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20052025
most citedTowards the fast scrambling conjecture

429 citations · 1.8k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

hep-th2025

Local approximations of global Hamiltonian from inclusion of algebras

Yidong Chen, Nima Lashkari, Kwing Lam Leung

We write down the global Hamiltonian of conformal field theory (CFT) in finite volume in terms of the modular Hamiltonian of the vacuum reduced to a local ball-shaped region, and u…

hep-th2025

Operator Algebras and Third Quantization

Yidong Chen, Marius Junge, Nima Lashkari

In quantum gravity, the gravitational path integral involves a sum over topologies, representing the joining and splitting of multiple universes. To account for topology change, on…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Modular Intersections, Time Interval Algebras and Emergent AdS

Nima Lashkari, Kwing Lam Leung, Mudassir Moosa +1

We compute the modular flow and conjugation of time interval algebras of conformal Generalized Free Fields (GFF) in -dimensions in vacuum. For non-integer scaling dimensions…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

A Lindbladian for exact renormalization of density operators in QFT

Samuel Goldman, Nima Lashkari, Robert G. Leigh

In arXiv:1609.03493, the authors extended the exact renormalization group (ERG) to arbitrary wave-functionals in quantum field theory (QFT). Applying this formalism, we show that t…

hep-th2023★ 15 cited

Local Poincaré Algebra from Quantum Chaos

Shoy Ouseph, Keiichiro Furuya, Nima Lashkari +2

The local two-dimensional Poincaré algebra near the horizon of an eternal AdS black hole, or in proximity to any bifurcate Killing horizon, is generated by the Killing flow and out…

hep-th2023★ 27 cited

Information loss, mixing and emergent type III factors

Keiichiro Furuya, Nima Lashkari, Mudassir Moosa +1

A manifestation of the black hole information loss problem is that the two-point function of probe operators in a large Anti-de Sitter black hole decays in time, whereas, on the bo…

hep-th2023★ 4 cited

Exact Renormalization of Wave Functionals yields Continuous MERA

Samuel Goldman, Nima Lashkari, Robert G. Leigh +1

The exact renormalization group (ERG) is a powerful tool for understanding the formal properties of field theories. By adapting generalized ERG schemes to the flow of wavefunctiona…

hep-th2021★ 10 cited

Renormalization group and approximate error correction

Keiichiro Furuya, Nima Lashkari, Mudassir Moosa

In renormalization group (RG) flow, the low energy states form a code subspace that is approximately protected against the local short-distance errors. We motivate this connection…

quant-ph2021★ 11 cited

Monotonic multi-state quantum -divergences

Keiichiro Furuya, Nima Lashkari, Shoy Ouseph

We use the Tomita-Takesaki modular theory and the Kubo-Ando operator mean to write down a large class of multi-state quantum -divergences and prove that they satisfy the data pr…

hep-th2020★ 21 cited

Real-space RG, error correction and Petz map

Keiichiro Furuya, Nima Lashkari, Shoy Ouseph

There are two parts to this work: First, we study the error correction properties of the real-space renormalization group (RG). The long-distance operators are the (approximately)…

hep-th2020★ 6 cited

Generalized Entanglement, Charges and Intertwiners

Keiichiro Furuya, Nima Lashkari, Shoy Ouseph

The entanglement theory in quantum systems with internal symmetries is rich due to the spontaneous creation of entangled pairs of charge/anti-charge particles at the entangling sur…

hep-th2019★ 5 cited

Modular zero modes and sewing the states of QFT

Nima Lashkari

We point out an important difference between continuum relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) and lattice models with dramatic consequences for the theory of multi-partite entangl…

hep-th2018★ 10 cited

Perturbation Theory for the Logarithm of a Positive Operator

Nima Lashkari, Hong Liu, Srivatsan Rajagopal

In various contexts in mathematical physics one needs to compute the logarithm of a positive unbounded operator. Examples include the von Neumann entropy of a density matrix and th…

hep-th2018★ 38 cited

Modular Flow of Excited States

Nima Lashkari, Hong Liu, Srivatsan Rajagopal

We develop new techniques for studying the modular and the relative modular flows of general excited states. We show that the class of states obtained by acting on the vacuum (or a…

hep-th2018★ 45 cited

Constraining Quantum Fields using Modular Theory

Nima Lashkari

Tomita-Takesaki modular theory provides a set of algebraic tools in quantum field theory that is suitable for the study of the information-theoretic properties of states. For every…

hep-th2017★ 50 cited

Universality of Quantum Information in Chaotic CFTs

Nima Lashkari, Anatoly Dymarsky, Hong Liu

We study the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) in chaotic conformal field theories (CFTs) of arbitrary dimensions. Assuming local ETH, we compute the reduced density matri…

hep-th2017★ 8 cited

Entanglement at a Scale and Renormalization Monotones

Nima Lashkari

We study the information content of the reduced density matrix of a region in quantum field theory that cannot be recovered from its subregion density matrices. We reconstruct the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2016★ 162 cited

Subsystem ETH

Anatoly Dymarsky, Nima Lashkari, Hong Liu

Motivated by the qualitative picture of Canonical Typicality, we propose a refined formulation of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) for chaotic quantum systems. The ne…

hep-th2016★ 10 cited

Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Conformal Field Theory

Nima Lashkari, Anatoly Dymarsky, Hong Liu

We investigate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in d+1 dimensional conformal field theories by studying reduced density matrices in energy eigenstates. We show that i…

hep-th2016★ 49 cited

Gravitational Positive Energy Theorems from Information Inequalities

Nima Lashkari, Jennifer Lin, Hirosi Ooguri +2

In this paper we argue that classical, asymptotically AdS spacetimes that arise as states in consistent ultraviolet completions of Einstein gravity coupled to matter must satisfy a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2015★ 162 cited

Canonical Typicality of Energy Eigenstates of an Isolated Quantum System

Anatoly Dymarsky, Hong Liu

Currently there are two main approaches to describe how quantum statistical physics emerges from an isolated quantum many-body system in a pure state: Canonical Typicality (CT) and…

hep-th2015★ 83 cited

Modular Hamiltonian of Excited States in Conformal Field Theory

Nima Lashkari

We present a novel replica trick that computes the relative entropy of two arbitrary states in conformal field theory. Our replica trick is based on the analytic continuation of pa…

hep-th2015★ 92 cited

Canonical Energy is Quantum Fisher Information

Nima Lashkari, Mark Van Raamsdonk

In quantum information theory, Fisher Information is a natural metric on the space of perturbations to a density matrix, defined by calculating the relative entropy with the unpert…

hep-th2014★ 9 cited

Inviolable energy conditions from entanglement inequalities

Nima Lashkari, Charles Rabideau, Philippe Sabella-Garnier +1

Via the AdS/CFT correspondence, fundamental constraints on the entanglement structure of quantum systems translate to constraints on spacetime geometries that must be satisfied in…