Random quantum circuits

MPA Fisher, V Khemani, A Nahum… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Quantum circuits—built from local unitary gates and local measurements—are a new
playground for quantum many-body physics and a tractable setting to explore universal …

Solvable models of quantum black holes: a review on Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity

TG Mertens, GJ Turiaci - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2023 - Springer
We review recent developments in Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity. This is a simple solvable
model of quantum gravity in two dimensions (that arises eg from the s-wave sector of higher …

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and beyond: Window into non-Fermi liquids

D Chowdhury, A Georges, O Parcollet… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
This is a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-
body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical …

Quantum simulation for high-energy physics

CW Bauer, Z Davoudi, AB Balantekin, T Bhattacharya… - PRX quantum, 2023 - APS
It is for the first time that quantum simulation for high-energy physics (HEP) is studied in the
US decadal particle-physics community planning, and in fact until recently, this was not …

Quantum many-body scars and weak breaking of ergodicity

M Serbyn, DA Abanin, Z Papić - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Thermalization is the inevitable fate of many complex quantum systems, whose dynamics
allow them to fully explore the vast configuration space regardless of the initial state—the …

Controlling quantum many-body dynamics in driven Rydberg atom arrays

D Bluvstein, A Omran, H Levine, A Keesling… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The control of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body systems is challenging
because interactions typically lead to thermalization and a chaotic spreading throughout …

[HTML][HTML] The gravitational eikonal: from particle, string and brane collisions to black-hole encounters

P Di Vecchia, C Heissenberg, R Russo, G Veneziano - Physics reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Motivated by conceptual problems in quantum theories of gravity, the gravitational eikonal
approach, inspired by its electromagnetic predecessor, has been successfully applied to the …

Long-range interacting quantum systems

N Defenu, T Donner, T Macrì, G Pagano, S Ruffo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
In this review recent investigations are summarized of many-body quantum systems with
long-range interactions, which are currently realized in Rydberg atom arrays, dipolar …

Quantum chaos and the complexity of spread of states

V Balasubramanian, P Caputa, JM Magan, Q Wu - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We propose a measure of quantum state complexity defined by minimizing the spread of the
wave function over all choices of basis. Our measure is controlled by the “survival amplitude” …

Large N algebras and generalized entropy

V Chandrasekaran, G Penington, E Witten - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We construct a Type II∞ von Neumann algebra that describes the large N physics
of single-trace operators in AdS/CFT in the microcanonical ensemble, where there is no …