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hep-th2023★ 1 cited
Scramblon loops
Douglas Stanford, Shreya Vardhan, Shunyu Yao
In large chaotic quantum systems, the butterfly effect is mediated by a collective field mode known as the ``scramblon.'' We study self-interactions of the scramblon in variant…
hep-th2023★ 66 cited
A symmetry algebra in double-scaled SYK
Henry W. Lin, Douglas Stanford
The double-scaled limit of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model takes the number of fermions and their interaction number to infinity in a coordinated way. In this limit, two entangle…
hep-th2023★ 1 cited
A Mirzakhani recursion for non-orientable surfaces
Douglas Stanford
We review Mirzakhani's recursion for the volumes of moduli spaces of orientable surfaces, using a perspective that generalizes to non-orientable surfaces. The non-orientable versio…