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most citedHolographic Black Hole Formation and Scrambling in Time-Ordered Correlators

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hep-th2026

Anti-scrambling and euclidean folds from observer correlators in de Sitter space

Daniel Harlow, Ying Zhao

The paper investigates how correlation functions measured by an observer in de Sitter space exhibit an anti‑scrambling behavior, contrasting with typical many‑body systems, and sug…

hep-th20261 cited

Holographic Black Hole Formation and Scrambling in Time-Ordered Correlators

Pratyusha Chowdhury, Felix M. Haehl, Adrián Sánchez-Garrido +1

We describe a holographic mechanism for black hole formation via the collision of two shock waves in three-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. In the dual conformal field theory…

hep-th2026

De Sitter quantum gravity and the emergence of local algebras

Molly Kaplan, Donald Marolf, Xuyang Yu +1

Quantum theories of gravity are generally expected to have some degree of non-locality, with familiar local physics emerging only in a particular limit. Perturbative quantum gravit…

hep-th2026

"It from Bit": The Hartle-Hawking state and quantum mechanics for de Sitter observers

Ying Zhao

The one-state statement for closed universes has sparked considerable discussion. In this paper, we examine its physical meaning in the context of the Hartle-Hawking state and de S…

hep-th2025

Closed universes, factorization, and ensemble averaging

Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Ying Zhao

We study closed universes in holographic theories of quantum gravity. We argue that within any fixed theory, factorization implies there is one unique closed universe state. The wa…

hep-th2025

Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe

Daniel Harlow, Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Ying Zhao

Recent arguments based on the quantum extremal surface formula or the gravitational path integral have given fairly compelling evidence that the Hilbert space of quantum gravity in…