Chaos and operator growth in 2d CFT

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2023)176MaRDI QIDQ6158786zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Surbhi Khetrapal

Publication date 31 May 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15860

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceconformal field models in string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: We study the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) in a zero temperature two dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) under evolution by a Liouvillian composed of the Virasoro generators. A bound was conjectured in arXiv:1812.08657 on the growth of the OTOC set by the Krylov complexity which is a measure of operator growth. The latter grows as an exponential of time with exponent $2alpha$, which sets an upper bound on the Lyapunov exponent, $lambd{a}_{L}leq2alpha$. We find that for a two dimensional zero temperature CFT, the OTOC decays exponentially with a Lyapunov exponent which saturates this bound. We show that these Virasoro generators form the modular Hamiltonian of the CFT with half space traced out. Therefore, evolution by this modular Hamiltonian gives rise to thermal dynamics in a zero temperature CFT. Leveraging the thermal dynamics of the system, we derive this bound in a zero temperature CFT using the analyticity and boundedness properties of the OTOC.

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