Published August 21, 2024 | Version v1
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All holographic systems have scar states

  • 1. University of California-Santa Barbara, Physics Department, Broida Hall, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
  • 2. Princeton University, Physics Department, Jadwin Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA

Description

Scar states are special finite-energy density, but nonthermal states of chaotic Hamiltonians. We argue that all holographic quantum field theories, including N=4 super Yang-Mills, have scar states. Their presence is tied to the existence of nontopological, horizonless soliton solutions in gravity; oscillons and a novel family of excited boson stars. We demonstrate that these solutions have periodic oscillations in the correlation functions and posses low-entanglement entropy as expected for scar states. Also we find that they can be very easily prepared with Euclidean path integral.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.110.046023;
arXiv
arXiv:2307.11348;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100000181; 10.13039/100005595;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
14 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
FA9550-19-1-0360
Notes
Contact Email: Contact author: milekhin@ucsb.edu, maybe.alexey@gmail.com; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Air Force Office of Scientific Research; University of California