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hep-th2025
Replica manifolds, pole skipping, and the butterfly effect
Wan Zhen Chua, Thomas Hartman, Wayne W. Weng
The black hole butterfly effect is a signal of quantum chaos in holographic theories that can be probed in different ways, including out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), pole ski…
hep-th2023
Black hole wavefunctions and microcanonical states
Wan Zhen Chua, Thomas Hartman
We consider the problem of defining a microcanonical thermofield double state at fixed energy and angular momentum from the gravitational path integral. A semiclassical approximati…