Thermal diffusivity and chaos in holographic metals

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Abstract

We study the thermal diffusivity in holographic models of strange metals. The properties of these metals are related to the properties of gravitational theories in a higher-dimensional curved spacetime. Near generic infra red fixed points of these models, we find that the thermal diffusivity is related to the parameters characterising many-body chaos. This is true independently of the charge density, magnetic field, or periodic potential strength, and is a consequence of a universal feature of certain black hole horizons.

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Presenters

  • Richard Davison

    Harvard University, Harvard Univ

Authors

  • Richard Davison

    Harvard University, Harvard Univ

  • Subir Sachdev

    Harvard University, Physics, Harvard University, Harvard Univ, Physics, Harvard Univ, Department of Physics, Harvard University

  • Mike Blake

    MIT