Disorder in gauge/gravity duality, pole spectrum statistics and random matrix theory

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/9/095014zbMATH Open1291.83187arXiv1206.1856OpenAlexW2964131015MaRDI QIDQ4979698FDOQ4979698

Authors: Omid Saremi 

Publication date: 19 June 2014

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In condensed-matter, level statistics has long been used to characterize the phases of a disordered system. We provide evidence within the context of a simple model that in a disordered large-N gauge theory with a gravity dual, there exist phases where the nearest neighbor spacing distribution of the unfolded pole spectra of generic two-point correlators is Poisson. This closely resembles the localized phase of the Anderson Hamiltonian. We perform two tests on our statistical hypothesis. One is based on a statistic defined in the context of Random Matrix Theory, the so-called $$, or spectral rigidity, proposed by Dyson and Mehta. The second is a $chi$-squared test. In our model, the results of both tests are consistent with the hypothesis that the pole spectra of two-point functions can be at least in two distinct phases; first a regular sequence and second a completely uncorrelated sequence with a Poisson nearest neighbor spacing distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1856

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondencedisordered systemsAnderson modelgravitationcondensed-matter physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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• Confining backgrounds and quantum chaos in holography
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