Note on the butterfly effect in holographic superconductor models
arXiv:1610.07146 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.03.010
Abstract
In this note we remark that the butterfly effect can be used to diagnose the phase transition of superconductivity in a holographic framework. Specifically, we compute the butterfly velocity in a charged black hole background as well as anisotropic backgrounds with Q-lattice structure. In both cases we find its derivative to the temperature is discontinuous at critical points. We also propose that the butterfly velocity can signalize the occurrence of thermal phase transition in general holographic models.
10 pages, 4 figures; minor revision, one figure added, journal reference added