Holographic butterfly effect at quantum critical points

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DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)025zbMATH Open1383.81243arXiv1610.02669MaRDI QIDQ1709253FDOQ1709253


Authors: Peng Liu, Jian-Pin Wu, Yi Ling Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When the Lyapunov exponent lambdaL in a quantum chaotic system saturates the bound lambdaLleqslant2pikBT, it is proposed that this system has a holographic dual described by a gravity theory. In particular, the butterfly effect as a prominent phenomenon of chaos can ubiquitously exist in a black hole system characterized by a shockwave solution near the horizon. In this paper we propose that the butterfly velocity can be used to diagnose quantum phase transition (QPT) in holographic theories. We provide evidences for this proposal with an anisotropic holographic model exhibiting metal-insulator transitions (MIT), in which the derivatives of the butterfly velocity with respect to system parameters characterizes quantum critical points (QCP) with local extremes in zero temperature limit. We also point out that this proposal can be tested by experiments in the light of recent progress on the measurement of out-of-time-order correlation function (OTOC).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02669




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