , Myung-Joong Hwang

A simple probe of chaos and operator growth in many-body quantum systems is the out of time ordered four point function. In a large class of local systems, the effects of chaos in this correlator build up exponentially fast inside the so…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Márk Mezei , Gábor Sárosi

In this paper, we investigate Lyapunov exponents of chaos for both massless and charged particles around a non-linear electrodynamics black hole, and explore their relationships with a phase transition and a chaos bound of this black hole.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Chuanhong Gao , Chuang Yang , Tetvui Chong , Deyou Chen

Topology change in quantum gravity is considered. An exact wave function of the Universe is calculated for topological Chern-Simons 2+1 dimensional gravity. This wave function occurs as the effect of a quantum anomaly which leads to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-19 Pawel O. Mazur

While the motion of particles near a rotating, electrically-neutral (Kerr), and charged (Kerr--Newman) black hole is always strictly regular, a perturbation in the gravitational or the electromagnetic field generally leads to chaos. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-28 O. Kopáček , V. Karas