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A semiclassical ramp in SYK and in gravity

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In finite entropy systems, real-time partition functions do not decay to zero at late time. Instead, assuming random matrix universality, suitable averages exhibit a growing "ramp" and "plateau" structure. Deriving this non-decaying behavior in a large $N$ collective field description is a challenge related to one version of the black hole information problem. We describe a candidate semiclassical explanation of the ramp for the SYK model and for black holes. In SYK, this is a two-replica nonperturbative saddle point for the large $N$ collective fields, with zero action and a compact zero mode that leads to a linearly growing ramp. In the black hole context, the solution is a two-sided black hole that is periodically identified under a Killing time translation. We discuss but do not resolve some puzzles that arise.

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Replica wormholes and the black hole interior

hep-th · 2019-11-27 · conditional · novelty 9.0

Replica wormhole geometries justify the replica trick computation of the Page curve in holographic black hole models and support entanglement wedge reconstruction via the Petz map.

Wormholes and Averaging over N

hep-th · 2026-05-14 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

Mellin averaging over N reproduces the ensemble-like randomness of wormhole physics in the gravitational path integral when the dual theory admits analytic continuation in N and observables fluctuate superpolynomially small in N.

Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation

hep-th · 2019-11-27 · accept · novelty 8.0

Replica wormholes in the gravitational path integral yield the island rule for the fine-grained entropy of Hawking radiation, ensuring it follows the unitary Page curve in two-dimensional dilaton gravity.

The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry

hep-th · 2019-08-29 · accept · novelty 8.0

Hawking radiation entropy follows the Page curve when quantum extremal surfaces are identified with RT/HRT surfaces in a higher-dimensional holographic dual, making the black hole interior part of the radiation's entanglement wedge.

Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity

hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Holographic complexity measures show universal linear growth followed by late-time saturation, proven necessary and sufficient via pole structures in the energy basis using the residue theorem, arising from random matrix statistics.

Chaos of Berry curvature for BPS microstates

hep-th · 2026-04-25 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Berry curvature of BPS states is random-matrix-like for supersymmetric black hole microstates but non-random and often zero for horizonless geometries, offering a chaos diagnostic in degenerate sectors.

Searching for emergent spacetime in spin glasses

hep-th · 2025-10-23 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Spectral functions of SYK, p-spin, and SU(M) Heisenberg models show exponential tails in spin-glass phases and quasiparticle families in spin-liquid phases, with a proof that exponential decay blocks detection of bulk causal structure.

Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion

hep-th · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Inner horizon saddles supply the semiclassical correction -exp(A_inner/4G) to near-extremal black-hole entropy and motivate a spectral KSW criterion for well-defined one-loop effects around complex gravitational saddles.

Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound

hep-th · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Wormhole effects in theories with imaginary massless scalars set an upper limit on analytic continuation of couplings to imaginary values, with string theory examples showing the low-energy theory breaks down at or before this bound.

Probing the Chaos to Integrability Transition in Double-Scaled SYK

hep-th · 2026-01-14 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

A first-order phase transition in the Berkooz-Brukner-Jia-Mamroud interpolating model causes chord number, Krylov complexity, and operator size to switch discontinuously from chaotic (linear/exponential) to quasi-integrable (quadratic) growth.

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model in a Quantum Glassy Landscape

cond-mat.dis-nn · 2025-09-26 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Coupling SYK Majorana fermions to a quantum p-spin glassy bosonic landscape produces SYK-like behavior inside metastable states, enhances quantum spin-glass stability, and modifies Green's functions to slow dynamics in the glass while washing out critical SYK behavior in the paramagnetic phase.

Krylov Complexity

hep-th · 2025-07-08 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

Krylov complexity is a canonical, parameter-independent measure of operator spreading that probes chaotic dynamics to late times and admits a geometric interpretation in holographic duals.

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  • Replica wormholes and the black hole interior hep-th · 2019-11-27 · conditional · none · ref 24 · internal anchor

    Replica wormhole geometries justify the replica trick computation of the Page curve in holographic black hole models and support entanglement wedge reconstruction via the Petz map.

  • Wormholes and Averaging over N hep-th · 2026-05-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 3 · internal anchor

    Mellin averaging over N reproduces the ensemble-like randomness of wormhole physics in the gravitational path integral when the dual theory admits analytic continuation in N and observables fluctuate superpolynomially small in N.

  • Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation hep-th · 2019-11-27 · accept · none · ref 33 · internal anchor

    Replica wormholes in the gravitational path integral yield the island rule for the fine-grained entropy of Hawking radiation, ensuring it follows the unitary Page curve in two-dimensional dilaton gravity.

  • The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry hep-th · 2019-08-29 · accept · none · ref 44 · internal anchor

    Hawking radiation entropy follows the Page curve when quantum extremal surfaces are identified with RT/HRT surfaces in a higher-dimensional holographic dual, making the black hole interior part of the radiation's entanglement wedge.

  • Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox hep-th · 2019-05-20 · unverdicted · none · ref 93 · internal anchor

    A phase transition in the quantum RT surface at the Page time derives the Page curve and enables entanglement wedge reconstruction of the black hole interior from Hawking radiation.

  • Mind the crosscap: $\tau$-scaling in non-orientable gravity and time-reversal-invariant systems hep-th · 2025-09-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 3 · internal anchor

    Non-orientable topological gravity produces a resummed topological expansion whose late-time behavior matches the GOE universality class of random matrix theory for time-reversal invariant chaotic systems.

  • Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 11 · internal anchor

    Holographic complexity measures show universal linear growth followed by late-time saturation, proven necessary and sufficient via pole structures in the energy basis using the residue theorem, arising from random matrix statistics.

  • Positivity of the gravitational path integral implies the axionic weak gravity conjecture hep-th · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 60

    Positivity of gravitational path integral inner products requires non-perturbative instabilities in axion wormholes that break shift symmetry, implying a sharp axion weak gravity conjecture with precise constants.

  • Chaos of Berry curvature for BPS microstates hep-th · 2026-04-25 · unverdicted · none · ref 5

    Berry curvature of BPS states is random-matrix-like for supersymmetric black hole microstates but non-random and often zero for horizonless geometries, offering a chaos diagnostic in degenerate sectors.

  • Sample-efficient benchmarking of shallow all-to-all random quantum circuits quant-ph · 2026-05-21 · unverdicted · none · ref 67 · internal anchor

    Nonlinear cross-entropy benchmark and heavy-output classifier enable sample-efficient distinction between noisy quantum and classical spoofers for shallow-depth all-to-all random circuits.

  • Searching for emergent spacetime in spin glasses hep-th · 2025-10-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 27 · internal anchor

    Spectral functions of SYK, p-spin, and SU(M) Heisenberg models show exponential tails in spin-glass phases and quasiparticle families in spin-liquid phases, with a proof that exponential decay blocks detection of bulk causal structure.

  • Entanglement spreading and emergent locality in Brownian SYK chains hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 23 · internal anchor

    In a Brownian SYK chain at strong coupling, information from an injected qudit spreads inside a sharp light-cone at the butterfly velocity because the governing dynamics reduce to FKPP domain walls.

  • Fiducial observers and the thermal atmosphere in the black hole quantum throat hep-th · 2025-07-28 · unverdicted · none · ref 70 · internal anchor

    A semiclassical construction of fiducial observers in JT gravity, fixed by conformal isometry flow, is extended to the quantum regime to compute wormhole contributions yielding finite thermal entropy and a quantum description of the stretched horizon.

  • Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion hep-th · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 26

    Inner horizon saddles supply the semiclassical correction -exp(A_inner/4G) to near-extremal black-hole entropy and motivate a spectral KSW criterion for well-defined one-loop effects around complex gravitational saddles.

  • Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound hep-th · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 1

    Wormhole effects in theories with imaginary massless scalars set an upper limit on analytic continuation of couplings to imaginary values, with string theory examples showing the low-energy theory breaks down at or before this bound.

  • Probing the Chaos to Integrability Transition in Double-Scaled SYK hep-th · 2026-01-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 92 · internal anchor

    A first-order phase transition in the Berkooz-Brukner-Jia-Mamroud interpolating model causes chord number, Krylov complexity, and operator size to switch discontinuously from chaotic (linear/exponential) to quasi-integrable (quadratic) growth.

  • Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model in a Quantum Glassy Landscape cond-mat.dis-nn · 2025-09-26 · unverdicted · none · ref 53 · internal anchor

    Coupling SYK Majorana fermions to a quantum p-spin glassy bosonic landscape produces SYK-like behavior inside metastable states, enhances quantum spin-glass stability, and modifies Green's functions to slow dynamics in the glass while washing out critical SYK behavior in the paramagnetic phase.

  • Finite cutoff JT gravity: Baby universes, Matrix dual, and (Krylov) Complexity hep-th · 2025-02-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 35 · internal anchor

    Finite cutoff in JT gravity causes faster ERB-length saturation, deformation-dependent baby-universe emission only under Lorentzian evolution, and possible one-cut universality corrections in the matrix dual.

  • Algebraic Realisation of the Zamolodchikov Metric in Narain Theories hep-th · 2024-12-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 15 · internal anchor

    The Zamolodchikov metric in Narain CFTs is realized using the Cartan matrix K_g and its inverse from finite-dimensional Lie algebras g.

  • Krylov Complexity hep-th · 2025-07-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 273 · internal anchor

    Krylov complexity is a canonical, parameter-independent measure of operator spreading that probes chaotic dynamics to late times and admits a geometric interpretation in holographic duals.