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We present a semiclassical proof of the weak gravity conjecture in $D = 4$ spacetime dimensions for scalar matter gauged under a $U(1)^N$ gauge group. We compute the non-perturbative macroscopic entropy of a scalar field in an extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-18 Zachary Fisher , Christopher J. Mogni

Quantum field theory in a semiclassical background can be derived as an approximation to quantum gravity from a weak-coupling expansion in the inverse Planck mass. Such an expansion is studied for evolution on "nice-slices" in the spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven B. Giddings

The growth of the "size" of operators is an important diagnostic of quantum chaos. In arXiv:1802.01198 [hep-th] it was conjectured that the holographic dual of the size is proportional to the average radial component of the momentum of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Adam R. Brown , Hrant Gharibyan , Alexandre Streicher , Leonard Susskind , Larus Thorlacius , Ying Zhao

The thermodynamic and euclidean functional integral approaches to black hole entropy are discussed. The existence of some freedom in the definition of the entropy is pointed out and the possibility of a departure from the semiclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Mitra

In this paper, we investigate the effect of supersymmetry on the symmetry classification of random matrix theory ensembles. We mainly consider the random matrix behaviors in the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Tianlin Li , Junyu Liu , Yuan Xin , Yehao Zhou

Understanding how quantum chaotic systems generate entanglement can provide insight into their microscopic chaotic dynamics and can help distinguish between different classes of chaotic behavior. Using von Neumann entanglement entropy, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Tanay Pathak , Masaki Tezuka

We investigate the entanglement entropy and the information flow of two-dimensional moving mirrors. Here we point out that various mirror trajectories can help to mimic different candidate resolutions to the information loss paradox…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Pisin Chen , Dong-han Yeom

We aim to quantify the distribution of information in the Hawking radiation and inside the black hole in the semiclassical evaporation process. The structure quantum field theory forces to consider a shared information between two different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 H. Casini

For any non-rotating effective quantum (uncharged) black hole model to be viable, its asymptotic structure of spacetime should reduce to that of a Schwarzschild black hole. After examining the asymptotic structure of quantum black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Suddhasattwa Brahma , Che-Yu Chen , Pisin Chen , Dong-han Yeom

Black hole normal modes have intriguing connections to logarithmic spectra, and the spectral form factor (SFF) of $E_n = \log n$ is the mod square of the Riemann zeta function (RZF). In this paper, we first provide an analytic understanding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-02 Pallab Basu , Suman Das , Chethan Krishnan

Nonperturbative formulation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is discussed. The partition function of the model can be represented as a functional integral over the Grassmann variables in Euclidean time which is well defined but it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Irina Aref'eva , Igor Volovich

We study properties of the Petz recovery map in chaotic systems, such as the Hayden-Preskill setup for evaporating black holes and the SYK model. Since these systems exhibit the phenomenon called scrambling, we expect that the expression of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-31 Yasuaki Nakayama , Akihiro Miyata , Tomonori Ugajin

This survey intends to cover recent approaches to black hole entropy which attempt to go beyond the standard semiclassical perspective. Quantum corrections to the semiclassical Bekenstein-Hawking area law for black hole entropy, obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Parthasarathi Majumdar

In this article we explore the origin of black hole thermodynamics using semiclassical states in loop quantum gravity. We re-examine the case of entropy using a density matrix for a coherent state and describe correlations across the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-19 Arundhati Dasgupta

The issue of a possible damping of the entropy periodicity for large black holes in Loop Quantum Gravity is highly debated. Using a combinatorics/analysis approach, we give strong arguments in favor of this damping, at least for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiangyu Cao , Aurelien Barrau

We present a class of exact analytic and static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in the semi-classical Einstein equations with Weyl anomaly. The solutions have two branches, one is asymptotically flat and the other asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-30 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Nobuyoshi Ohta

We use complex semiclassical method to compute scattering amplitudes of a point particle in dilaton gravity with a boundary. This model has nonzero minimal black hole mass $M_{cr}$. We find that at energies below $M_{cr}$ the particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-04 Maxim Fitkevich , Dmitry Levkov , Sergey Sibiryakov

The article aims to analyze a construction of charges (conserved quantities) for the gravity field in the (3+1) decomposition. The construction is based on (3+1) splitting of conformal Yano--Killing (CYK) two-form. The splitting leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-15 Jacek Jezierski , Tomasz Smołka

We show that random matrix models are a natural tool for understanding the appearance of a large gap in the microstate spectrum of black holes when there is a high degeneracy of states, in a variety of settings. While the most natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Clifford V. Johnson , Mykhaylo Usatyuk

We investigate the $q=2$ SYK model with $R$-para-particles ($R$-PSYK$_2$), analyzing its thermodynamics and spectral form factor (SFF) using random matrix theory. The Hamiltonian is quadratic, with coupling coefficients randomly drawn from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Tingfei Li