Universal Diffusion and the Butterfly Effect

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• Mike Blake, DAMTP
• Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00
• Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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One of the great mysteries about strongly correlated materials is that their transport properties seem to be universal. For instance, a linear resistivity is ubiquitious to many materials whose microscopic physics and scattering mechanisms can vary immensely. In this talk I will discuss how universality can arise in the diffusion constants of holographic theories. In particular I will show that in many holographic theories diffusion is universally related to the so-called `butterfly effect’. This work suggests a potential new connection between transport at strong coupling and the field of quantum chaos.

This talk is part of the Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars series.

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