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Recent work on cosmological amplitudes has established reality conditions (derived from unitarity) for general particle-creation processes in flat FLRW cosmologies, in the Bunch-Davies wavefunction. In light of these results, we propose a…

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We advance the study of flat space holography by computing the entanglement entropy of highly excited states in two-dimensional Carrollian/Galilean Conformal Field Theories (C/G CFTs). Our approach is centered on a novel, physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Peng-Xiang Hao , Shunta Takahashi

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with a globally conserved U(1) charge Q can be deformed into compressible phases by modifying their Hamiltonian, H, by a chemical potential H -> H - \mu Q. We study 2+1 dimensional CFTs upon which an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-11 Subir Sachdev

We demonstrate that for general conformal field theories (CFTs), the entanglement for small perturbations of the vacuum is organized in a novel holographic way. For spherical entangling regions in a constant time slice, perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-15 Jan de Boer , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers , Yasha Neiman

It has been recently shown that the deformation of an arbitrary two-dimensional conformal field theory by the composite irrelevant operator $T \bar T$, built from the components of the stress tensor, is solvable; in particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Monica Guica

We present a rigorous and fully consistent $K$-theoretic framework for studying gapped topological phases of free fermions such as topological insulators. It utilises and profits from powerful techniques in operator $K$-theory. From the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Guo Chuan Thiang

Krylov complexity provides a powerful framework for characterizing the dynamical evolution of quantum systems through the spreading of states in Krylov space. The motivation for this is rooted in the optimality of the Krylov basis for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Saud Čindrak , Kathy Lüdge

We propose a nonperturbative completion of two-point correlators in $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories (CFTs), and analyze their behavior at distance scales shorter than the fundamental length scale set by the $T\bar{T}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Shinji Hirano , Vinayak Raj

We give a detailed exposition of the formalism of Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) with emphasis on the perturbative determination of observables. KFT is a statistical non-equilibrium classical field theory based on the path integral formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shayan Hemmatyar , Stefan Zentarra

We study the holographic complexity of noncommutative field theories. The four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ noncommutative super Yang-Mills theory with Moyal algebra along two of the spatial directions has a well known holographic dual as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-22 Josiah Couch , Stefan Eccles , Willy Fischler , Ming-Lei Xiao

We consider several aspects of unitary higher-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We first study massive deformations that trigger a flow to a gapped phase. Deep inelastic scattering in the gapped phase leads to a convexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Zohar Komargodski , Alexander Zhiboedov

The Kugel-Khomskii (KK) Hamiltonian for the titanates describes spin and orbital superexchange interactions between $d^1$ ions in an ideal perovskite structure in which the three $t_{2g}$ orbitals are degenerate in energy and electron…

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We derive constraints on two-dimensional conformal field theories with higher spin symmetry due to unitarity, modular invariance, and causality. We focus on CFTs with $\mathcal{W}_N$ symmetry in the "irrational" regime, where $c>N-1$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Kale Colville , Thomas Hartman , Alexander Maloney , Eric Perlmutter

We study the $T\overline{T}$ deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories from a Hamiltonian point of view, focusing on aspects of the theory in Lorentzian signature. Our starting point is a simple rewriting of the spatial integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Jorrit Kruthoff , Onkar Parrikar

We study solutions of type IIB supergravity which are SL(2,R) x SU(2) x U(1)^2 invariant deformations of AdS_3 x S^3 x K3 and take the form of products of self-dual spacelike warped AdS_3 and a deformed three-sphere. One of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Sheer El-Showk , Monica Guica

We consider a class of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which have a large $N$ limit and a semi-classical gravity dual description. Using the quiver-like structure of 6D SCFTs we study a subsector of operators protected from large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-19 Jonathan J. Heckman

Inspired by the universal operator growth hypothesis, we extend the formalism of Krylov construction in dissipative open quantum systems connected to a Markovian bath. Our construction is based upon the modification of the Liouvillian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pratik Nandy , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

We study quantum chaos in $\textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}}$-deformed two-dimensional conformal field theories with gravitational anomaly and their holographic dual description in topologically massive gravity. Using pole-skipping and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Debarshi Basu , Mingshuai Xu

We study universal features in the shape dependence of entanglement entropy in the vacuum state of a conformal field theory (CFT) on $\mathbb{R}^{1,d-1}$. We consider the entanglement entropy across a deformed planar or spherical entangling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-22 Thomas Faulkner , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar

We consider CFTs conjectured to be dual to higher spin theories of gravity in AdS_3 and AdS_4. Two dimensional CFTs with W_N symmetry are considered in the lambda=0 (k --> infinity) limit, where they are conjectured to be described by…