Materials Science and Engineering
Laboratory name
Theoretical Physics Laboratory   
Laboratory staff
Laboratory title
弦理論における対称性の自発的破れ
Laboratory overview
我々の宇宙のすべてを記述する統一 理論の最有力候補が弦理論である。弦理論は理論の無矛盾性から非常に高い 対称性を持つが、それがどのように破れて現在の宇宙の対称性が実現しているのかを、弦理論全体の基本的自由度を明らかにすることにより解明 する。
Main research themes
・行列模型による弦理論の非摂動的定式化
・Large-N極限における対称性の自発的破れ
・行列模型が記述する時空構造
・場の理論、弦理論における摂動級数と非摂動効果の関係
Individual research theme
  • Dynamics of wormhole via resurgence

    黒木 経秀

    2022

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    One of the most serious problems in particle physics is that separation between string theory and experiment. This situation leads us to initiate this study with aim to resolve an academic question whether it is possible to construct the first example in which parameters in nature can be fixed by theory of quantum gravity. Motivated by recent understanding of importance of wormhole effect in theory of quantum gravity, we define concretely and nonperturbatively new theory of two-dimensional quantum gravity including contribution of wormholes in advance by taking a continuum limit of a matrix model. We furthermore derive a differential equation for its free energy. In this derivation, we adopt techniques of orthogonal polynomials, or idea of resurgence with which I am familiar. From the equation we confirm the idea by Coleman that the cosmological constant is determined by sum over wormholes and thus we show that our model is indeed the first example that resolves one of the most important problems in quantum gravity, although it is in lower dimensions. Moreover, from the differential equation we get some insight into effect of quantum gravity in information loss problem of black hole.

  • Hawking radiation in BEC

    黒木 経秀

    2023

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    We get insights into resolution of information loss problem of black hole by analyzing the BEC Hamiltonian in quantum mechanical manner. The BEC Hamiltonian is well-defined quantum mechanically, and it is known to have Hawking radiation as a model of analog gravity. We thus derive Hawking radiation and its entanglement entropy by quantum mechanical analysis of BEC Hamiltonian and investigate various quantities like Page curve which play important role in information loss problem, The aim of this study is to get insights into resolution of information loss problem through these analyses. In particular, we take account of effect of back reaction consistently which is difficult to do in theory of real gravity.

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    2023
    In order to define our BEC theory, we fix parameters in the BEC Hamiltonian in such a way that it realizes the set up considered in the literature. As a result, we find that there are some important restrictions from consistency of the theory which are overlooked in the literature. We also show that back reaction can be taken into account in systematic manner by separating background and fluctuation around it in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, and considering them iteratively. Based on this observation, we derive back reaction from Hawking radiation as a two-point function, and by using it, we can obtain explicitly a wave function of fluctuation around background subject to back reaction.