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Pole skipping away from maximal chaos
ASC Workshops
English - April 06, 2021 16:18 - 59 minutes - 453 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingScience theretical physics workshops conferences quantum field theory string theory gravity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The pole skipping phenomenon is a subtle effect in the thermal energy density retarded two point function at a special point in the complex frequency and momentum planes. For maximally chaotic theories, this special point is related to data characterising the butterfly effect, and is explained by a common dynamical origin of energy transport and scrambling. I will argue that pole skipping also happens in non-maximally chaotic theories and its location corresponds to the stress tensor contribution to many body chaos. I will test this proposal in the large q limit of an SYK chain, where I determine both the Lyapunov growth of the OTO correlator and the energy density two point function exactly as a function of the coupling, interpolating between weekly coupled and maximally chaotic behaviour.