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Motivated by the recent connection between pole-skipping phenomena of two point functions and four point out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), we study the pole structure of thermal two-point functions in $d$-dimensional conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Yongjun Ahn , Viktor Jahnke , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Kyung-Sun Lee , Mitsuhiro Nishida

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

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

The pole-skipping phenomenon has been proposed as a connection between chaotic properties of black hole geometries and special points where regular solutions of linearized Einstein equations at horizons have extra free parameters. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Keun-Young Kim , Kyung-Sun Lee , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We analyze pole skipping of stress tensor two-point functions in two-dimensional quantum field theories perturbed away from conformality by a relevant deformation. The retarded two-point Green's function can be formally computed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Curtis T. Asplund , Sebastian Fischetti , Alexandra Miller , David M. Ramirez

We study the pole-skipping structure of incoming waves near the cosmic horizon $r=r_c$ in de Sitter (dS) spacetime. We find that the scalar field with spin-0, the Dirac field with spin-1/2, the Maxwell field with spin-1, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Haiming Yuan , Xian-Hui Ge , Keun-Young Kim

Using covariant expansions, recent work showed that pole skipping happens in general holographic theories with bosonic fields at frequencies $\mathrm{i}(l_b-s) 2\pi T$, where $l_b$ is the highest integer spin in the theory and $s$ takes all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-04 Sirui Ning , Diandian Wang , Zi-Yue Wang

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 develop the pole-skipping structure in de Sitter (dS) spacetime and find that their leading frequencies satisfy the relation $\omega_{dS}=i2\pi T_{dS}(1-s)$, where $T_{dS}=1/2\pi L$ and $s$ denotes spin. In the two-dimensional dS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Haiming Yuan , Xian-Hui Ge , Keun-Young Kim

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

We propose a method to reconstruct the metric and its arbitrary-order derivatives at the horizon for any static, planar-symmetric black hole, using an infinite set of discrete pole-skipping points in momentum space where the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Zhenkang Lu , Cheng Ran , Shao-feng Wu

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

We explore a new class of general properties of thermal holographic Green's functions that can be deduced from the near-horizon behaviour of classical perturbations in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. We show that at negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Mike Blake , Richard A. Davison , David Vegh

We study a set of examples of holographic duals to theories with spontaneous breaking of conformal invariance in different dimensions. The geometries are domain walls interpolating between two AdS spaces, with a non-trivial background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Carlos Hoyos , Uri Kol , Jacob Sonnenschein , Shimon Yankielowicz

We study correlation functions of scalar operators on the boundary of the $AdS_3$ space deformed by moving massive particles in the context of the AdS/CFT duality. To calculate two-point correlation functions we use the geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-15 D. S. Ageev , I. Ya. Aref'eva , M. D. Tikhanovskaya

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 present a systematic analysis of pole-skipping for scalar, Maxwell, and gravitational waves in cosmological spacetimes. Specifically, working in empty de Sitter space and in Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole geometries, we locate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Yongjun Ahn , Sašo Grozdanov , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Juan F. Pedraza

(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

We study the poles of the retarded Green's functions of strongly coupled field theories exhibiting a variety of phase structures from a crossover up to a first order phase transition. These theories are modeled by a dual gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Romuald A. Janik , Jakub Jankowski , Hesam Soltanpanahi

We study scalar and vector exchange terms in out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) holographically. By applying a computational method in graviton exchange, we analyze exponential behaviors in scalar and vector exchange terms at late times.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Keun-Young Kim , Kyung-Sun Lee , Mitsuhiro Nishida