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Researcher
Thomas Mertens
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45
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2026
Quantum group origins of edge states in double-scaled SYK
Andreas Belaey
Thomas Mertens
Thomas Tappeiner
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2026
2025
An entropic puzzle in periodic dilaton gravity and DSSYK
Andreas Blommaert
Adam Levine
Thomas Mertens
Jacopo Papalini
Klaas Parmentier
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2025
The dilaton gravity hologram of double-scaled SYK
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Jacopo Papalini
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2025
Wormholes, branes and finite matrices in sine dilaton gravity
Andreas Blommaert
Adam Levine
Thomas Mertens
Jacopo Papalini
Klaas Parmentier
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2025
2024
Branes in JT (super)gravity from group theory
Andreas Belaey
Francesca Mariani
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2024
Dynamical actions and q-representation theory for double-scaled SYK
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Shunyu Yao
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2024
Gravitational wavefunctions in JT supergravity
Andreas Belaey
Francesca Mariani
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2024
The q-Schwarzian and Liouville gravity
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Shunyu Yao
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2024
2023
A proposal for 3d quantum gravity and its bulk factorization
Thomas Mertens
Joan Simón
Gabriel Wong
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2023
Operational islands and black hole dissipation in JT gravity
Julian De Vuyst
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2023
Quantum exponentials for the modular double and applications in gravity models
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2023
Solvable models of quantum black holes: a review on Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity
Thomas Mertens
Gustavo J. Turiaci
A1
Journal Article
in
LIVING REVIEWS IN RELATIVITY
2023
2022
From quantum groups to Liouville and dilaton quantum gravity
Yale Fan
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2022
Supergroup structure of Jackiw-Teitelboim supergravity
Yale Fan
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2022
2021
Degenerate operators in JT and Liouville (super)gravity
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2021
Eigenbranes in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2021
Liouville quantum gravity : holography, JT and matrices
Thomas Mertens
Gustavo J. Turiaci
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2021
Unruh detectors and quantum chaos in JT gravity
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2021
2020
Quantum gravity in two dimensions
Andreas Blommaert
Henri Verschelde
Thomas Mertens
Dissertation
2020
2019
Clocks and rods in Jackiw-Teitelboim quantum gravity
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2019
Defects in Jackiw-Teitelboim quantum gravity
Thomas Mertens
Gustavo J. Turiaci
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2019
Fine structure of Jackiw-Teitelboim quantum gravity
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2019
Towards black hole evaporation in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2019
2018
Edge dynamics from the path integral : Maxwell and Yang-Mills
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2018
Edge state quantization : vector fields in Rindler
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2018
Holographic estimate of heavy quark diffusion in a magnetic field
David Dudal
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2018
Shockwave S-matrix from Schwarzian quantum mechanics
Ho Tat Lam
Thomas Mertens
Gustavo J Turiaci
Herman Verlinde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2018
The Schwarzian theory : a Wilson line perspective
Andreas Blommaert
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2018
The Schwarzian theory : origins
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2018
2017
Solving the Schwarzian via the conformal bootstrap
Thomas Mertens
Gustavo J Turiaci
Herman L Verlinde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2017
2016
An investigation of AdS2 backreaction and holography
Julius Engelsöy
Thomas Mertens
Herman Verlinde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2016
No inverse magnetic catalysis in the QCD hard and soft wall models
David Dudal
Diego Rocha Granado
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2016
Revisiting noninteracting string partition functions in Rindler space
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2016
String theory in polar coordinates and the vanishing of the one-loop Rindler entropy
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I. Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2016
The long string at the stretched horizon and the entropy of large non-extremal black holes
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2016
The thermal scalar and random walks in curved spacetime
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
FORTSCHRITTE DER PHYSIK-PROGRESS OF PHYSICS
2016
2015
Hagedorn string thermodynamics in curved spacetimes and near black hole horizons
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Dissertation
2015
Melting of charmonium in a magnetic field from an effective AdS/QCD model
David Dudal
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2015
Perturbative string thermodynamics near black hole horizons
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2015
Radiation gauge in AdS/QCD : inadmissibility and implications on spectral functions in the deconfined phase
David Dudal
Thomas Mertens
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICS LETTERS B
2015
2014
Near-Hagedorn thermodynamics and random walks : extensions and examples
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2014
Near-Hagedorn thermodynamics and random walks: a general formalism in curved backgrounds
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2014
On the relevance of the thermal scalar
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2014
Random walks in Rindler spacetime and string theory at the tip of the cigar
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2014
The thermal scalar and random walks in AdS3 and BTZ
Thomas Mertens
Henri Verschelde
Valentin I Zakharov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2014