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A bound on chaos

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We conjecture a sharp bound on the rate of growth of chaos in thermal quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom. Chaos can be diagnosed using an out-of-time-order correlation function closely related to the commutator of operators separated in time. We conjecture that the influence of chaos on this correlator can develop no faster than exponentially, with Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_L \le 2 \pi k_B T/\hbar$. We give a precise mathematical argument, based on plausible physical assumptions, establishing this conjecture.

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q-Askey Deformations of Double-Scaled SYK

hep-th · 2026-05-13 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

q-Askey deformations of double-scaled SYK yield transfer matrices for orthogonal polynomials whose semiclassical chord dynamics map to ER bridges and new geometric transitions in sine dilaton gravity.

Universal bound on the Lyapunov spectrum of quantum master equations

quant-ph · 2025-10-22 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

New proof via Lyapunov exponents that the largest decay rate Γ_max in a d-dimensional quantum master equation satisfies Γ_max ≤ κ_d times the sum of the other d²-1 decay rates, with κ_d depending only on d and the map class.

Spectral Form Factor of Gapped Random Matrix Systems

hep-th · 2026-01-28 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

In gapped random matrix systems with parametrically many degenerate ground states, the spectral form factor at low temperatures is dominated by the disconnected contribution at all times, while the connected form factor depends only on the non-degenerate eigenvalues.

Searching for emergent spacetime in spin glasses

hep-th · 2025-10-23 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Spectral functions of SYK, p-spin, and SU(M) Heisenberg models show exponential tails in spin-glass phases and quasiparticle families in spin-liquid phases, with a proof that exponential decay blocks detection of bulk causal structure.

Random matrix theory signatures in free field theory

hep-th · 2025-07-24 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

In finite-volume massive free scalar field theory after local quench, spacing ratios of two-point function extrema follow GOE statistics and an extrema-based form factor shows RMT dip-ramp-plateau.

Quantum scars from holographic boson stars

hep-th · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Asymptotically AdS mini-boson stars exhibit scar-like states with random-matrix chaos signatures, embedded integrable branches, low entanglement, and Krylov complexity revivals, unlike thermal black holes.

Yang-Mills Flux Tube in AdS II: Effective String Theory

hep-th · 2026-02-18 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Two-loop effective string theory observables for Yang-Mills flux tubes in large-radius AdS are computed via transcendentality ansatz bootstrap, with Padé resummation used to probe interpolation toward small-radius weak-coupling AdS.

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    Bootstrap on Mellin amplitudes computes the first stringy correction to the five-point 20' correlator in N=4 SYM up to one undetermined coefficient, with flat-space limit checks and byproduct four-point results.

  • Information Propagation in Rydberg Arrays via Analog OTOC Calculations quant-ph · 2026-04-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 2

    A randomized quench protocol enables the first fully analog measurement of infinite-temperature OTOCs on Rydberg atom arrays, revealing information propagation lightcones.

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    q-Askey deformations of double-scaled SYK yield transfer matrices for orthogonal polynomials whose semiclassical chord dynamics map to ER bridges and new geometric transitions in sine dilaton gravity.

  • Towards a Refinement of Krylov Complexity: Scrambling, Classical Operator Growth and Replicas hep-th · 2026-03-19 · unverdicted · none · ref 23 · internal anchor

    LogK complexity via replicas distinguishes genuine scrambling from saddle effects in quantum and classical systems and refines the measure for integrable cases.

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    Tensor network simulations of the Ising model on hyperbolic lattices with coordination number 7 reveal power-law boundary spin correlations in the disordered phase and logarithmic boundary entanglement entropy at criticality, consistent with holography.

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    Modular flow in SYK models coupled to a bath reveals singularities allowing reconstruction of bulk flow past the horizon in two-sided AdS2 black holes.

  • Universal bound on the Lyapunov spectrum of quantum master equations quant-ph · 2025-10-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 19 · internal anchor

    New proof via Lyapunov exponents that the largest decay rate Γ_max in a d-dimensional quantum master equation satisfies Γ_max ≤ κ_d times the sum of the other d²-1 decay rates, with κ_d depending only on d and the map class.

  • The Free Particle--Oscillator--Inverted Oscillator Triangle: Conformal Bridges, Metaplectic Rotations and $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2)$ Structure hep-th · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 3

    The free particle, harmonic oscillator, and inverted oscillator are unified as parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic realizations of the same conformal module, with explicit mappings between their states, coherent states, and scattering data via metaplectic rotations and Mellin transforms.

  • Quantum mechanical bootstrap without inequalities: SYK bilinear spectrum hep-th · 2026-04-28 · unverdicted · none · ref 29

    Fractional operator powers generate non-positivity constraints that determine the SYK bilinear spectrum and converge to exact eigenvalues under truncation.

  • Stochastic Krylov Dynamics: Revisiting Operator Growth in Open Quantum Systems hep-th · 2026-04-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 5

    In open quantum systems, environmental coupling turns deterministic Krylov phase-space trajectories into stochastic ones by adding diffusion, destroying the hyperbolic mechanism for exponential complexity growth beyond a controlled scale.

  • Probing bulk geometry via pole skipping: from static to rotating spacetimes gr-qc · 2026-04-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 8

    Pole-skipping data encodes enough information to reconstruct the full metric of 3D rotating black holes and the radial functions of 4D separable rotating black holes, with Einstein equations becoming algebraic constraints on that data.

  • Unitary Designs from Two Chaotic Hamiltonians and a Random Pauli Operation quant-ph · 2026-04-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 6

    Unitary designs emerge from the temporal ensemble of two chaotic Hamiltonian evolutions separated by a random Pauli operation, based on the universal Pauli spectrum.

  • No chaos required: traversable wormhole signals survive 98% coupling deletion quant-ph · 2026-05-13 · accept · none · ref 4 · internal anchor

    The traversable wormhole transmission signal in coupled SYK models persists with less than 1.1% variation after 98% random coupling deletion, showing it is controlled by inter-system coupling alone.

  • Butterflies in $\textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}}$ deformed anomalous CFT$_2$ hep-th · 2026-05-12 · unverdicted · none · ref 30 · internal anchor

    In TTbar-deformed anomalous CFT2 the chaos bound stays saturated while butterfly velocity depends nontrivially on deformation strength and anomaly, with a Hagedorn regime where the chaotic response turns complex.

  • Deforming the Double-Scaled SYK & Reaching the Stretched Horizon From Finite Cutoff Holography hep-th · 2026-02-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 144 · internal anchor

    Deformations of the double-scaled SYK model via finite-cutoff holography produce Krylov complexity as wormhole length and realize Susskind's stretched horizon proposal through targeted T² deformations in the high-energy spectrum.

  • Spectral Form Factor of Gapped Random Matrix Systems hep-th · 2026-01-28 · unverdicted · none · ref 23 · internal anchor

    In gapped random matrix systems with parametrically many degenerate ground states, the spectral form factor at low temperatures is dominated by the disconnected contribution at all times, while the connected form factor depends only on the non-degenerate eigenvalues.

  • The Maximal Entanglement Limit in Statistical and High Energy Physics quant-ph · 2026-01-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 4 · internal anchor

    Quantum systems reach a Maximal Entanglement Limit where entanglement geometry produces thermal reduced density matrices and probabilistic behavior in statistical and high-energy physics.

  • Searching for emergent spacetime in spin glasses hep-th · 2025-10-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 22 · internal anchor

    Spectral functions of SYK, p-spin, and SU(M) Heisenberg models show exponential tails in spin-glass phases and quasiparticle families in spin-liquid phases, with a proof that exponential decay blocks detection of bulk causal structure.

  • Bootstrapping transport in the Drude-Kadanoff-Martin model hep-th · 2025-09-22 · accept · none · ref 77 · internal anchor

    Derives lower bound on collective mean free path ℓ = √(τ D) in Drude-Kadanoff-Martin model from Green's function bounds, implying Mott-Ioffe-Regel limit for lattice models.

  • Entanglement spreading and emergent locality in Brownian SYK chains hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 21 · internal anchor

    In a Brownian SYK chain at strong coupling, information from an injected qudit spreads inside a sharp light-cone at the butterfly velocity because the governing dynamics reduce to FKPP domain walls.

  • Random matrix theory signatures in free field theory hep-th · 2025-07-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 6 · internal anchor

    In finite-volume massive free scalar field theory after local quench, spacing ratios of two-point function extrema follow GOE statistics and an extrema-based form factor shows RMT dip-ramp-plateau.

  • Quantum scars from holographic boson stars hep-th · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 8

    Asymptotically AdS mini-boson stars exhibit scar-like states with random-matrix chaos signatures, embedded integrable branches, low entanglement, and Krylov complexity revivals, unlike thermal black holes.

  • Cosmological brick walls & quantum chaotic dynamics of de Sitter horizons hep-th · 2026-03-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 34

    Brick-wall spectra in de Sitter space show long-range chaotic signatures via spectral form factor and Krylov complexity even when conventional level repulsion is absent.

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    Two-loop effective string theory observables for Yang-Mills flux tubes in large-radius AdS are computed via transcendentality ansatz bootstrap, with Padé resummation used to probe interpolation toward small-radius weak-coupling AdS.

  • Probing the Chaos to Integrability Transition in Double-Scaled SYK hep-th · 2026-01-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 100 · internal anchor

    A first-order phase transition in the Berkooz-Brukner-Jia-Mamroud interpolating model causes chord number, Krylov complexity, and operator size to switch discontinuously from chaotic (linear/exponential) to quasi-integrable (quadratic) growth.

  • OTOC and Quamtum Chaos of Interacting Scalar Fields hep-th · 2025-12-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 5 · internal anchor

    Discretized λφ⁴ theory yields thermal OTOC with exponential growth and Lyapunov exponent scaling as T^{1/4}, showing quantum chaos signatures at low perturbative orders in the oscillator chain.

  • Complexity of Quadratic Quantum Chaos hep-th · 2025-09-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 9 · internal anchor

    Hard-core boson two-body models with random interactions exhibit chaotic spectral statistics, operator growth, and eigenstate properties approaching those of random matrices and the SYK model.

  • Real-Time Quantum Dynamics on the Fuzzy Sphere: Chaos and Entanglement hep-th · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 6

    In this fuzzy-sphere matrix model the largest Lyapunov exponent drops to zero at finite temperature, respecting the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford bound while entanglement shows fast scrambling.

  • Holographic Brownian dynamics of a heavy particle in a boosted thermal plasma background hep-th · 2025-09-25 · unverdicted · none · ref 76 · internal anchor

    Holographic calculation of longitudinal and transverse diffusion coefficients for Brownian motion in a boosted AdS black brane, with verification of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and expression of the coefficients via butterfly velocity.

  • Effect of non-conformal deformation on the gapped quasi-normal modes and the holographic implications hep-th · 2025-06-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 70 · internal anchor

    Non-conformal deformation via Einstein-dilaton gravity increases the radius of convergence of the derivative expansion for gapped quasinormal modes of a scalar operator in the holographic dual.

  • Fractionalized Fermi liquids and the cuprate phase diagram cond-mat.str-el · 2025-08-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 210 · internal anchor

    Reviews the FL* theory for cuprates using ancilla layer models and SU(2) gauge theories to explain pseudogap hole pockets of area p/8, Fermi arcs, and transitions to d-wave superconductivity and Fermi liquid behavior.

  • Krylov Complexity hep-th · 2025-07-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 215 · internal anchor

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  • Quantum chaos and the holographic principle quant-ph · 2026-04-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 58

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