5 papers
Thermal Order in the Biconical Model
Michael Smolkin, Lev Yung
Thermal fluctuations are generally expected to destroy order and restore symmetries at sufficiently high temperatures. Recently, however, a family of scalar theories in dimen…
Tidal Response and Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Itamar Cohen, Dina Meylakh, Michael Smolkin +1
In this work, we revisit black hole Love numbers from two complementary perspectives. First, we develop a manifestly gauge-invariant framework that directly integrates out the shor…
Krylov complexity in quantum field theory, and beyond
Alexander Avdoshkin, Anatoly Dymarsky, Michael Smolkin
We study Krylov complexity in various models of quantum field theory: free massive bosons and fermions on flat space and on spheres, holographic models, and lattice models with the…
Spontaneous Space-Time Parity Breaking Without Thermal Restoration
Bilal Hawashin, Michael M. Scherer, Michael Smolkin +1
We construct an ultraviolet-complete, local, and unitary quantum field theory in 2+1 dimensions that exhibits spontaneous breaking of space-time parity, persisting to arbitrarily h…
Renormalization Group in far-from-equilibrium states
Vladimir Rosenhaus, Michael Smolkin
We study renormalization group flows in far-from-equilibrium states. The study is made tractable by focusing on states that are spatially homogeneous, time-independent, and scale-i…