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20122026
most citedThermal out-of-time-order correlators, KMS relations, and spectral functions

47 citations · 248 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

hep-th2026

The two-dimensional disordered sigma model

Martí Berenguer, Felix M. Haehl, Elisa Tabor

We introduce a two-dimensional nonlinear sigma model with random Gaussian -body interactions. The model combines the structure of a two-dimensional bosonic SYK-type quant…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Holographic Black Hole Formation and Scrambling in Time-Ordered Correlators

Pratyusha Chowdhury, Felix M. Haehl, Adrián Sánchez-Garrido +1

We describe a holographic mechanism for black hole formation via the collision of two shock waves in three-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. In the dual conformal field theory…

hep-th2025

Mind the crosscap: -scaling in non-orientable gravity and time-reversal-invariant systems

Gabriele Di Ubaldo, Altay Etkin, Felix M. Haehl +1

Spectral statistics of quantum chaotic systems are governed by random matrix universality. In many cases of interest, time-reversal symmetry selects the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensembl…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Virasoro OPE Blocks, Causal Diamonds, and Higher-Dimensional CFT

Felix M. Haehl, Kuo-Wei Huang

In two-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT), multi-stress tensor exchanges between probe operators give rise to the Virasoro identity conformal block, which is fixed by symmetr…

hep-th2025★ 5 cited

Modular-invariant random matrix theory and AdS wormholes

Jan Boruch, Gabriele Di Ubaldo, Felix M. Haehl +2

We develop a non-perturbative definition of RMT: a generalization of random matrix theory that is compatible with the symmetries of two-dimensional conformal field theory. Gi…

hep-th2024

Records from the S-Matrix Marathon: Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism

Felix M. Haehl, Mukund Rangamani

These notes provide an overview of real-time techniques in quantum field theories and holography. We outline the general rationale and principles underlying the Schwinger-Keldysh f…