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20162025
most citedQuantum chaos, scrambling and operator growth in deformed SYK models

48 citations · 132 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Matter Coupling of Dirac Matter in the Context of the SYK Model: Non-Gaussian Random Couplings and Bulk Mass Deformations

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Chen-Te Ma, Jeff Murugan +1

We elaborate further on the matter coupling of Dirac matter in the SYK framework, incorporating non-Gaussian coupling distributions and bulk fermion mass effects. Our study analyze…

hep-th2024

Gravitational EFT for dissipative open systems

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Kanji Nishii, Toshifumi Noumi

We elaborate on the effective field theory (EFT) construction for dissipative open systems coupled to dynamical gravity, in light of recent developments on the EFT of dissipative h…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Detecting quantum chaos via pseudo-entropy

Song He, Pak Hang Chris Lau, Long Zhao

Quantum informatic quantities such as entanglement entropy are useful in detecting quantum phase transitions. Recently, a new entanglement measure called pseudo-entropy was propose…

hep-th2023★ 3 cited

On the Backreaction of Dirac Matter in JT Gravity and SYK Model

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Chen-Te Ma, Jeff Murugan +1

We model backreaction in AdS JT gravity via a proposed boundary dual Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev quantum dot coupled to Dirac fermion matter and study it from the perspective of quantum…

hep-th2022★ 48 cited

Quantum chaos, scrambling and operator growth in deformed SYK models

Song He, Pak Hang Chris Lau, Zhuo-Yu Xian +1

In this work, we investigate the quantum chaos in various -deformed SYK models with finite , including the SYK, the supersymmetric SYK, and the SYK models.…

hep-th2022★ 18 cited

Page curve and symmetries

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Toshifumi Noumi, Yuhei Takii +1

Motivated by the quantum process of black hole evaporation and its implications for symmetries, we consider a qubit system with a random dynamics as a toy model of black hole. We c…

hep-th2022

Emergence of Time from Unitary Equivalence

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Chen-Te Ma

We discuss the concept of unitary equivalence between the modular Hamiltonian and the subsystem…

hep-th2020★ 15 cited

Correlated Disorder in the SYK model

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Chen-Te Ma, Jeff Murugan +1

We study the SYK model of Majorana fermions with random quadratic interactions through a detailed spectral analysis and by coupling the model to 2- and 4-point sources. I…

hep-th2018★ 28 cited

Randomness and Chaos in Qubit Models

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Chen-Te Ma, Jeff Murugan +1

We introduce randomness into a class of integrable models and study the spectral form factor as a diagnostic to distinguish between randomness and chaos. Spectral form factors exhi…

hep-th2016★ 17 cited

Chern-Simons 5-form and Holographic Baryons

Pak Hang Chris Lau, Shigeki Sugimoto

In the top-down holographic model of QCD based on D4/D8-branes in type IIA string theory and some of the bottom up models, the low energy effective theory of mesons is described by…

hep-th2016★ 1 cited

Inspecting non-perturbative contributions to the Entanglement Entropy via wavefunctions

Arpan Bhattacharyya, Ling-Yan Hung, P. H. C. Lau +1

In this paper, we would like to systematically explore the implications of non-perturbative effects on entanglement in a many body system. Instead of pursuing the usual path-integr…