Physics

IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

October 18, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:15pm

Abstract: We analyze a model of qubits which we argue has an emergent quantum gravitational description similar to the fermionic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. The model we consider is known as the quantum $q$-spin model because it features $q$...

Informal Physics Half-Hour Talk

October 17, 2024 | 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Abstract: Conditional expectations on von Neumann algebras have played a significant role in the development of quantum information theory, and especially the study of quantum error correction. In quantum gravity, it has been suggested that...

IAS Quantum Aspects of Black Holes Group Meeting

October 17, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm

Abstract: In this talk, I plan to review some recent works on the study of three-dimensional quantum gravity. In the first part, I will focus on pure $AdS_3$ gravity and review the recent results on evaluating the gravity partition function over...

IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

October 14, 2024 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Abstract: We construct compactifications of type IIB string theory that yield, at leading order in the α ′ α ′ and g s g s expansions, de Sitter vacua of the form envisioned by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde, and Trivedi. We specify explicit Calabi-Yau...

Princeton University High Energy Theory Seminar

October 11, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:15pm

Abstract: We employ a probabilistic mesoscopic description to draw conceptual and quantitative analogies between Brownian motion and late-time fluctuations of thermal correlation functions in generic chaotic systems respecting ETH. We apply this...