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We analyze three saddle points of the path integral computing the partition function of the SYK model with a Maldacena-Qi coupling in the double scaling limit. The three saddle points are holographically dual to three topologically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Andrew Sontag , Herman Verlinde

We discuss the essential features of baby-universe production, starting from a description of black holes and wormholes, in terms of the causal structure of spacetime, and following a qualitative review of the connection between vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-24 S. Ansoldi , Z. Merali , E. I. Guendelman

Baby universes (inflationary or non--inflationary) are regions of spacetime that disconnect from the original ambient spacetime, which we take to be asymptotically flat spacetime. A particular kind of baby universe solution, involving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-25 Stefano Ansoldi , Eduardo I. Guendelman

We study a partially fine-grained description of an evaporating black hole by introducing an open baby universe with a boundary. Since the Page's calculation of the entropy of Hawking radiation involves an ensemble average over a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Norihiro Iizuka , Akihiro Miyata , Tomonori Ugajin

We argue that the holographic description of four-dimensional BPS black holes naturally includes multi-center solutions. This suggests that the holographic dual to the gauge theory is not a single AdS_2 times S^2 but a coherent ensemble of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Robbert Dijkgraaf , Rajesh Gopakumar , Hirosi Ooguri , Cumrun Vafa

We present a dynamical toy model for an expanding universe inside a black hole. The model is built by matching a spherically symmetric collapsing matter cloud to an expanding Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe through a phase transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Daniele Malafarina , Cosimo Bambi

We introduce a family of partially entangled thermal states in the SYK model that interpolates between the thermo-field double state and a pure (product) state. The states are prepared by a euclidean path integral describing the evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Akash Goel , Ho Tat Lam , Gustavo J. Turiaci , Herman Verlinde

We propose a novel construction of a third quantised baby universe Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_{BU}$ for the quantum gravity path integral. In contrast to the original description of $\alpha$-parameters, both the bulk and boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-01 Panos Betzios , Nava Gaddam , Olga Papadoulaki

We show that a simple sub-class of Horndeski theory can describe a time crystal Universe. The time crystal Universe can be regarded as a baby Universe nucleated from a flat space, which is mediated by an extension of Giddings-Strominger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Daisuke Yoshida , Jiro Soda

We study quantum entanglements of baby universes which appear in non-perturbative corrections to the OSV formula for the entropy of extremal black holes in Type IIA string theory compactified on the local Calabi-Yau manifold defined as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mina Aganagic , Takuya Okuda , Hirosi Ooguri

We suggest that the holographic principle, combined with recent technological advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, can lead to experimental studies of quantum gravity. As a specific example, we consider the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-07 Ippei Danshita , Masanori Hanada , Masaki Tezuka

We investigate the charged $q/2$-body interacting Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the grand-canonical ensemble. By treating $q$ as a large parameter, we are able to analytically study its phase diagram. By varying the chemical potential or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-14 Jan Louw , Stefan Kehrein

Holographic quantum matter exhibits an intriguing connection between quantum black holes and more conventional (albeit strongly interacting) quantum many-body systems. This connection is manifested in the study of their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-03 M. Franz , M. Rozali

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which describes $N$ randomly interacting Majorana fermions in 0+1 dimension, is found to be an solvable UV-complete toy model for holographic duality in nearly AdS$_2$ dilaton gravity. Ref. [1] proposed a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Xiao-Liang Qi , Pengfei Zhang

We discuss Euclidean geometries in AdS$_3$ whose Lorentzian slicing gives rise to closed baby universes with a spatial geometry given by genus $g\geq 2$ surfaces. Our setup only involves a two-dimensional holographic CFT defined on a higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Alexandre Belin , Jan de Boer

It has been proposed that the accelerated expansion of the universe can be explained by the merging of our universe with baby universes, resulting in dark energy with a phantom-like equation of state. However, the evidence in favor of it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Varun Muralidharan , James M. Cline

In this paper, we develop a general effective theory for two copies of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with a time-dependent bilinear coupling. For a quantum quench problem with an initial state of the thermofield double state, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Yuri D. Lensky , Xiao-Liang Qi

We present a toy metric of spacetime travel from topological change. A bubble-like baby universe is detached and re-attached from our universe. Depending on where the bubble is re-attached, matter may travel superluminally or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 Tingqi Cai , Yi Wang

In the 1980's, work by Coleman and by Giddings and Strominger linked the physics of spacetime wormholes to `baby universes' and an ensemble of theories. We revisit such ideas, using features associated with a negative cosmological constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Donald Marolf , Henry Maxfield

We propose a low energy model for simulating an analog black hole on an optical lattice using ultracold atoms. Assuming the validity of the holographic principle, we employ the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which describes a system of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Iftekher S. Chowdhury , Binay Prakash Akhouri , Shah Haque , Martin H. Bacci , Eric Howard
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