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We study the $T\overline{T}$ deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories from a Hamiltonian point of view, focusing on aspects of the theory in Lorentzian signature. Our starting point is a simple rewriting of the spatial integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Jorrit Kruthoff , Onkar Parrikar

We show that the $T \overline{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theory on $\mathrm{AdS}_2$ is well-defined and solvable at the quantum level. Flow equations for the energy spectrum and partition function are derived in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 T. Daniel Brennan , Christian Ferko , Emil Martinec , Savdeep Sethi

This review explores recent advances in the theory of $T\bar{T}$ deformation, an irrelevant yet solvable deformation of quantum field theories defined via the quadratic form of the energy-momentum tensor. It addresses classical and quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Song He , Yi Li , Hao Ouyang , Yuan Sun

In this letter we introduce a one-parameter deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theories generated by a non-analytic operator which we call Root-$T \overline{T}$. For a conformal field theory, the operator coincides with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Christian Ferko , Alessandro Sfondrini , Liam Smith , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

$T\overline{T}$-deformed two-dimensional quantum Maxwell theory on the torus is examined, taking into account nonperturbative effects in the deformation parameter $\mu$. We study the deformed partition function solving the relevant flow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Luca Griguolo , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

We provide a simple geometric meaning for deformations of so-called $T{\overline T}$ type in relativistic and non-relativistic systems. Deformations by the cross products of energy and momentum currents in integrable quantum field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 John Cardy , Benjamin Doyon

We investigate the behaviour of two-dimensional quantum field theories with $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ supersymmetry under a deformation induced by the `$T\bar{T}$' composite operator. We show that the deforming operator can be defined by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-17 Hongliang Jiang , Alessandro Sfondrini , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

The $T{\bar T}$ deformation of a relativistic two-dimensional theory results in a solvable gravitational theory. Deformed scattering amplitudes can be obtained from coupling the undeformed theory to the flat space Jackiw--Teitelboim (JT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-13 Sergei Dubovsky , Victor Gorbenko , Guzman Hernandez-Chifflet

The irrelevant composite operator $T\bar{T}$, constructed from components of the stress-energy tensor, exhibits unique properties in two-dimensional quantum field theories and represents a distinctive form of integrable deformation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Nicolò Brizio , Tommaso Morone , Roberto Tateo

We show the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theories is equivalent to replacing the spacetime dependence of the fields with dependence on the indices of infinitely large matrices. We show how this correspondence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Vasudev Shyam , Yigit Yargic

We present a semiclassical framework in which stress-tensor deformations of a quantum field theory (QFT) reorganize into a gravitational action evaluated at a metric saddle. The deformed partition function can be written as a gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Yun-Ze Li , Yunfei Xie , Song He

In this paper, we continue the study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation in $d=1$ quantum mechanical systems and propose possible analogues of $J\bar{T}$ deformation and deformation by a general linear combination of $T\bar{T}$ and $J\bar{T}$ in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Soumangsu Chakraborty , Amiya Mishra

It was noticed many years ago, in the framework of massless RG flows, that the irrelevant composite operator $T \bar{T}$, built with the components of the energy-momentum tensor, enjoys very special properties in 2D quantum field theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Andrea Cavaglià , Stefano Negro , István M. Szécsényi , Roberto Tateo

We study Zamolodchikov's TT* deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories in a 't Hooft-like limit, in which we scale the number of degrees of freedom c to infinity and the deformation parameter t to zero, keeping their product t*c…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Ofer Aharony , Talya Vaknin

It has recently been proposed that Zamoldchikov's $T \bar{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional CFTs describes the holographic theory dual to AdS$_3$ at finite radius. In this note we use the Gauss-Codazzi form of the Einstein equations to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-29 Marika Taylor

This is a pedagogical review on $\mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}}$ deformation of two dimensional quantum field theories. It is based on three lectures which the author gave at ITP-CAS in December 2018. This review consists of four parts.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Yunfeng Jiang

We point out that the arguments of Zamolodchikov and others on the $T\overline T$ and similar deformations of two-dimensional field theories may be extended to the more general non-Lorentz invariant case, for example non-relativistic and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-26 John Cardy

We propose a manifestly supersymmetric generalization of the solvable $T \overline{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional field theories. For theories with $(1,1)$ and $(0,1)$ supersymmetry, the deformation is defined by adding a term to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Chih-Kai Chang , Christian Ferko , Savdeep Sethi

Complexity in quantum physics measures how difficult a state can be reached from a reference state and more precisely it is the number of fundamental unitary gates we have to operate to transform the reference state to the state we are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-05 Hao Geng

In this paper, we generalize the deformations driven by the stress-energy tensor $T$ and investigate their relation to the flow equation for the background metric at the classical level. For a deformation operator $\mathcal{O}$ as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-02 Xi-Yang Ran , Feng Hao , Masatoshi Yamada
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