Many-Body Chaos in the Quantum Lifshitz Model

Yingfei Gu

Nikesh Lilani

We holographically study quantum chaos in hyperscaling-violating Lifshitz (HVL) theories (with charge). Specifically, we present a detailed computation of the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) via shockwave analysis in the bulk HVL geometry with a planar horizon topology. We also compute the butterfly velocity ($v_{B}$) using the entanglement wedge reconstruction and find that it matches the result obtained from the shockwave analysis. Using a recently developed thermodynamic dictionary for HVL theories, we express $v_B$ purely in terms of boundary thermodynamic variables. Furthermore, we analyze in detail the behavior of $v_{B}$ with respect to the dynamical critical exponent ($z$), hyperscaling-violating parameter ($θ$), entropy (more precisely, the ratio of entropy to the central charge, $\tilde{S}$), and charge (more precisely, the ratio of charge to the central charge, $\tilde{Q}$). Interestingly, $v_B$ varies non-monotonically with $z$ for $\tilde{S} < 1$, whereas it increases monotonically with $z$ for $\tilde{S} \geq 1$. Additionally, $v_B$ varies non-monotonically with $θ$ for non-zero charge. Moreover, $v_B$ monotonically increases with $\tilde{S}$ and decreases with $\tilde{Q}$ for all allowed values of $z$ and $θ$. All these features are reported for combinations /{$z$, $θ$, $\tilde{S}$, $\tilde{Q}$/} for which the temperature is positive, the null energy condition is satisfied, and $v_B$ is not superluminal. Unpacking the non-monotonicities in $v_B$ can offer interesting insights into these theories.

Gary E. Mitchell

Pierre Gaspard

Eugeniu Plamadeala, Eduardo Fradkin

Abstract We study signatures of chaos in the quantum Lifshitz model through out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOC) of current operators. This model is a free scalar field theory with dynamical critical exponent z = 2. It describes the quantum phase transition in 2D systems, such as quantum dimer models, between a phase with a uniform ground state to another one with spontaneously broken translation invariance. At the lowest temperatures the chaotic dynamics are dominated by a marginally irrelevant operator which induces a temperature dependent stiffness term. The numerical computations of OTOC exhibit a non-zero Lyapunov exponent (LE) in a wide range of temperatures and interaction strengths. The LE (in units of temperature) is a weakly temperature-dependent function; it vanishes at weak interaction and saturates for strong interaction. The Butterfly velocity increases monotonically with interaction strength in the studied region while remaining smaller than the interaction-induced velocity/stiffness.

Pavel Exner, Neidhardt, Exner

1. Schroedinger operators : spectra, scattering and semiclassical behaviour.- Negative discrete spectrum of the Schroedinger operator with large coupling constant : qualitative discussion.- Discrete spectrum in the gaps of the continuous one in the large-coupling-constant limit.- On the asymptotics of discrete spectrum for the Schroedinger operator in electric and homogeneous magnetic fields.- Asymptotics of the discrete spectrum of Hamiltonians of quantum systems with a homogeneous magnetic field.- Asymptotics of eigenvalues for many-particle Hamiltonians at symmetry subspaces.- Spectral asymptotics with highly accurate remainder estimates.- Bound states and resonances in quantum wires.- Spectral properties of the operators H? = ??XX + p(x)? + v(?x), p is periodic.- Discrete spectrum for a periodic Schroedinger operator perturbed by a decreasing potential.- On a complete description of the principal discrete series of spectral invariants of the Hill operator.- WKB-approximations from the perturbation theory viewpoint.- Moving potentials and the completeness of wave operators. Part II : Propagating observables on scattering states.- Representation of the three-body S-matrix in terms of effective amplitudes.- A three-body one-dimensional system with increasing interaction : wave function asymptotics.- Surprises of quantum tunneling (something about the velocity of sub-barrier motion).- 2. Point and contact interactions, self-adjoint extensions.- Lifshitz tails and non-Lifshitz tails for one-dimensional random point interactions.- Point interactions with an internal structure as limits of nonlocal point interactions.- Green's function for the Aharonov-Bohm effect with a non-Abelian gauge group.- A model of zero-width slits and the real diffraction problem.- Construction of an inelastic scatterer in nanoelectronics by the extension-theory methods.- On boundary theory for Schroedinger operators and stochastic processes.- Dirac Hamiltonian with Coulomb potential and contact intraction on a sphere.- Self-adjoint extensions of Schroedinger operators with singular potentials.- Currents and the extension theory.- 3. Quantum chaos.- Chaotic quantum billiards.- Relevance of the localization to quasienergy statistics in quantum chaotic systems.- Singular continuous quasi-energy spectrum in the kicked rotator with separable perturbation : onset of quantum chaos ?.- Relation between correlation functions and spectrum statistics in the region of quantum chaos.- 4. Other topics.- Localization effects in non-homogeneous dielectrics.- A self-adjoint dilation of the linear Boltzmann operator.- Kato problem for functional-differential equations and difference Schroedinger operators.- An existence theorem for some nonlinear nonlocal Schroedinger operators and the solitonlike dynamics for the corresponding dynamical systems.- The Sturm-Liouville problem with a potential linear in spectral parameter.- Stochastic model of tree growth.- Critical phenomenon in the stationary model of random growth.- On a quantum-classical connection, hidden symmetries and a model of Josephson junction.- Open multiquantum systems. Method of a generating functional.- Generalized functions and their applications.- List of unpublished contributions.- List of participants.