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Universal Charge Diffusion and the Butterfly Effect in Holographic Theories.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Blake, Mike 

Abstract

We study charge diffusion in holographic scaling theories with a particle-hole symmetry. We show that these theories have a universal regime in which the diffusion constant is given by D_{c}=Cv_{B}^{2}/(2πT), where v_{B} is the velocity of the butterfly effect. The constant of proportionality C depends only on the scaling exponents of the infrared theory. Our results suggest an unexpected connection between transport at strong coupling and quantum chaos.

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0101 Pure Mathematics

Journal Title

Phys Rev Lett

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Journal ISSN

0031-9007
1079-7114

Volume Title

117

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000385/1)
European Research Council (279943)
I am funded through a Junior Research Fellowship from Churchill College, University of Cambridge. This work was supported in part by the European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), ERC Grant Agreement STG 279943, Strongly Coupled Systems.