Fast scrambling without appealing to holographic duality

2020/04/30 by Zehan Li, Sayan Choudhury, W. Vincent Liu
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Aerospace engineering #Algorithm #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Computer science #Dual (grammatical number) #Duality (order theory) #Engineering #Holography #Mathematics #Philosophy #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum many-body systems #Quantum mechanics #Range (aeronautics) #Scrambling #Statistical physics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.quant-gas #cond-mat.stat-mech #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.043399

published as Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043399 (2020) · 11 Pages; 9 Figures

openalex publication_date 2020/12/21 · arxiv created 2021/01/02 · arxiv updated 2021/01/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This work examines the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a nonintegrable spin chain with competing short and long range interactions and shows that this model can exhibit fast scrambling, even though it is not known to be dual to a black hole.

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