Virtual Seminar: Jorrit Kruthoff 'TTbar in AdS2 and Quantum Mechanics'

Quantum field theory in zero spatial dimensions has a rich infrared landscape and a universal ultraviolet, inverting the usual Wilsonian paradigm. For holographic theories this implies a rich landscape of asymptotically AdS2 geometries. Isolating the interiors of these spacetimes suggests a study of the analog of the TTbar deformation in quantum mechanics, which Jorrit Kruthoff (Stanford) pursues in this talk. An equivalent description of this deformation in terms of coupling to worldline gravity is proposed, and applications to quantum mechanical systems - including the Schwarzian theory - are studied.

This talk was recorded on November 15, 2019 at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam-Golm.