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Keun-Young Kim

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arXiv2023

Pole-Skipping in Rotating BTZ Black Holes

Motivated by the connection between pole-skipping phenomena of two point functions and four point out-of-time-order correlators, we study the pole-skipping phenomena for rotating BTZ black holes. In particular, we investigate the effect of rotations on the pole-skipping point for various fields with spin $s = 1/2, 1, 2/3$, extending the previous research for $s=0, 2$. We derive an analytic full tower of the pole-skipping points of fermionic ($s=1/2$) and vector ($s=1$) fields by the exact holographic Green's functions. For the \textit{non-extremal} black hole, the leading pole-skipping frequency is $ω_{\text{leading}}=2πi T_h {(s-1+νΩ)}/{(1-Ω^2)}$ where $T_h$ is the temperature, $Ω$ the rotation, and $ν:=(Δ_+ - Δ_-)/2$, the difference of conformal dimensions ($Δ_{\pm}$). These are confirmed by another independent method: the near-horizon analysis. For the \textit{extremal} black hole, we find that the leading pole-skipping frequency can occur at $ω_{\text{leading}}^{\text{extremal}}=-2πi T_R {(s+1)}$ only when $ν= s+1$, where $T_R$ is the temperature of the right moving mode. It is non-trivial because it cannot be achieved by simply taking the extreme limit ($T_h\rightarrow 0\,, Ω\rightarrow 1$) of the non-extremal black hole result.

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arXiv2023

Spectral and Krylov Complexity in Billiard Systems

In this work, we investigate spectral complexity and Krylov complexity in quantum billiard systems at finite temperature. We study both circle and stadium billiards as paradigmatic examples of integrable and non-integrable quantum-mechanical systems, respectively. We show that the saturation value and time scale of spectral complexity may be used to probe the non-integrability of the system since we find that when computed for the circle billiard, it saturates at a later time scale compared to the stadium billiards. This observation is verified for different temperatures. Furthermore, we study the Krylov complexity of the position operator and its associated Lanczos coefficients at finite temperature using the Wightman inner product. We find that the growth rate of the Lanczos coefficients saturates the conjectured universal bound at low temperatures. Additionally, we also find that even a subset of the Lanczos coefficients can potentially serve as an indicator of integrability, as they demonstrate erratic behavior specifically in the circle billiard case, in contrast to the stadium billiard. Finally, we also study Krylov entropy and verify its early-time logarithmic relation with Krylov complexity in both types of billiard systems.

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arXiv2023

Worldsheet traversable wormholes

We construct worldsheet traversable wormholes by considering the effects of a double-trace deformation, $δ\mathcal{L}\sim h\partialϕ_L\partialϕ_R$, coupling the endpoints of an open string in AdS space. The operator deforming the theory is irrelevant and makes the boundaries bend inward toward the IR. This effect, reminiscent of two-dimensional dilaton gravities, renders the teleportation protocol more efficient and facilitates the transfer of information between the members of the dual Bell pair. We compare our results with those obtained with the standard double-trace deformation, $δ\mathcal{L}\sim hϕ_Lϕ_R$, introduced by Gao, Jafferis and Wall.

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arXiv2023

Collective dynamics and the Anderson-Higgs mechanism in a bona fide holographic superconductor

The holographic superconductor is one of the most popular models in the context of applied holography. Despite what its name suggests, it does not describe a superconductor. On the contrary, the low temperature phase of its dual field theory is a superfluid with a spontaneously broken U(1) global symmetry. As already observed in the previous literature, a bona fide holographic superconductor can be constructed using mixed boundary conditions for the bulk gauge field. By exploiting this prescription, we study the near-equilibrium collective dynamics in the Higgs phase and reveal the characteristic features of the Anderson-Higgs mechanism. We show that second sound disappears from the spectrum and the gauge field acquires a finite energy gap of the order of the plasma frequency. We observe an overdamped to underdamped crossover for the Higgs mode which acquires a finite energy gap below $\approx T_c/2$, with $T_c$ the superconducting critical temperature. Interestingly, the energy gap of the Higgs mode at low temperature is significantly smaller than $2Δ$, with $Δ$ the superconducting energy gap. Finally, we interpret our results using Ginzburg-Landau theory and we confirm the validity of previously derived perturbative analytic expressions.

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arXiv2023

Impurity-Driven Metal-Insulator Transitions in Holography

In this work, we study Metal-Insulator transition in a holographic model containing an interaction between the order parameter and charge-carrier density. It turns out that the impurity density of this model can drive the phase transition whose ordered phase corresponds to the insulating phase. The temperature behavior of DC conductivity distinguishes the insulating phase from the metal phase. We confirm this behavior by a numerical method and an analytic calculation. As a byproduct, we show the existence of a `quantum phase transition' supported by the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound argument.

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arXiv2022

Holography and magnetohydrodynamics with dynamical gauge fields

Within the framework of holography, the Einstein-Maxwell action with Dirichlet boundary conditions corresponds to a dual conformal field theory in presence of an external gauge field. Nevertheless, in many real-world applications, e.g., magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, superconductors, etc. dynamical gauge fields and Coulomb interactions are fundamental. In this work, we consider bottom-up holographic models at finite magnetic field and (free) charge density in presence of dynamical boundary gauge fields which are introduced using mixed boundary conditions. We numerically study the spectrum of the lowest quasi-normal modes and successfully compare the obtained results to magnetohydrodynamics theory in $2+1$ dimensions. Surprisingly, as far as the electromagnetic coupling is small enough, we find perfect agreement even in the large magnetic field limit. Our results prove that a holographic description of magnetohydrodynamics does not necessarily need higher-form bulk fields but can be consistently derived using mixed boundary conditions for standard gauge fields.

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arXiv2022

Holographic entanglement density for spontaneous symmetry breaking

We investigate the properties of the holographic entanglement entropy of the systems in which the $U(1)$ or the translational symmetry is broken \textit{spontaneously}. For this purpose, we define the entanglement density of the strip-subsystems and examine both the first law of entanglement entropy (FLEE) and the area theorem. We classify the conditions that FLEE and/or the area theorem obey and show that such a classification may be useful for characterizing the systems. We also find universalities from both FLEE and the area theorem. In the spontaneous symmetry breaking case, FLEE is always obeyed regardless of the type of symmetry: $U(1)$ or translation. For the translational symmetry, the area theorem is always violated when the symmetry is weakly broken, independent of the symmetry breaking patterns (explicit or spontaneous). We also argue that the $\log$ contribution of the entanglement entropy from the Goldstone mode may not appear in the strongly coupled systems.

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arXiv2022

Quasi-normal modes of dyonic black holes and magneto-hydrodynamics

We revisit the magneto-hydrodynamics in (2+1) dimensions and confirm that it is consistent with the quasi-normal modes of the (3+1) dimensional dyonic black holes in the most general set-up with finite density, magnetic field and wave vector. We investigate all possible modes (sound, shear, diffusion, cyclotron etc.) and their interplay. For the magneto-hydrodynamics we perform a complete and detailed analysis correcting some prefactors in the literature, which is important for the comparison with quasi-normal modes. For the quasi-normal mode computations in holography we identify the independent fluctuation variables of the dyonic black holes, which is nontrivial at finite density and magnetic field. As an application of the quasi-normal modes of the dyonic black holes we investigate a transport property, the diffusion constant. We find that the diffusion constant at finite density and magnetic field saturates the lower bound at low temperature. We show that this bound can be understood from the pole-skipping point.

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arXiv2022

Construction of bulk solutions for towers of pole-skipping points

The pole-skipping phenomenon has been proposed as a connection between chaotic properties of black hole geometries and special points where regular solutions of linearized Einstein equations at horizons have extra free parameters. In this work, we pursue the special points in the near-horizon analysis of integer spin-$\ell$ fields on the Rindler-AdS black hole. We construct linear combinations of field components to simplify coupled equations of massive fields and investigate towers of the special points along with imaginary Matsubara frequencies $iω=2π(n+1-\ell)T$ with a non-negative integer $n$ and the Hawking temperature $T$. We also propose that integrals of spin-$\ell$ bulk propagators over horizons of static black holes capture behaviors at the special points, which are generalizations of integrals of graviton propagators for shock wave geometries. Their interpretation is provided in terms of four-point amplitudes with the spin-$\ell$ exchange.

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arXiv2021

Homes' law in holographic superconductor with linear-$T$ resistivity

Homes' law, $ρ_{s} = C \, σ_{DC} \, T_{c}$, is a universal relation of superconductors between the superfluid density $ρ_{s}$ at zero temperature, the critical temperature $T_{c}$ and the electric DC conductivity $σ_{DC}$ at $T_c$. Experimentally, Homes' law is observed in high $T_c$ superconductors with linear-$T$ resistivity in the normal phase, giving a material independent universal constant $C$. By using holographic models related to the Gubser-Rocha model, we investigate how Homes' law can be realized together with linear-$T$ resistivity in the presence of momentum relaxation. We find that strong momentum relaxation plays an important role to exhibit Homes' law with linear-$T$ resistivity.

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arXiv2021

Upper bound of the charge diffusion constant in holography

We investigate the upper bound of charge diffusion constant in holography. For this purpose, we apply the conjectured upper bound proposal related to the equilibration scales ($ω_{\text{eq}}, k_{\text{eq}}$) to the Einstein-Maxwell-Axion model. ($ω_{\text{eq}}, k_{\text{eq}}$) is defined as the collision point between the diffusive hydrodynamic mode and the first non-hydrodynamic mode, giving rise to the upper bound of the diffusion constant $D$ at low temperature $T$ as $D = ω_{\text{eq}}/k_{\text{eq}}^2$. We show that the upper bound proposal also works for the charge diffusion and ($ω_{\text{eq}}, k_{\text{eq}}$), at low $T$, is determined by $D$ and the scaling dimension $Δ(0)$ of an infra-red operator as $(ω_{\text{eq}}, \, k_{\text{eq}}^2) \,=\, (2 πT Δ(0) \,, ω_{\text{eq}}/D)$, as for other diffusion constants. However, for the charge diffusion, we find that the collision occurs at real $k_{\text{eq}}$, while it is complex for other diffusions. In order to examine the universality of the conjectured upper bound, we also introduce a higher derivative coupling to the Einstein-Maxwell-Axion model. This coupling is particularly interesting since it leads to the violation of the \textit{lower} bound of the charge diffusion constant so the correction may also have effects on the \textit{upper} bound of the charge diffusion. We find that the higher derivative coupling does not affect the upper bound so that the conjectured upper bound would not be easily violated.

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arXiv2021

Impurity Effect on Hysteric Magnetoconductance: Holographic Approach

In this paper we study a hysteric phase transition from weak localization phase to hysteric magnetoconductance phase using gauge/gravity duality. This hysteric phase is triggered by a spontaneous magnetization related to Z2 symmetry and time reversal symmetry in a 2+1 dimensional system with momentum relaxation. We derive thermoelectric conductivity formulas describing non-hysteric and hysteric phases. At low temperatures, this magneto-conductance shows similar phase transitions of topological insulator surface states. We also obtain hysteresis curves of Seebeck coefficient and Nernst signal. It turns out that our impurity parameter changes magnetic properties of the dual system. This is justified by showing increasing susceptibility and the spontaneous magnetization with increasing impurity parameter.

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arXiv2021

Islands in charged linear dilaton black holes

We investigate the Page curve for a non-standard black hole which is asymptotically non-flat/AdS/dS. For this purpose, we apply the island prescription to the charged linear dilaton black holes and analyze, in detail, the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation for both the non-extremal case and the extremal case. In the non-extremal case, we find the Page curve consistent with the unitarity principle: at early times the entanglement entropy grows linearly in time without the island and at late times it is saturated double of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in the presence of the island. We observe the Page time is universal for all different models studied by our method: $t_{\text{Page}}=\frac{3}{ πc}\frac{S_{\text{BH}}}{T_H}.$ For the extremal case, the island prescription provides the well defined entanglement entropy only with the island, which can not be obtained from the continuous limit of the non-extremal case. This implies that the Page curve may not be reproduced for the extremal case and further investigation is needed.

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arXiv2021

Regge conformal blocks from the Rindler-AdS black hole and the pole-skipping phenomena

We study a holographic construction of conformal blocks in the Regge limit of four-point scalar correlation functions by using coordinates of the two-sided Rindler-AdS black hole. As a generalization of geodesic Witten diagrams, we construct diagrams with four external scalar fields in the Rindler-AdS black hole by integrating over two half-geodesics between the centers of Penrose diagrams and points at the AdS boundary. We demonstrate that late-time behaviors of the diagrams coincide with the Regge behaviors of conformal blocks. We also point out their relevance with the pole-skipping phenomena by showing that the near-horizon analysis of symmetric traceless fields with any integer spin in the Rindler-AdS black hole can capture the Regge behaviors of conformal blocks.

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arXiv2021

The breakdown of magneto-hydrodynamics near AdS$_2$ fixed point and energy diffusion bound

We investigate the breakdown of magneto-hydrodynamics at low temperature ($T$) with black holes whose extremal geometry is AdS$_2\times$R$^2$. The breakdown is identified by the equilibration scales ($ω_{\text{eq}}, k_{\text{eq}}$) defined as the collision point between the diffusive hydrodynamic mode and the longest-lived non-hydrodynamic mode. We show ($ω_{\text{eq}}, k_{\text{eq}}$) at low $T$ is determined by the diffusion constant $D$ and the scaling dimension $Δ(0)$ of an infra-red operator: $ω_{\text{eq}} = 2πT Δ(0), \, k_{\text{eq}}^2 = ω_{\text{eq}}/D$, where $Δ(0)=1$ in the presence of magnetic fields. For the purpose of comparison, we have analytically shown $Δ(0)=2$ for the axion model independent of the translational symmetry breaking pattern (explicit or spontaneous), which is complementary to previous numerical results. Our results support the conjectured universal upper bound of the energy diffusion $D \,\le\, ω_{\text{eq}}/k_{\text{eq}}^2 \,:=\, v_{\text{eq}}^2 \, τ_{\text{eq}}$ where $v_{\text{eq}}:= ω_{\text{eq}}/k_{\text{eq}}$ and $τ_{\text{eq}}:=ω_{\text{eq}}^{-1}$ are the velocity and the timescale associated to equilibration, implying that the breakdown of hydrodynamics sets the upper bound of the diffusion constant $D$ at low $T$.

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arXiv2021

Bound of diffusion constants from pole-skipping points: spontaneous symmetry breaking and magnetic field

We investigate the properties of pole-skipping of the sound channel in which the translational symmetry is broken explicitly or spontaneously. For this purpose, we analyze, in detail, not only the holographic axion model, but also the magnetically charged black holes with two methods: the near-horizon analysis and quasi-normal mode computations. We find that the pole-skipping points are related with the chaotic properties, Lyapunov exponent ($λ_L$) and butterfly velocity ($v_B$), independently of the symmetry breaking patterns. We show that the diffusion constant ($D$) is bounded by $D \,\geqslant\, v_{B}^2/λ_{L}$, where $D$ is the energy diffusion (crystal diffusion) bound for explicit (spontaneous) symmetry breaking. We confirm that the lower bound is obtained by the pole-skipping analysis in the low temperature limit.

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arXiv2021

Holographic teleportation in higher dimensions

We study higher-dimensional traversable wormholes in the context of Rindler-AdS/CFT. The hyperbolic slicing of a pure AdS geometry can be thought of as a topological black hole that is dual to a conformal field theory in the hyperbolic space. The maximally extended geometry contains two exterior regions (the Rindler wedges of AdS) which are connected by a wormhole. We show that this wormhole can be made traversable by a double trace deformation that violates the average null energy condition (ANEC) in the bulk. We find an analytic formula for the ANEC violation that generalizes Gao-Jafferis-Wall result to higher-dimensional cases, and we show that the same result can be obtained using the eikonal approximation. We show that the bound on the amount of information that can be transferred through the wormhole quickly reduces as we increase the dimensionality of spacetime. We also compute a two-sided commutator that diagnoses traversability and show that, under certain conditions, the information that is transferred through the wormhole propagates with butterfly speed $v_B = \frac{1}{d-1}$.

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arXiv2021

Holographic scalar and vector exchange in OTOCs and pole-skipping phenomena

We study scalar and vector exchange terms in out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) holographically. By applying a computational method in graviton exchange, we analyze exponential behaviors in scalar and vector exchange terms at late times. We show that their exponential behaviors in simple holographic models are related to pole-skipping points obtained from the near-horizon equations of motion of scalar and vector fields. Our results are generalizations of the relation between the graviton exchange effect in OTOCs and the pole-skipping phenomena of the dual operator, to scalar and vector fields.

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