Chaotic spin chains in AdS/CFT
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- JHEP09(2022)240
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We consider the spectrum of anomalous dimensions in planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and its N = 1 super-conformal Leigh-Strassler deformations. The two-loop truncation of the integrable N = 4 dilatation operator in the SU(2) sector, which is a next-to-nearest-neighbour deformation of the XXX spin chain, is not strictly integrable at finite coupling and we show that it indeed has Wigner-Dyson level statistics. However, we find that it is only weakly chaotic in the sense that the cross-over to chaotic dynamics is slower than for generic chaotic systems.
For the Leigh-Strassler deformed theory with generic parameters, we show that the one-loop dilatation operator in the SU(3) sector is chaotic, with a spectrum that is well described by GUE Random Matrix Theory. For the imaginary-beta deformation, the statistics are GOE and the transition from the integrable limit is that of a generic system. This provides a weak-coupling analogue of the chaotic dynamics seen for classical strings in the dual background.
We further study the spin chains in the semi-classical limit described by generalised Landau-Lifshitz models, which are also known to describe large-angular-momentum string solutions in the dual theory. We show that for the higher-derivative theory following from the two-loop N = 4 SU(2) spin chain, the maximal Lyapunov exponent is close to zero, consistent with the absence of chaotic dynamics. For the imaginary-beta SU(3) theory, the resulting Landau-Lifshitz model has classically chaotic dynamics at finite values of the deformation parameter.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 240 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 2022 |
Issue number | 9 |
Number of pages | 45 |
ISSN | 1029-8479 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 29 Sep 2022 |
- AdS-CFT Correspondence, Integrable Field Theories, Supersymmetric Gauge Theory, DILATATION OPERATOR, INTEGRABILITY, STRINGS, DEFORMATIONS, DUALITY, STATES, SYM
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