25–28 Aug 2025
Albano Building 2
Europe/Stockholm timezone

The Statistics of BPS Chaos

26 Aug 2025, 14:40
25m
Auditorium 5 (Albano Building 2)

Auditorium 5

Albano Building 2

Speaker

Yixuan Li (University of Padua)

Description

Black hole microstates, considered collectively as an ensemble, are believed to exhibit properties of quantum chaos, and in particular eigenvalue repulsion. The extent of the repulsion characterises how ‘strong’ the chaos is. In this talk, I will focus on the example of the microstates of a supersymmetric black holes with macroscopic horizon, namely the D1-D5-P system. I will explain how the ability to find ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ chaos is related to how the microstates are organised into some particular subgroups, and to the logarithmic corrections of the entropy. Finally, I will show how this organisational problem translates into a statistical-mechanics problem and discuss the physical implications. (Work in progress with N. Ceplak, S. Massai and M. Shigemori.)

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