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The local two-dimensional Poincaré algebra near the horizon of an eternal AdS black hole, or in proximity to any bifurcate Killing horizon, is generated by the Killing flow and outward null translations on the horizon. In holography, this local Poincaré algebra is reflected as a pair of unitary flows in the boundary Hilbert space whose generators under modular flow grow and decay exponentially with a maximal Lyapunov exponent. This is a universal feature of many geometric vacua of quantum gravity. To explain this universality, we show that a two-dimensional Poincaré algebra emerges in any quantum system that has von Neumann subalgebras associated with half-infinite modular time intervals (modular future and past subalgebras) in a limit analogous to the near-horizon limit. In ergodic theory, quantum dynamical systems with future or past algebras are called quantum K-systems. The surprising statement is that modular K-systems are always maximally chaotic.
Interacting quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit and large N theories above the Hawking-Page phase transition are examples of physical theories with future/past subalgebras. We prove that the existence of (modular) future/past von Neumann subalgebras also implies a second law of (modular) thermodynamics and the exponential decay of (modular) correlators. We generalize our results from the modular flow to any dynamical flow with a positive generator and interpret the positivity condition as quantum detailed balance.
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We thank Thomas Faulkner and Elliott Gesteau who pointed us to the literature on quantum Anosov systems. We also thank Yidong Chen, Hong Liu, and Sasha Zhiboedov for insightful conversations. SO is also thankful to Amit Vikram for pointing him to literature on ergodicity. The authors are grateful to the DOE that supported this work through grant DE-SC0007884 and the QuantISED Fermilab consortium.
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Ouseph, S., Furuya, K., Lashkari, N. et al. Local Poincaré algebra from quantum chaos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 112 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2024)112
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