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We investigate the connection between spacetime wormholes and ensemble averaging in the context of higher spin AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$. Using techniques from modular bootstrap combined with some holographic inputs, we evaluate the partition…

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This thesis explores the thermodynamics of the cosmological horizon, aiming to make progress towards a better understanding of the microscopic nature of its entropy. We utilise the constrained nature of low-dimensional gravity to do so and…

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In this letter, we investigate the ground state properties of an optomechanical system consisting of a coupled cavity and mechanical modes. An exact solution is given when the ratio $\eta$ between the cavity and mechanical frequencies tends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Bo Wang , Franco Nori , Ze-Liang Xiang

Topological properties of physical systems can lead to robust behaviors that are insensitive to microscopic details. Such topologically robust phenomena are not limited to static systems but can also appear in driven quantum systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Takuya Kitagawa , Erez Berg , Mark Rudner , Eugene Demler

We show the emergence of random matrix theory (RMT) spectral correlations in the chaotic phase of generic periodically kicked interacting quantum many-body systems by analytically calculating spectral form factor (SFF), $K(t)$, up to two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-07 Vijay Kumar , Tomaž Prosen , Dibyendu Roy

Continuous-variable quantum thermodynamics in the Gaussian regime provides a promising framework for investigating the energetic role of quantum correlations, particularly in optical systems. In this work, we introduce an entropy-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Beatriz Polo-Rodríguez , Federico Centrone , Gerardo Adesso , Mir Alimuddin

In this work, we study the renormalization-group evolution of parameters in the three-dimensional effective field theory (3D EFT) that describes the thermally driven electroweak phase transition of the Higgs field. We consider tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Mikael Chala , Andrii Dashko , Guilherme Guedes

In this paper we study Spectral Decomposition Theorem [1] and translate it to quantum language by means of the Wigner transform. We obtain a quantum version of Spectral Decomposition Theorem (QSDT) which enables us to achieve three distinct…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Gomez , Mario Castagnino

Critical phenomena and Goldstone mode effects in spin models with O(n) rotational symmetry are considered. Starting with the Goldstone mode singularities in the XY and O(4) models, we briefly review different theoretical concepts as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-03 J. Kaupuzs , J. Rimshans , R. V. N. Melnik

Effective field theories (EFTs) organize the description of complex systems into an infinite sequence of decreasing importance. Predictions are made with a finite number of terms, which induces a truncation error that is often left…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 J. A. Melendez , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips , M. T. Pratola , S. Wesolowski

Three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with $N$ charged fermions contains monopole operators that have been studied perturbatively at large $N$. Here, we initiate the study of these monopole operators in the $4-\epsilon$ expansion by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 Shai M. Chester , Mark Mezei , Silviu S. Pufu , Itamar Yaakov

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as sensitive probes for chaos in interacting quantum systems. They exhibit a characteristic classical exponential growth, but saturate beyond the so-called scrambling or Ehrenfest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-25 Josef Rammensee , Juan-Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

The underlying physical concept of computing out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) is a significant new tool within the framework of quantum field theory, which now-a-days is treated as a measure of random fluctuations. In this paper, by…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Sayantan Choudhury

The experimental time scale dependence of thermodynamic relations in out-of-equilibrium systems with aging phenomena is investigated theoretically by using only aging properties of the two-time correlation functions and the generalized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Mitsuhiro Kawasaki

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a standard approach for calculating optical excitations of molecules and solids, while ensemble DFT (EDFT) is a promising alternative under development. We introduce ensemble TDDFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kimberly J. Daas , Steven Crisostomo , Kieron Burke

We use holography to examine the response of interacting quantum fields to the appearance of closed timelike curves in a dynamically evolving background that initially does not contain them. For this purpose, we study a family of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 Roberto Emparan , Marija Tomašević

A Floquet systems is a periodically driven quantum system. It can be described by a Floquet operator. If this unitary operator has a gap in the spectrum, then one can define associated topological bulk invariants which can either only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Christian Sadel , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

The mobility edge, as a central concept in disordered models for localization-delocalization transitions, has rarely been discussed in the context of random matrix theory (RMT). Here we report a new class of random matrix model by direct…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-16 Xiaoshui Lin , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

We show that a quantum phase transition from ergodic to many-body localized (MBL) phases can be induced via periodic pulsed manipulation of spin systems. Such a transition is enabled by the interplay between weak disorder and slow heating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-28 Soonwon Choi , Dmitry A. Abanin , Mikhail D. Lukin

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar