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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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Quantum scars from holographic boson stars

hep-th · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

Mini-boson stars in AdS spacetime are proposed as holographic realizations of quantum scars, exhibiting chaotic spectra with integrable subsectors, anomalously low entanglement, and robust Krylov complexity revivals.

Thermal two-point functions in SYK and complex-time singularities

hep-th · 2026-07-06 · conditional · novelty 6.0

The large-N SYK thermal two-point function exhibits complex-time singularities—an effective-temperature pole and a subleading bouncing-geodesic-like singularity—that persist from infinite to zero temperature.

Black Holes and Random Variables

hep-th · 2026-07-02 · conditional · novelty 6.0

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Controlled Chaos in 4D SCFTs

hep-th · 2026-06-22 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Orbifolds of N=4 SYM produce SCFTs whose dilatation operator in a subsector is realized by a tunable spin chain whose eigenvalue statistics exhibit chaos for specific marginal couplings.

Pseudorandom Dynamics in the SYK Model and Cryptographic Censorship in JT Gravity

hep-th · 2026-05-24 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

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hep-ph · 2026-05-21 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Scale-invariant open quantum systems are universally described by unparticle baths with scaling dimension d_U, producing non-Markovian kernels, a fractional Caldeira-Leggett master equation, and phase transitions at d_U = 3/2, 2, and 5/2.

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