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most citedThermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories

93 citations · 208 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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hep-th2026

Constraints on four-party entanglement in holography

Vijay Balasubramanian, William K. L. Chan, Monica Jinwoo Kang +2

We show that in pure time-reflection-symmetric holographic states several known four-party entanglement signals vanish unless the triple information is non-zero. In this sens…

hep-th2025

Detector-based measurement-induced state updates in AdS/CFT

Vijay Balasubramanian, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Nicola Pranzini

Conventional understandings of quantum theory hold that measurements change the state of an observed system following the Lüders update rule. Textbooks describe the application of…

hep-th2024

Counting microstates of out-of-equilibrium black hole fluctuations

Vijay Balasubramanian, Ben Craps, Juan Hernandez +2

We construct and count the microstates of out-of-equilibrium eternal AdS black holes in which a shell carrying an order one fraction of the black hole mass is emitted from the past…

hep-th2024

Factorization of the Hilbert space of eternal black holes in general relativity

Vijay Balasubramanian, Ben Craps, Juan Hernandez +2

We generalize recent results in two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity to study factorization of the Hilbert space of eternal black holes in quantum gravity with a negative cosm…

hep-th2017★ 18 cited

Heavy-Heavy-Light-Light correlators in Liouville theory

Vijay Balasubramanian, Alice Bernamonti, Ben Craps +2

We compute four-point functions of two heavy and two "perturbatively heavy" operators in the semiclassical limit of Liouville theory on the sphere. We obtain these "Heavy-Heavy-Lig…

hep-th2016★ 49 cited

Entwinement in discretely gauged theories

V. Balasubramanian, A. Bernamonti, B. Craps +2

We develop the notion of entwinement to characterize the amount of quantum entanglement between internal, discretely gauged degrees of freedom in a quantum field theory. This conce…

hep-th2013★ 48 cited

Inhomogeneous holographic thermalization

V. Balasubramanian, A. Bernamonti, J. de Boer +6

The sudden injection of energy in a strongly coupled conformal field theory and its subsequent thermalization can be holographically modeled by a shell falling into anti-de Sitter…

hep-th2013★ 93 cited

Thermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories

V. Balasubramanian, A. Bernamonti, B. Craps +5

Using Wigner transforms of Green functions, we discuss non-equilibrium generalizations of spectral functions and occupation numbers. We develop methods for computing time-dependent…