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20092026
most citedModular Hamiltonians for Deformed Half-Spaces and the Averaged Null Energy Condition

223 citations · 1.6k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

hep-th2026

A semiclassical Hilbert space for random matrix theory

Abhirup Bhattacharya, Onkar Parrikar, Vivek Singh

We study the one-sided time evolution of thermofield double (TFD) states in random matrix theory, where the Hamiltonian is taken to be a random matrix drawn from a unit…

hep-th2026

Stabilizer complexity and the Python's lunch

Abhirup Bhattacharya, Jatin Narde, Onkar Parrikar +1

In this note, we study the stabilizer complexity of the reduced density matrix corresponding to one side of a partially entangled thermal (PET) state with fixed energy boundary con…

hep-th2026

Wigner negativity in Krylov space and emergent semiclassicality

Vijay Balasubramanian, Pawel Caputa, Onkar Parrikar +1

We propose that the Krylov basis gives a semiclassical representation of dynamics in general large-, complex, many-body systems. As a probe of this semiclassicality, we study th…

hep-th2026

Fortuity and Complexity in a Simple Quark Model

Jackson R. Fliss, Vishnu Jejjala, Onkar Parrikar

We observe and elaborate on a structural similarity between the categorization of monotone and fortuitous BPS operators in supersymmetric theories and gauge invariant quark operato…

hep-th2025

Modular Witten Diagrams and Quantum Extremality

Abhirup Bhattacharya, Onkar Parrikar

We study entanglement entropy for ball-shaped regions in excited states of holographic conformal field theories. The excited states are prepared by the Euclidean path integral in t…

hep-th2025

Covariant phase space and the semi-classical Einstein equation

Abhirup Bhattacharya, Onkar Parrikar

The covariant phase space formalism in general relativity is a covariant method for constructing the symplectic two-form, Hamiltonian and other conserved charges on the phase space…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

On the stabilizer complexity of Hawking radiation

Ritam Basu, Onkar Parrikar, Suprakash Paul +1

We study the complexity of Hawking radiation for an evaporating black hole from the perspective of the stabilizer theory of quantum computation. Specifically, we calculate Wigner n…

hep-th2025

Entanglement spreading and emergent locality in Brownian SYK chains

Jatin Narde, Onkar Parrikar, Harshit Rajgadia +1

The Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) formula and its interpretation in terms of quantum error correction (QEC) implies an emergent locality for the spread of quantum information in holographic…

hep-th2025

Wigner negativity, random matrices and gravity

Ritam Basu, Pratyusha Chowdhury, Anirban Ganguly +3

Given a choice of an ordered, orthonormal basis for a -dimensional Hilbert space, one can define a discrete version of the Wigner function -- a quasi-probability distribution wh…

hep-th2025

York time in JT gravity

Onkar Parrikar, Sunil Kumar Sake

The notion of time in general relativity must arise from an internal clock, i.e., a degree of freedom in the gravitational theory internal to the system that can serve the role of…

hep-th2024★ 3 cited

Relational bulk reconstruction from modular flow

Onkar Parrikar, Harshit Rajgadia, Vivek Singh +1

The entanglement wedge reconstruction paradigm in AdS/CFT states that for a bulk qudit within the entanglement wedge of a boundary subregion , operators acting on the bulk…

hep-th2024

Complexity Growth and the Krylov-Wigner function

Ritam Basu, Anirban Ganguly, Souparna Nath +1

For any state in a -dimensional Hilbert space with a choice of basis, one can define a discrete version of the Wigner function -- a quasi-probability distribution which represen…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

The S-matrix and boundary correlators in flat space

Diksha Jain, Suman Kundu, Shiraz Minwalla +3

We consider the path integral of a quantum field theory in Minkowski spacetime with fixed boundary values (for the elementary fields) on asymptotic boundaries. We define and study…

hep-th2023

Canonical Purification and the Quantum Extremal Shock

Onkar Parrikar, Vivek Singh

We study the canonical purification (with respect to one of the parties) of pure, bi-partite states obtained by turning on sources in the Euclidean path integral. In holographic co…

hep-th2023★ 12 cited

Quantum Error Correction from Complexity in Brownian SYK

Vijay Balasubramanian, Arjun Kar, Cathy Li +2

We study the robustness of quantum error correction in a one-parameter ensemble of codes generated by the Brownian SYK model, where the parameter quantifies the encoding complexity…

hep-th2022★ 16 cited

Quantum Error Correction in the Black Hole Interior

Vijay Balasubramanian, Arjun Kar, Cathy Li +1

We study the quantum error correction properties of the black hole interior in a toy model for an evaporating black hole: Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity entangled with a non-gravitation…

hep-th2021★ 3 cited

The Markov gap for geometric reflected entropy

Patrick Hayden, Onkar Parrikar, Jonathan Sorce

The reflected entropy of a density matrix is a bipartite correlation measure lower-bounded by the quantum mutual information . In holographic states sat…

hep-th2021★ 32 cited

Islands with Gravitating Baths: Towards ER = EPR

Louise Anderson, Onkar Parrikar, Ronak M Soni

We study the Page curve and the island rule for black holes evaporating into gravitating baths, with an eye towards establishing a connection with the ER=EPR proposal. We consider…

hep-th2021★ 64 cited

Complexity Growth in Integrable and Chaotic Models

Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Arjun Kar +2

We use the SYK family of models with Majorana fermions to study the complexity of time evolution, formulated as the shortest geodesic length on the unitary group manifold betwe…

hep-th2020★ 20 cited

Building Tensor Networks for Holographic States

Pawel Caputa, Jorrit Kruthoff, Onkar Parrikar

We discuss a one-parameter family of states in two-dimensional holographic conformal field theories which are constructed via the Euclidean path integral of an effective theory on…

hep-th2020

On the flow of states under

Jorrit Kruthoff, Onkar Parrikar

We study the deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories from a Hamiltonian point of view, focusing on aspects of the theory in Lorentzian signature. Our…

hep-th2020★ 81 cited

Geometric secret sharing in a model of Hawking radiation

Vijay Balasubramanian, Arjun Kar, Onkar Parrikar +2

We consider a black hole in three dimensional AdS space entangled with an auxiliary radiation system. We model the microstates of the black hole in terms of a field theory living o…

hep-th2020★ 5 cited

Modular Hamiltonians for Euclidean Path Integral States

Srivatsan Balakrishnan, Onkar Parrikar

We study half-space/Rindler modular Hamiltonians for excited states created by turning on sources for local operators in the Euclidean path integral in relativistic quantum field t…

hep-th2019★ 23 cited

Search Optimization, Funnel Topography, and Dynamical Criticality on the String Landscape

Justin Khoury, Onkar Parrikar

A striking feature of our universe is its near criticality. The cosmological constant and weak hierarchy problems, as well as the metastability of the electroweak vacuum, can all b…