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Pith's one-line read This paper claims that, in a holographic conformal field theory undergoing a sudden energy quench, an out-of-time-order correlator with one pair of operators inserted before the quench and one after it produces a butterfly cone that opens…

desk verdict Genuinely new transient superluminal butterfly velocity in a quenched holographic CFT, with the caveat that the causality-preserving turnaround is a conjecture pending the uncomputed BTZ+ shock-wave evolution. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.08955 v2 pith:P4UIUZAX submitted 2019-08-23 hep-th cond-mat.stat-mech

Vijay Balasubramanian , Ben Craps , Marine De Clerck , Kévin Nguyen This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-thcond-mat.stat-mech MSC 81T4083C5783C8081T20
keywords holographicchaosOTOCBTZ-VaidyabutterflyvelocitysuperluminalpropagationquantumquencheikonalphaseLyapunovexponent
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The reading

The paper computes chaos diagnostics in a holographic conformal field theory that is suddenly heated by an energy injection. Using a position-space WKB and shock-wave approximation, it evaluates out-of-time-order correlators in the BTZ-Vaidya geometry, where the initial and final black hole temperatures differ. When one pair of operators is inserted before the quench and the other after it, the commutator-squared growth is controlled by a new eikonal phase: the butterfly cone expands at speed $r_+/r_- > 1$, while Lyapunov exponents saturate the local chaos bounds set by each temperature. The superluminal opening is transient; the paper argues that contour lines bend back so that causality is preserved. In the limiting case of a vacuum initial state, chaos growth switches on only after the quench.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the eikonal phase shift $\delta$ produced when two highly energetic geodesics, the WKB images of the boundary operators, gravitationally interact through shock waves. In BTZ-Vaidya, the gluing of two planar BTZ black holes of horizon radii $r_-$ and $r_+$ along a null shell, the saddle-point geodesics are radial null rays: the ingoing one sits at $v = t_-$, and the outgoing one has its BTZ$_-$ segment at $u = \bar{u}$ given by (3.45). The phase displayed in (3.53) combines the pre-quench accumulated growth $e^{r_- v_s}$ with the post-quench growth $e^{r_+(t_+-v_s)}$, and it is the object from which the butterfly velocity and the local Lyapunov exponents are read.

What would settle it

Solve the linearized shock-wave evolution across the shell in the BTZ+ region, the hatched region of Figs. 6-7, and evaluate the full eikonal phase there; if the $\delta = 1$ contour reaches $|x| > t - t_-$, or if the superluminal slope $r_+/r_-$ persists beyond the regime where condition (3.52) holds, the paper's causality-preserving claim fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is the cross-quench OTOC: for $t_- < v_s < t_+$ and transverse separation satisfying condition (3.52), both eikonal interactions occur in BTZ$_-$, and the normalized OTOC equals the eikonal phase given in (3.53). In the regime $r_+(t_+-v_s) \gg 1$ and $r_-(v_s-|x|) \gg 1$, this gives $\mathcal{D} \sim \exp\left[2\left(r_+(t_+-v_s)-r_-|x|+r_-v_s\right)\right]$. Reading off the constant-slope contour yields the butterfly velocity $v_B = r_+/r_- > 1$, with Lyapunov exponents $\lambda_\pm = r_\pm = 2\pi/\beta_\pm$ saturating the chaos bound at each local temperature. The paper also recovers the standard light-cone butterfly structure when all insertions lie on the same side of the shell, and quadratic slow scrambling before the quench in the $r_- \to 0$ vacuum limit.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that, for the operator separations selected, both shock-wave interactions happen in the cooler pre-quench black-hole region, and that the two large-time limits used to read off the cone are legitimate; the paper leaves the complementary region uncomputed, so the claim that the cone bends back inside the lightcone is not derived from the equations shown.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • When all four operators are inserted before the quench, the standard lightlike butterfly cone and the maximal Lyapunov exponent set by the initial temperature are recovered.
  • With one pair before and one after the quench, and small transverse separation, the chaos front initially expands at the ratio of the two horizon radii, which is faster than light.
  • Lyapunov growth in the cross-quench channel saturates the local chaos bound at each temperature, accumulating before the quench and continuing after it.
  • The paper argues that the superluminal opening is transient: the contour lines bend upward near the uncomputed region, so the commutator squared stays zero outside the lightcone and no signal travels faster than light.
  • In the vacuum-initial-state limit the commutator growth is slow and quadratic before the quench, and only becomes exponential after it, with no ballistic regime.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An explicit testable extension would be to solve the shock-wave interaction in the hotter post-quench region; a direct numerical solution could show whether the superluminal cone persists or bends back, since the paper's argument does not cover that region.
  • The velocity $r_+/r_-$ suggests a simple rule: the transient front speed is the ratio of final to initial horizon radii, so hotter final states should produce larger superluminal kicks for the same quench; the paper leaves this parameter scan implicit.
  • The same eikonal machinery could be applied to other information-spreading probes, such as entanglement or information velocities, predicting analogous superluminal transients in a quenched holographic state; these are not computed here.
  • If a strongly coupled 1+1 CFT can be simulated with cold atoms, the predicted transient front speed exceeding the light-cone speed after a quench is a concrete experimental signature, provided the bend-back remains visible on accessible timescales.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper studies out-of-time-order correlators in BTZ-Vaidya spacetimes, which holographically describe thermal CFT states undergoing a sudden global energy injection. The authors develop a position-space WKB formulation of the OTOC in general asymptotically AdS spacetimes, reducing it to an eikonal phase shift associated with the gravitational interaction of a single pair of highly energetic geodesics (Eq. (2.23) and the saddle-point result (3.13)). They apply this to BTZ-Vaidya and AdS3-Vaidya, obtaining explicit eikonal phases in several regimes: both operator pairs before the shell (Eq. (3.51)), one pair before and one after the shell when the interaction occurs in BTZ- (Eq. (3.53)), and the corresponding AdS3-Vaidya formulas (Eqs. (3.56), (3.59)). The central findings are that the Lyapunov exponents saturate the local chaos bounds set by the two inverse temperatures, and that, when one operator pair precedes the quench and the other follows it, the butterfly cone expands with velocity v_B = r_+/r_- > 1 (Eq. (4.8)). The paper further claims that this superluminal spreading does not violate causality because the cone bends back inside the lightcone near the hatched regions of Figs. 6-7.

Significance. If the derived results hold, the paper constitutes a significant extension of holographic chaos computations to time-dependent, far-from-equilibrium backgrounds. The position-space WKB formula and the explicit shock-wave construction in Appendix C are useful technical contributions, and the extracted formulas are parameter-free and provide concrete predictions for transient superluminal butterfly velocities and local Lyapunov saturation. The paper also recovers known thermal and vacuum results in the appropriate limits, which is a healthy cross-check. The main weakness is that the causality-preserving bending of the butterfly cone is not derived from the presented equations: it lies in the hatched regions where the shock-wave evolution across the shell is explicitly left uncomputed. Thus the headline physical interpretation is partly conjectural, although the superluminal velocity itself is derived in a clearly stated asymptotic regime.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 4 and App. C.3-C.4]
  2. [Sec. 4, Eqs. (4.5)-(4.8)]
  3. [Sec. 3.2, Eqs. (3.42)-(3.45)]
minor comments (3)
  1. [Eq. (3.33)]
  2. [Fig. 8 caption]
  3. [Sec. 4, after Eq. (4.3)]

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 0.0 of 10

No significant circularity: the OTOC/eikonal derivation is self-contained, with an honest uncomputed region that is a completeness limitation, not a circular step.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is not circular. The eikonal phase (3.53) is obtained from shock-wave solutions in Appendix C, specifically from (C.17)/(C.27), combined with the saddle-point geodesic values (3.24), (3.45), and the momentum (3.48). The asymptotic result (4.5) is then obtained by taking the stated limits r_+(t-vs)>>1 and r_-(vs-|x|)>>1 and simplifying the algebra; no parameter is fitted to the target OTOC, and no predicted quantity is defined in terms of the quantity it is supposed to explain. The Lyapunov exponents r_+- and the superluminal slope r_+/r_- emerge from horizon radii and the geodesic/eikonal computation rather than being inserted by hand. The paper does cite prior work by overlapping authors, notably [16-19], [25], and [29], but these citations supply standard background technology (near-boundary extrapolation, eikonal methods, geodesic junction conditions) rather than the central result; the OTOC formula and the BTZ-Vaidya eikonal phase are computed in the paper. The paper also explicitly flags the region where its formula is unavailable: Sec. 3.3 states that when (3.52) is not satisfied one must evolve the shock wave across the shell into BTZ+, and Appendix C.3 repeats that this computation goes beyond the scope of the paper. The associated statement that the butterfly cone bends back so as not to violate causality is therefore not derived in the hatched region, and Appendix C.4 acknowledges that the two eikonal contributions may differ substantially there. This is an unsupported claim or a correctness/completeness risk, but it is not circularity: it is a missing computation, not an input disguised as a prediction. No self-citation chain forces the result, and no uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors' prior work. The verdict is therefore no significant circularity, with a score of 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new entities are introduced; the shock waves, geodesics, and BTZ-Vaidya geometry are standard holographic objects. The physical inputs r_-, r_+, GN, mV, mW, ε, and v_s are parameters of the setup, not numbers fitted to data. The load-bearing assumptions are the WKB approximation, the eikonal approximation, and the stationary-phase reduction, all stated or discussed in the text.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption AdS/CFT correspondence: boundary CFT correlators are dual to bulk gravitational computations.
    Used throughout; the OTOC (2.1) is evaluated as a bulk overlap in an asymptotically AdS spacetime (Sections 1-2).
  • domain assumption WKB/geodesic approximation for massive bulk scalars, including near-boundary high-energy propagators.
    Introduced in Section 2 and Appendix B; valid only for large masses, and the limitations are acknowledged in Section 4.
  • domain assumption Eikonal/shock-wave approximation at leading order in GN, with linearized backreaction and neglect of shock-wave self-interactions.
    Used in Section 2, Eqs. (2.17)-(2.19), and Appendix C; this is the basis for the eikonal phase shift δ.
  • domain assumption Stationary phase (saddle point) reduction of the integrals (3.10)-(3.12) to a single pair of radial geodesics.
    Sections 3.1-3.2; the uniqueness of the saddle is stated to be checked numerically rather than proven.
  • domain assumption Junction conditions for geodesics crossing the Vaidya shell, namely continuity of xdot and vdot in Eqs. (3.33)-(3.36).
    Used in Section 3.2 to connect BTZ+ and BTZ- geodesic segments; cited to prior literature [27-29].

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Thermal states holographically dual to black holes in Einstein gravity display maximal Lyapunov growth as well as "butterfly effect cones". We study these effects in highly non-equilibrium states, obtained from an initial thermal state by the sudden injection of energy. We do this by computing out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in BTZ-Vaidya spacetimes, which describe transitions between black holes at different temperatures. If both pairs of boundary operators appearing in the OTOC are inserted before the energy injection, we recover standard results, with butterfly effect cones displaying a light-cone structure. But when one pair of operators is inserted before and the other pair after the energy injection, the Lyapunov growth saturates the chaos bounds set by the local temperatures and the butterfly effect cones "open up", becoming superluminal, albeit in a way that does not violate causality. In the limiting case, in which the initial state is the vacuum, Lyapunov growth only starts after the energy injection. Our computations of the OTOCs are phrased in terms of gravitationally interacting particles, where fields are treated in a geodesic approximation and the eikonal phase shift is expressed in terms of stress tensors and shock waves associated to geodesics.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. (a) The bulk picture of the in-state. This state has a simple interpretation at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Penrose diagram of BTZ-Vaidya. This decay is controlled by the lowest quasinormal mode frequency ωQN = 2π β ∆V associated to the light operator V of conformal dimension ∆V [15]. This shows that dissipative effects eventually take over the chaotic Lyapunov growth. In this paper, we investigate the chaotic behavior of a system in the process of ther￾malization by holographically computing OTOCs in a thermal state unde… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. (a) When all the operators are inserted after the quench, the situation is very [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) The operator φV (X1) is represented on a future null slice Σu0 in terms of the operator φV (Xu0 ) integrated over the point Xu0 ∈ Σu0 . The enclosing surface ∂V is indicated in light green. (b) The operator φW (X4) is similarly represented on a past null slice Σv0 …
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The region accessible to timelike geodesics connected to the insertion point [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Contour plots of the eikonal phase shift [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Contour plots of the eikonal phase shift [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_7.png]
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Contour plot of one of the contributions to the eikonal phase shift [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_8.png]

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