Disorder in gauge/gravity duality, pole spectrum statistics and random matrix theory

In condensed-matter, level statistics has long been used to characterize the phases of a disordered system. We provide evidence within the context of a simple model that in a disordered large-N gauge theory with a gravity dual, there exist phases where the nearest neighbor spacing distribution of the unfolded pole spectra of generic two-point correlators is Poisson. This closely resembles the localized phase of the Anderson Hamiltonian. We perform two tests on our statistical hypothesis. One is based on a statistic defined in the context of random matrix theory, the so-called , or spectral rigidity, proposed by Dyson and Mehta. The second is a χ-squared test. In our model, the results of both tests are consistent with the hypothesis that the pole spectra of two-point functions can be at least in two distinct phases; first a regular sequence and second a completely uncorrelated sequence with a Poisson nearest neighbor spacing distribution.