Out-of-time-ordered correlators and purity in rational conformal field theories
Feb 21, 2016
10 pages
Published in:
- PTEP 2016 (2016) 11, 113B06
- Published: Nov 16, 2016
e-Print:
- 1602.06542 [hep-th]
DOI:
Report number:
- NORDITA-2016-6,
- YITP-16-10
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Abstract: (Oxford University Press)
In this paper we investigate measures of chaos and entanglement in rational conformal field theories in 1 + 1 dimensions. First, we derive a formula for the late time value of the out-of-time-ordered correlators for this class of theories. Our universal result can be expressed as a particular combination of the modular S-matrix elements known as anyon monodromy scalar. Next, in the explicit setup of an SU(N)k Wess–Zumino–Witten model, we compare the late time behavior of the out-of-time-ordered correlators and the purity. Interestingly, in the large-c limit, the purity grows logarithmically as in holographic theories; in contrast, the out-of-time-ordered correlators remain, in general, nonvanishing.Note:
- Minor typographical error corrected. Matches published version
- Quantum information
- AdS/CFT correspondence
- Topological field theory
- General
- Theoretical Particle Physics
- field theory: conformal: rational
- central charge
- field theory: topological
- S-matrix: modular
- dimension: 2
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