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Recent work has suggested an intriguing relation between quantum chaos and energy density correlations, known as pole skipping. We investigate this relationship in two dimensional conformal field theories on a finite size spatial circle by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 David M. Ramirez

Recent developments have indicated that in addition to out-of-time ordered correlation functions (OTOCs), quantum chaos also has a sharp manifestation in the thermal energy density two-point functions, at least for maximally chaotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-16 Mike Blake , Richard A. Davison , Sašo Grozdanov , Hong Liu

Recently, a direct signature of chaos in many body system has been realized from the energy density retarded Green's function using the phenomenon of `pole skipping'. Moreover, special locations in the complex frequency and momentum plane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Karunava Sil

(1+1)d QFTs provide a tractable arena for understanding the emergence of hydrodynamics in thermal states. At high temperatures this process is governed by the weak breaking of conformal symmetry, and so in this limit many features of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Richard A. Davison , Hanzhi Jiang

The holographic phenomena of pole skipping have been studied in the presence of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet interaction in the four-dimensional Anti-de Sitter-Schwarzchild black hole background. Pole skipping points are special points in phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Banashree Baishya , Kuntal Nayek

Pole-skipping offers compelling evidence for the hydrodynamic origin of chaotic behavior in strongly coupled quantum systems. We demonstrate that the cumulative effect of higher-order corrections to the hydrodynamic diffusive mode, captured…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Hyun-Sik Jeong

We study the relationship between many-body quantum chaos and energy dynamics in holographic quantum field theory states dual to the simply-spinning Myers-Perry-AdS$_5$ black hole. The enhanced symmetry of such black holes allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Markus A. G. Amano , Mike Blake , Casey Cartwright , Matthias Kaminski , Anthony P. Thompson

We calculate the thermal diffusion constant $D_T$ and butterfly velocity $v_B$ in neutral magnetized plasma using holographic magnetic brane background. We find the thermal diffusion constant satisfies Blake's bound. The constant in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-28 Wei Li , Shu Lin , Jiajie Mei

In this note we analyse the equations of motion of a minimally coupled Rarita-Schwinger field near the horizon of an anti-de Sitter-Schwarzschild geometry. We find that at special complex values of the frequency and momentum there exist two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Nejc Ceplak , David Vegh

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

We investigate the properties of pole-skipping of the sound channel in which the translational symmetry is broken explicitly or spontaneously. For this purpose, we analyze, in detail, not only the holographic axion model, but also the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Ya-Wen Sun

We study the chaotic dynamics in a classical many-body system of interacting spins on the kagome lattice. We characterise many-body chaos via the butterfly effect as captured by an appropriate out-of-time-ordered correlator. Due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Thomas Bilitewski , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Roderich Moessner

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

Recent studies of out-of-time ordered thermal correlation functions (OTOC) in holographic systems and in solvable models such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model have yielded new insights into manifestations of many-body chaos. So far the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Mike Blake , Hyunseok Lee , Hong Liu

An upper bound on Lyapunov exponent of a thermal many body quantum system has been conjectured recently. In this work, we attempt to achieve a physical understanding of what prevents a system from violating this bound. To this end, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Swapnamay Mondal

Recent developments identify pole-skipping as a `smoking-gun' signature of the hydrodynamic nature of chaos, offering an alternative way to probe quantum chaos in addition to the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC). We study the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Hong-Da Lyu , Jun-Kun Zhao , Li Li

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

Linking thermodynamic variables like temperature $T$ and the measure of chaos, the Lyapunov exponents $\lambda$, is a question of fundamental importance in many-body systems. By using nonlinear fluid equations in one and three dimensions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-21 Sugan D. Murugan , Dheeraj Kumar , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

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 conjecture a sharp bound on the rate of growth of chaos in thermal quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom. Chaos can be diagnosed using an out-of-time-order correlation function closely related to the commutator of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Juan Maldacena , Stephen H. Shenker , Douglas Stanford
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