papers

Publications (8)

hep-th2017

Numerical Methods for Handlebody Phases

Jason Wien

We review methods used in recent works for constructing handlebody solutions of Einstein's equations in 2+1 dimensions. Additionally, we provide a Mathematica package for computing…

hep-th2016

Holographic confinement in inhomogenous backgrounds

Donald Marolf, Jason Wien

As noted by Witten, compactifying a -dimensional holographic CFT on an gives a class of -dimensional confining theories with gravity duals. The prototypical bulk so…

hep-th2016

Living on the Edge: A Toy Model for Holographic Reconstruction of Algebras with Centers

William Donnelly, Ben Michel, Donald Marolf +1

We generalize the Pastawski-Yoshida-Harlow-Preskill (HaPPY) holographic quantum error-correcting code to provide a toy model for bulk gauge fields or linearized gravitons. The key…

hep-th2017

Handlebody phases and the polyhedrality of the holographic entropy cone

Donald Marolf, Massimiliano Rota, Jason Wien

The notion of a holographic entropy cone has recently been introduced and it has been proven that this cone is polyhedral. However, the original definition was fully geometric and…

hep-th2017

The Torus Operator in Holography

Donald Marolf, Jason Wien

We consider the non-local operator defined in 2-dimensional CFTs by the path integral over a torus with two punctures. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the…

hep-th2014

Holographic Holes and Differential Entropy

Matthew Headrick, Robert C. Myers, Jason Wien

Recently, it has been shown by Balasubramanian et al. and Myers et al. that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula evaluated on certain closed surfaces in the bulk of a holographic…

hep-th2014

A Holographic Approach to Spacetime Entanglement

Jason Wien

Recently it has been proposed that the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the entropy of spacetime horizons has a larger significance as the leading contribution to the entanglement en…

hep-th2016

Adiabatic corrections to holographic entanglement in thermofield doubles and confining ground states

Donald Marolf, Jason Wien

We study entanglement in states of holographic CFTs defined by Euclidean path integrals over geometries with slowly varying metrics. In particular, our CFT spacetimes have fi…