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Title: Constraints on quasinormal modes and bounds for critical points from pole-skipping

Abstract

We consider a holographic thermal state and perturb it by a scalar operator whose associated real-time Green’s function has only gapped poles. These gapped poles correspond to the non-hydrodynamic quasinormal modes of a massive scalar perturbation around a Schwarzschild black brane. Relations between pole-skipping points, critical points and quasinormal modes in general emerge when the mass of the scalar and hence the dual operator dimension is varied. First, this novel analysis reveals a relation between the location of a mode in the infinite tower of quasinormal modes and the number of pole-skipping points constraining its dispersion relation at imaginary momenta. Second, for the first time, we consider the radii of convergence of the derivative expansions about the gapped quasinormal modes. These convergence radii turn out to be bounded from above by the set of all pole-skipping points. Furthermore, a transition between two distinct classes of critical points occurs at a particular value for the conformal dimension, implying close relations between critical points and pole-skipping points in one of those two classes. We show numerically that all of our results are also true for gapped modes of vector and tensor operators.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou (China). School of Nuclear Science and Technology
  2. Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Lanzhou University
OSTI Identifier:
1851625
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012447; 561119208
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2021; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; physics; gauge-gravity correspondence; holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)

Citation Formats

Abbasi, Navid, and Kaminski, Matthias. Constraints on quasinormal modes and bounds for critical points from pole-skipping. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep03(2021)265.
Abbasi, Navid, & Kaminski, Matthias. Constraints on quasinormal modes and bounds for critical points from pole-skipping. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2021)265
Abbasi, Navid, and Kaminski, Matthias. Mon . "Constraints on quasinormal modes and bounds for critical points from pole-skipping". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2021)265. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1851625.
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abstractNote = {We consider a holographic thermal state and perturb it by a scalar operator whose associated real-time Green’s function has only gapped poles. These gapped poles correspond to the non-hydrodynamic quasinormal modes of a massive scalar perturbation around a Schwarzschild black brane. Relations between pole-skipping points, critical points and quasinormal modes in general emerge when the mass of the scalar and hence the dual operator dimension is varied. First, this novel analysis reveals a relation between the location of a mode in the infinite tower of quasinormal modes and the number of pole-skipping points constraining its dispersion relation at imaginary momenta. Second, for the first time, we consider the radii of convergence of the derivative expansions about the gapped quasinormal modes. These convergence radii turn out to be bounded from above by the set of all pole-skipping points. Furthermore, a transition between two distinct classes of critical points occurs at a particular value for the conformal dimension, implying close relations between critical points and pole-skipping points in one of those two classes. We show numerically that all of our results are also true for gapped modes of vector and tensor operators.},
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year = {Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
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