Operator dressing & proto-gauge theory from quantum mereology

9 Jul 2025, 12:40
20m
Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE)

Amphithéâtre Charpak

LPNHE

4 Place Jussieu 75005 Paris Tour 22
Oral contribution WG1 High Energy QG Theory 3

Speaker

Dr Oliver Friedrich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Description

Instead of quantizing a classical phase space, the program of quantum mereology takes abstract Hamiltonian operators defined in some Hilbert space as its starting point, and investigates under which conditions such a setting induces semi-classical dynamics. We advance this program by studying the emergence of entire sets of degrees-of-freedom from random Hamiltonians. We show that these emergent degrees-of-freedom can be interpreted as the modes of a proto-gauge theory. And we demonstrate that these modes are overlapping, i.e. they obey non-trivial commutation relations and are reminiscent of (e.g. gravitationally) dressed operators and of the framework of holographic QFT that we recently proposed in https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11016 .

Working Group WG1 - High Energy QG Theory

Author

Dr Oliver Friedrich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Co-author

Varun Kushwaha (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

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