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arXiv:2203.04718

Snowmass White Paper: New ideas for many-body quantum systems from string theory and black holes

Mike Blake, Yingfei Gu, Sean A. Hartnoll, Hong Liu, Andrew Lucas, Krishna Rajagopal, Brian G. Swingle, Beni Yoshida

Published Mar 9, 2022• 5 citations
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Abstract

During the last two decades many new insights into the dynamics of strongly coupled quantum many-body systems have been obtained using gauge/gravity duality, with black holes often playing a universal role. In this white paper we summarize the results obtained and offer some outlook for future developments, including the ongoing mutually beneficial feedback loop with the study of more general, not necessarily holographic, quantum many-body systems.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2203.04718

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