{"total":23,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2607.01351","ref_index":73,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Wigner negativity in Krylov space and emergent semiclassicality","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-07-01T18:09:10+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Wigner negativity in Krylov space stays O(1) or grows as t^{1/2} (without Hilbert-space scaling) in 2d CFTs, one-cut matrix models, and double-scaled SYK, indicating emergent semiclassicality.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.30853","ref_index":123,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Rethinking quantum information in gravity and fields","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-29T19:34:06+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The paper organizes important open questions in quantum gravity and quantum information into four themes without presenting new results or derivations.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"The profound connection between quantum error correction (QEC) and QG has emerged as a cornerstone of holography. In this framework, the emergence of bulk spacetime geometry from boundary conformal field theory is understood as a realization of a quantum error-correcting code: local bulk operators are encoded into the boundary Hilbert space in a highly nonlocal and redundant 18 manner [123, 227]. This relation suggests that the very fabric of spacetime is not directly determined by entanglement structures, but rather by how quantum information is redundantly encoded in the underlying quantum system, positioning QEC as the fundamental language through which gravity and quantum information are understood in a unified manner. Despite this progress, it remains unclear which aspects of standard QEC are inherently important"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.20334","ref_index":23,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"The magic of the gravitational vacuum","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-18T15:05:05+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The vecro hypothesis introduces a lattice model of the gravitational vacuum whose extended correlations nucleate fuzzballs that destroy semiclassical spacetime near trapped surfaces.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.18739","ref_index":32,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"ASEP/DSSYK duality and strange correlator","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-17T06:33:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Moments of the DSSYK transfer matrix equal an ASEP stationary-product state overlap, presented as analogous to the strange correlator in topological state-sum models.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.18639","ref_index":16,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"A Note on Corrections to Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-17T03:22:29+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Quantifies that corrections to entanglement wedge reconstruction are exponentially suppressed (in G) relative to state-dependent corrections to the effective area function, assuming area scales as 1/G and entropy as 1.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.14208","ref_index":60,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Real-time pseudo entropy and modular-Hamiltonian correlations","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-12T07:44:16+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Short-time real-time pseudo entropy obeys S_A(t,0)=S_A(0)-it ⟨K_A(H−⟨H⟩)⟩ + O(t²), with imaginary response from symmetrized covariance of H and K_A.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.11984","ref_index":109,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Modular quantization and black holes","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-10T12:07:41+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Modular quantization of a single holographic CFT reproduces exact Hartle-Hawking correlators of smooth BTZ black holes in the semiclassical limit while yielding non-smooth stretched-horizon descriptions at finite GN.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"an asymptotic observer determines the (Euclidean) modular time (s) of the dual geometry. The primary motivation for this background-independent construction is to investigate the Hilbert 53I thank Bobby Ezhuthachan, for discussion on this point. 54This picture is closely analogous to the 'fixed area state' in gravitational path integral [108], which serves a realization of 'holography as quantum error correcting code' [109]. 41 space of the BTZ black hole in a non-perturbative setting. In our view, this constitutes one of the essential aspects of Witten's background-independent algebraic framework. In particular, within the framework of dual boundary modular quantization, the presence of a cut-off is naturally incorporated in the bulk via a stretched horizon in AdS-Rindler geometry"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.06404","ref_index":21,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Smooth horizons from topology change in canonical quantum gravity","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-06-04T17:09:30+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Topology change in canonical JT gravity resolves the firewall paradox by making the connected two-interior branch dominate after Page time, with gravitational constraints annihilating the firewall branch and identifying horizon vacuum and early radiation purity as the same Dirac observable.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.25178","ref_index":3,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Pseudorandom Dynamics in the SYK Model and Cryptographic Censorship in JT Gravity","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-24T17:19:08+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"SYK disorder is shown to be an approximate unitary k-design for poly(N) k; under the planted-SYK hardness conjecture this yields gravitationally pseudorandom unitaries, implying cryptographic censorship in JT gravity with the regularized maximal geodesic length as distinguisher.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.23670","ref_index":7,"ref_count":2,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Twirled Perfect Tensor Networks: Computationally covariant holographic tensor networks","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-22T14:18:32+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Twirled perfect tensor networks achieve computational covariance, bound complexity by the PLC, and obey a lattice Ryu-Takayanagi formula for arbitrary boundary subregions.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.17209","ref_index":29,"ref_count":2,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Emergent $\\text{AdS}_{d+1}$ Geometry from Functional Renormalization Group in the Massless Critical Limit","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-17T00:59:46+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Functional renormalization group flow of the O(N) vector model produces an emergent AdS_{d+1} geometry under the massless critical condition.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.16641","ref_index":103,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"On bulk reconstruction in Lorentzian AdS and its flat space limit","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-15T21:31:11+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Constructs bulk scalar field representations in Lorentzian AdS4 from boundary primaries via time-ordered propagators and derives their flat-space limits to plane-wave or Carrollian bases.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"polynomials with general parameters,\" arXiv:math/0301037 [math.CA] . https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301037. [101] X. Xiao, \"Holographic representation of local operators in de sitter space,\" Phys. Rev. D 90 no. 2, (2014) 024061, arXiv:1402.7080 [hep-th] . [102] E. T. Newman, \"Heaven and its properties,\" General Relativity and Gravitation 7 no. 1, (1976) 107-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00762018. [103] A. Almheiri, X. Dong, and D. Harlow, \"Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT,\" JHEP 04 (2015) 163, arXiv:1411.7041 [hep-th] . [104] D. L. Jafferis, A. Lewkowycz, J. Maldacena, and S. J. Suh, \"Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy,\" JHEP 06 (2016) 004, arXiv:1512.06431 [hep-th] . [105] K. Papadodimas and S. Raju, \"An Infalling Observer in AdS/CFT,\" JHEP 10 (2013) 212,"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.12590","ref_index":87,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"A solvable model of 3d quantum gravity","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-12T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"UNKNOWN","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A solvable 3d quantum gravity model is defined by summing Virasoro TQFT copies over all topologies, shown to be dual to a 2d CFT ensemble and to exhibit semiclassical features such as cured negative density of states and Hawking-Page transition in the large-c limit.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"to be the resolution of identity in some effective theory. 6.4 Holographic codes There are many different codes that already made their appearance in our calculations. Their main role was technical, to provide ways to enumerate different boundary CFTs, as well as TQFT states on various topologies. The Vn 1/2TQFT gravity exhibits yet another type of code, a toy version of the holographic code of [87]. As we discussed in section 5, in the large central charge limit the Vn 1/2TQFT gravity condenses to an Abelian phase, separated from the physical boundary by an interface, as shown in Fig. 1. The interface is a linear superposition of all n! interfaces embedding the Hilbert space Hg of the Abelian TCn theory into the full Hilbert spaceHg of the DIn theory."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.06780","ref_index":1,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"A Semiclassical Diagnostic for Spacetime Emergence","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-05-07T18:00:02+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Evanescent quantum extremal surfaces, bounded in area but not generalized entropy, diagnose failures of spacetime emergence in holography.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"This work is supported in part by the Department of Energy under Early Career Award DE-SC0021886, by the Heising-Simons Foundation under grant no. 2023-4430, by the Moore Foundation via the Black Hole Initiative. The work of NE is further supported in part by the DOE under the HEP-QIS program under grant number DE-SC0025937 and the MIT department of physics. References [1] A. Almheiri, X. Dong, and D. Harlow,Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT,JHEP04(2015) 163, [arXiv:1411.7041]. [2] D. Harlow,The Ryu-Takayanagi Formula from Quantum Error Correction,Commun. Math. Phys.354(2017), no. 3 865-912, [arXiv:1607.03901]. [3] F. Pastawski, B. Yoshida, D. Harlow, and J. Preskill,Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence,JHEP06"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.20165","ref_index":23,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Entropy bound and the non-universality of entanglement islands","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-22T04:10:59+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Universal compact entanglement islands are obstructed by an entropy bound violation, implying region-dependent interior reconstruction.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"implies that the effective interior code subspace must con- tain a number of distinguishable logical sectors growing withN. The assumption therefore concerns only a coarse- grained lower bound on the entropy of this effective in- terior sector, rather than exact tensor factorization or strict additivity. While quantum error-correcting en- codings may introduce redundancy at the microscopic level [23, 24], they do not eliminate the requirement of distinguishable logical degrees of freedom when the corre- sponding exterior modes are operationally independent. Attempts to encode an arbitrarily large number of such modes within a fixed finite-dimensional code sub- space would be incompatible with maintaining their op- erational distinguishability within semiclassical EFT."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.14335","ref_index":19,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Hofstadter's Butterfly in AdS$_3$ Black Holes","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-15T18:40:36+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A single-band lattice model on the BTZ cylinder produces a curvature-dependent Harper equation whose spectra show sharpened butterfly fragmentation at weak curvature and suppressed magnetic response near larger 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