
Dr Mike Blake
BA, MMath, PhD
Current positions
Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics
School of Mathematics
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Research interests
I am a mathematical physicist working at the intersection of high energy theory, gravity and quantum physics. The main goal of my research is to use quantum field theory and string theory techniques to gain new insights into quantum many-body dynamics. Much of my research makes use of holography, which provides a class of strongly coupled quantum field theories that have a dual description in terms of the physics of black holes in anti-de Sitter space. In the last few years my research has focused on scrambling and many-body chaos in holographic systems and in quantum field theory, and in particular on the connection between many-body chaos and hydrodynamics. I also retain a strong interest in developing fundamental bounds on the propagation of chaos, entanglement and quantum information in many-body systems. Potential Ph.D. students interested in quantum field theory/holography are welcome to contact me for further information about my research and the Ph.D. opportunities available at Bristol.
Full details of my publications can be found at any of the websites listed below:
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8092 Divya Patel studentship
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of MathematicsDates
01/09/2023 to 31/08/2028
Strongly interacting quantum dynamics
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of MathematicsDates
01/09/2023 to 31/08/2028
Strongly interacting quantum dynamics
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of MathematicsDates
01/09/2023 to 31/08/2028
Publications
Selected publications
19/10/2018A quantum hydrodynamical description for scrambling and many-body chaos
Journal of High Energy Physics
Many-body chaos and energy dynamics in holography
Journal of High Energy Physics
Thermal diffusivity and chaos in metals without quasiparticles
Physical Review D
Universal Charge Diffusion and the Butterfly Effect in Holographic Theories
Physical Review Letters
Recent publications
25/10/2024Fast Scrambling in Classically Simulable Quantum Circuits
Fast Scrambling in Classically Simulable Quantum Circuits
Chaos and pole-skipping in a simply spinning plasma
Journal of High Energy Physics
The Page curve from the entanglement membrane
Journal of High Energy Physics
Snowmass White Paper: New ideas for many-body quantum systems from string theory and black holes
Chaos and pole-skipping in rotating black holes
Journal of High Energy Physics