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20242026
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7 papers

hep-th2026

Mapping the Infrared Phase Space of Gravity to Finite Subregions

Luca Ciambelli, Temple He, Marc S. Klinger +1

We construct the phase space for an arbitrary cut of a null hypersurface in Minkowski spacetime and demonstrate that it is symplectomorphic to the infrared phase space of asymptoti…

hep-th2026

Effective density matrix for vacua in asymptotically flat gravity

Temple He, Prahar Mitra, Kathryn M. Zurek

We explicitly construct the density matrix associated to the vacuum state of a large spherically symmetric causal diamond of area in four-dimensional asymptotically flat gravit…

hep-th2026

From Asymptotically Flat Gravity to Finite Causal Diamonds

Luca Ciambelli, Temple He, Kathryn M. Zurek

We demonstrate that the phase space of the soft sector of asymptotically flat gravity in four spacetime dimensions can be identified with that of a spherically symmetric finite cas…

hep-th2025

Thermodynamics of a Spherically Symmetric Causal Diamond in Minkowski Spacetime

Kwinten Fransen, Temple He, Kathryn M. Zurek

We compute a gravitational on-shell action of a finite, spherically symmetric causal diamond in -dimensional Minkowski spacetime, finding it is proportional to the area of t…

hep-th2025

Quantum Area Fluctuations from Gravitational Phase Space

Luca Ciambelli, Temple He, Kathryn M. Zurek

We study the gravitational phase space associated to a stretched horizon within a finite-sized causal diamond in -dimensional spacetimes. By imposing the Raychaudhuri equati…

hep-th2025

Quantum Mechanics of a Spherically Symmetric Causal Diamond in Minkowski Spacetime

Mathew W. Bub, Temple He, Prahar Mitra +2

We construct the phase space of a spherically symmetric causal diamond in -dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Utilizing the covariant phase space formalism, we identify the re…