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Memories of a Theoretical Physicist
Joseph Polchinski
While I was dealing with a brain injury and finding it difficult to work, two friends (Derek Westen, a friend of the KITP, and Steve Shenker, with whom I was recently collaborating…
Black Holes and Random Matrices
Jordan S. Cotler, Guy Gur-Ari, Masanori Hanada +6
We argue that the late time behavior of horizon fluctuations in large anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes is governed by the random matrix dynamics characteristic of quantum chaotic s…
The Black Hole Information Problem
Joseph Polchinski
The black hole information problem has been a challenge since Hawking's original 1975 paper. It led to the discovery of AdS/CFT, which gave a partial resolution of the paradox. How…
Four-point function in the IOP matrix model
Ben Michel, Joseph Polchinski, Vladimir Rosenhaus +1
The IOP model is a quantum mechanical system of a large- matrix oscillator and a fundamental oscillator, coupled through a quartic interaction. It was introduced previously as a…
Why trust a theory? Some further remarks (part 1)
Joseph Polchinski
I expand on some ideas from my recent review "String theory to the rescue," I discuss my use of Bayesian reasoning. I argue that it can be useful but that it is very far from the c…
The Spectrum in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model
Joseph Polchinski, Vladimir Rosenhaus
The SYK model consists of fermions in dimensions with a random, all-to-all quartic interaction. Recently, Kitaev has found that the SYK model is maximally chaotic an…