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We present evidence for a duality between Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity minimally coupled to a free massive scalar field and a single-trace two-matrix model. One matrix is the Hamiltonian $H$ of a holographic disorder-averaged quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Daniel Louis Jafferis , David K. Kolchmeyer , Baur Mukhametzhanov , Julian Sonner

How is a ''bulk clock'' encoded holographically? We address this in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, where a natural physical clock emerges by promoting the vacuum energy to a dynamical variable: the vacuum cosmological constant becomes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Altay Etkin , Farbod-Sayyed Rassouli

The Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) model arises from the dimensional reduction of charged black holes. Motivated by the holographic complexity conjecture, we calculate the late-time rate of change of action of a Wheeler-DeWitt patch in the JT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Adam R. Brown , Hrant Gharibyan , Henry W. Lin , Leonard Susskind , Larus Thorlacius , Ying Zhao

The Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with the matter degrees of freedom is considered. The classical model is exactly solvable and its solutions describe non-trivial gravitational scattering of matter wave-packets. For huge amount of the solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Klimcik

The interplay between black hole interior dynamics and quantum chaos provides a crucial framework for probing quantum effects in quantum gravity. In this work, we investigate non-perturbative overlaps in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Masamichi Miyaji , Shan-Ming Ruan , Shono Shibuya , Kazuyoshi Yano

In Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, the naive Schwarzian quantum mechanics leads to a continuous bulk spectrum, in apparent contradiction with the finite entropy of the black hole, which requires a discrete spectrum with level spacing of order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Dongsu Bak , Chanju Kim , Sang-Heon Yi

In this paper we use the covariant Peierls bracket to compute the algebra of a sizable number of diffeomorphism-invariant observables in classical Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to fairly arbitrary matter. We then show that many recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Daniel Harlow , Jie-qiang Wu

We present a comprehensive and technically rigorous analysis of the status of Birkhoff's theorem in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, a paradigmatic two-dimensional model for studying semiclassical gravitational dynamics. While Birkhoff's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 D. Momeni

We obtain an action for a generalized conformal mechanics (GCM) coupled to Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity from a double scaling limit of the motion of a charged massive particle in the near-horizon geometry of a near-extremal spherical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Archi Banerjee , Tanay Kibe , Martín Molina , Ayan Mukhopadhyay

A large class of two dimensional quantum gravity theories of Jackiw-Teitelboim form have a description in terms of random matrix models. Such models, treated fully non-perturbatively, can give an explicit and tractable description of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Clifford V. Johnson

We calculate bulk and boundary correlators in JT gravity by summing over geometries. The answers are reproduced by computing suitable ensemble averages of correlators of chaotic quantum systems. We then consider bulk correlators at large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-26 Andreas Blommaert

We study a two-dimensional theory of gravity coupled to matter that is relevant to describe holographic properties of black holes with a single rotational parameter in five dimensions (with or without cosmological constant). We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Alejandra Castro , Juan F. Pedraza , Chiara Toldo , Evita Verheijden

We argue that a discrete bulk spectrum with random statistics appears naturally in the Lorentzian description of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity if an extra confining potential is introduced in the region where the renormalized geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Dongsu Bak , Chanju Kim , Sang-Heon Yi

Observables in quantum gravity are famously defined asymptotically, at the boundary of AdS or Minkowski spaces. However, by gauge fixing a coordinate system or suitably dressing the field operators, an approximate, "quasi-local" approach is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Francesco Nitti , Federico Piazza , Alexander Taskov

We study closed universes in simple models of two dimensional gravity, such as Jackiw-Teiteilboim (JT) gravity coupled to matter, and a toy topological model that captures the key features of the former. We find there is a stark contrast,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Mykhaylo Usatyuk , Zi-Yue Wang , Ying Zhao

We investigate structural aspects of JT gravity through its BF description. In particular, we provide evidence that JT gravity should be thought of as (a coset of) the noncompact subsemigroup SL$^+$(2,R) BF theory. We highlight physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-23 Andreas Blommaert , Thomas G. Mertens , Henri Verschelde

The study of 2-dimensional surfaces of constant curvature constitutes a beautiful branch of geometry with well-documented ties to the mathematical physics of integrable systems. A lesser known, but equally fascinating, fact is its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 Jeff Murugan

Quantum black holes are described by a large number of macroscopically indistinguishable microstates. Correlation functions of fields outside the horizon at long time separation probe this indistinguishability. The simplest of these, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-24 Phil Saad

In this paper, we investigate a critical behavior of JT gravity, a model of two-dimensional quantum gravity on constant negatively curved spacetimes. Our approach involves using techniques from random maps to investigate the generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-25 Alicia Castro

We study two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity on the disk topology by using a BF gauge theory in the presence of a boundary term. The system can be equivalently written in a supersymmetric way by introducing auxiliary gauginos and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-06 Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara