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most citedUnitarity Methods in AdS/CFT

70 citations · 301 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

hep-th2026

On Perturbatively Dressed Observables

Clifford Cheung, Allic Sivaramakrishnan, Jordan Wilson-Gerow +1

A central lesson of gravity is that local observables are ill-defined. Coordinates themselves are a redundancy of description, so any particular point in spacetime is only meaningf…

hep-th2025

Composite AdS geodesics for CFT correlators and timelike entanglement entropy

Hardik Bohra, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We study how to recover timelike worldlines in AdS from CFT data as a toy model for holographically reconstructing realistic observers. We give a bulk extremization procedure that…

hep-th2025

Observer Time from Causality in Perturbative Quantum Gravity

Allic Sivaramakrishnan

It is unclear whether an observable notion of time exists in quantum gravity even in principle because spacetime itself fluctuates. We propose a form of observable time in perturba…

hep-th2025

Correlation functions of von Neumann entropy

Mathew W. Bub, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

In this note, we study two-point correlation functions of modular Hamiltonians. We show that in general quantum systems, these correlators obey properties similar to those of von N…

hep-th2024★ 3 cited

Response of interferometers to the vacuum of quantum gravity

Daniel Carney, Manthos Karydas, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

It has recently been suggested that exotic quantum gravity effects could lead to large vacuum fluctuations, potentially observable with realistic detectors. Experiments are current…

hep-th2024

Correlators of Worldline Proper Length

Allic Sivaramakrishnan

A classical observer can measure elapsed proper time along their worldline. When observers are coupled to a system with internal correlations, measurements of elapsed time may inhe…

hep-th2024★ 8 cited

An On-Shell Derivation of the Soft Effective Action in Abelian Gauge Theories

Temple He, Prahar Mitra, Allic Sivaramakrishnan +1

We derive the soft effective action in -dimensional abelian gauge theories from the on-shell action obeying Neumann boundary conditions at timelike and null infinity and Dir…

hep-th2023★ 20 cited

On Entropy Growth in Perturbative Scattering

Clifford Cheung, Temple He, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

Inspired by the second law of thermodynamics, we study the change in subsystem entropy generated by dynamical unitary evolution of a product state in a bipartite system. Working at…

hep-th2022

On-shell Correlators and Color-Kinematics Duality in Curved Symmetric Spacetimes

Clifford Cheung, Julio Parra-Martinez, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We define a perturbatively calculable quantity--the on-shell correlator--which furnishes a unified description of particle dynamics in curved spacetime. Specializing to the case of…

hep-th2021★ 2 cited

Information Geometry and Holographic Correlators

Hardik Bohra, Ashish Kakkar, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We explore perturbative corrections to quantum information geometry. In particular, we study a Bures information metric naturally associated with the correlation functions of a con…

hep-th2021★ 33 cited

Towards Color-Kinematics Duality in Generic Spacetimes

Allic Sivaramakrishnan

In this note, we study color-kinematics duality in generic spacetimes. We work with a contact representation for on shell correlators. The position-space integrand is encoded by en…

hep-th2020★ 68 cited

CFT Unitarity and the AdS Cutkosky Rules

David Meltzer, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We derive the Cutkosky rules for conformal field theories (CFTs) at weak and strong coupling. These rules give a simple, diagrammatic method to compute the double-commutator that a…

hep-th2020★ 7 cited

Anomalous Dimensions from Thermal AdS Partition Functions

Per Kraus, Stathis Megas, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We develop an efficient method for computing thermal partition functions of weakly coupled scalar fields in AdS. We consider quartic contact interactions and show how to evaluate t…

hep-th2020★ 70 cited

Unitarity Methods in AdS/CFT

David Meltzer, Eric Perlmutter, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We develop a systematic unitarity method for loop-level AdS scattering amplitudes, dual to non-planar CFT correlators, from both bulk and boundary perspectives. We identify cut ope…

hep-th2018★ 9 cited

Light-state Dominance from the Conformal Bootstrap

Per Kraus, Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We derive forms of light-state dominance for correlators in CFT, making precise the sense in which correlators can be approximated by the contribution of light operator exchang…

hep-th2018★ 14 cited

Late time Wilson lines

Per Kraus, Allic Sivaramakrishnan, River Snively

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, physical interest attaches to understanding Virasoro conformal blocks at large central charge and in a kinematical regime of large Lorentzian…

hep-th2017★ 3 cited

Entanglement Entropy with a Time-dependent Hamiltonian

Allic Sivaramakrishnan

The time evolution of entanglement tracks how information propagates in interacting quantum systems. We study entanglement entropy in CFT with a time-dependent Hamiltonian. We…

hep-th2017★ 27 cited

Black holes from CFT: Universality of correlators at large c

Per Kraus, Allic Sivaramakrishnan, River Snively

Two-dimensional conformal field theories at large central charge and with a sufficiently sparse spectrum of light states have been shown to exhibit universal thermodynamics. This t…

hep-th2016★ 10 cited

Localized Excitations from Localized Unitary Operators

Allic Sivaramakrishnan

Localized unitary operators are basic probes of locality and causality in quantum systems: localized unitary operators create localized excitations in entangled states. Working wit…

hep-th2014★ 9 cited

Color-Kinematic Duality in ABJM Theory Without Amplitude Relations

Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We explicitly show that the Bern-Carrasco-Johansson color-kinematic duality holds at tree level through at least eight points in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena theory with gaug…

astro-ph2005★ 18 cited

Low Order Aberrations in Band-Limited Lyot Coronagraphs

Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Remi Soummer, Allic V. Sivaramakrishnan +3

We study the way Lyot coronagraphs with unapodized entrance pupils respond to small, low order phase aberrations. This study is applicable to ground-based adaptive optics coronagra…