Basic Information
- zhenbiny (at) tsinghua.edu.cn
Zhenbin Yang
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University
Research Areas
Quantum gravity, AdS/CFT, black holes, quantum chaos, JT gravity, the SYK model, wormholes, and de Sitter space.
Education
- 2014-2019, Ph.D. in Science, Princeton University.
- 2010-2014, B.S., University of Science and Technology of China.
Employment
- 2023-present, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University.
- 2019-2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University.
Research Summary
Zhenbin Yang works on quantum gravity, black-hole information, and AdS/CFT, especially where wormholes and ensemble effects reshape semiclassical intuition. His recent work on traversable-wormhole channel capacity, de Sitter density of states, de Sitter double cones, SYK fortuity, and spacetime generalizations of mutual information studies how information-theoretic quantities behave in genuinely gravitational Hilbert spaces. Earlier and continuing work on genus expansions, spectral plateaus, firewalls from wormholes, Holevo information, and subleading Weingarten effects develops the same theme from the viewpoint of replica wormholes and ensemble gravity.
Representative Publications
- J. Maldacena, D. Stanford, Z. Yang, “Conformal symmetry and its breaking in two-dimensional nearly anti-de Sitter space,” PTEP 2016 (2016) 12.
- J. Maldacena, D. Stanford, Z. Yang, “Diving into traversable wormholes,” Fortschr. Phys. 65 (2017) 1700034.
- Z. Yang, “The quantum gravity dynamics of near extremal black holes,” JHEP (2019).
- G. Penington, S. H. Shenker, D. Stanford, Z. Yang, “Replica wormholes and the black hole interior,” JHEP (2022).
- D. Stanford, Z. Yang, “Firewalls from wormholes,” arXiv:2208.01625.