  In this paper, we study uncharged, non-conformal, and anisotropic systems
with strong interactions using the gauge-gravity duality by considering
Einstein-Quadratic-Axion-Dilaton action in five dimensions. In fact, we would
like to gain insight into the influence of higher derivative gravity on the QCD
system. At finite temperature, we obtain an anisotropic black brane solution to
a 5D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-Axion-Dilaton system. The system has been
investigated and the effect of the parameter of theory has been considered. The
blackening function supports the thermodynamical phase transition between
small/large and AdS/large black brane for suitable parameters. We also study
transport and diffusion properties and observe in particular that the butterfly
velocity that characterizes both diffusion and growth of chaos transverse to
the anisotropic direction saturates a constant value in the IR which can exceed
the bound given by the conformal value. We also determine the imaginary part of
the heavy quark potential in a strongly coupled plasma dual to Gauss-Bonnet
gravity.
