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The Universe from a Single Particle

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-26 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We explore the emergence of many-body physics from quantum mechanics via spontaneous symmetry breaking. To this end, we study potentials which are functionals on the space of Hamiltonians enjoying an unstable critical point corresponding to a random quantum mechanical system (the Gaussian unitary ensemble), but also less symmetrical local minima corresponding to interacting systems at the level of operators.

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@article{arxiv.2011.05917,
  title  = {The Universe from a Single Particle},
  author = {Michael Freedman and Modjtaba Shokrian Zini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.05917},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Published in JHEP

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