Holographic order from modular chaos

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Publication date 06-2020
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Article number 024
Volume | Issue number 2020 | 6
Number of pages 23
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

We argue for an exponential bound characterizing the chaotic properties of modular Hamiltonian flow of QFT subsystems. In holographic theories, maximal modular chaos is reflected in the local Poincare symmetry about a Ryu-Takayanagi surface. Generators of null deformations of the bulk extremal surface map to modular scrambling modes — positive CFT operators saturating the bound — and their algebra probes the bulk Riemann curvature, clarifying the modular Berry curvature proposal of arXiv:1903.04493.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2020)024
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