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Signatures of Bulk Topology from the 't Hooft Worldsheet
Jackson R. Fliss, Alexander Frenkel
We study entanglement entropy in a certain ansatz of matrix quantum mechanics (MQM) wavefunctions which behave as generating functionals for a planar 't Hooft expansion. We argue t…
What's the Matter with 3D Gravity?
Robert Bourne, Jackson R. Fliss, Bob Knighton
We revisit the problem of minimally coupling matter to Einstein gravity in three dimensions with negative cosmological constant. By working in the worldline formalism, we construct…
Fortuity and Complexity in a Simple Quark Model
Jackson R. Fliss, Vishnu Jejjala, Onkar Parrikar
We observe and elaborate on a structural similarity between the categorization of monotone and fortuitous BPS operators in supersymmetric theories and gauge invariant quark operato…
Modave lectures on energy conditions in quantum field theory and semi-classical gravity
Jackson R. Fliss
We review well known classical energy conditions and their implications for gravitational solutions, including the celebrated Hawking and Penrose singularity theorems. We then cons…
Matrix Quantum Mechanics and Entanglement Entropy: A Review
Jackson R. Fliss, Alexander Frenkel
We review aspects of entanglement entropy in the quantum mechanics of matrices, i.e. matrix quantum mechanics (MQM), at large . In doing so we review standard models…
Curious QNEIs from QNEC: New Bounds on Null Energy in Quantum Field Theory
Jackson R. Fliss, Andrew Rolph
We derive new families of quantum null energy inequalities (QNEIs), i.e. bounds on integrated null energy, in quantum field theories in two and higher dimensions. These are univers…
Medicine show: A Calogero model with principal series states
Tarek Anous, Jackson R. Fliss, Jeremy van der Heijden
The Calogero model is an interacting, -particle, -invariant quantum mechanics, whose Hilbert space is furnished by a tower of discrete series modules…
A spool for every quotient: One-loop partition functions in AdS gravity
Robert Bourne, Jackson R. Fliss, Bob Knighton
The Wilson spool is a prescription for expressing one-loop determinants as topological line operators in three-dimensional gravity. We extend this program to describe massive spinn…
Massive fields and Wilson spools in JT gravity
Jackson R. Fliss
We give a prescription for minimally coupling massive matter to JT gravity with either sign of cosmological constant directly in its formulation as a topological BF theory. This co…
How negative can null energy be in large N CFTs?
Jackson R. Fliss, Ben Freivogel, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou +1
Smeared null energy has been shown to be bounded from below for free minimally coupled quantum field theories. This is not the case for conformally coupled free bosonic theories wh…
Minimal Areas from Entangled Matrices
Jackson R. Fliss, Alexander Frenkel, Sean A. Hartnoll +1
We define a relational notion of a subsystem in theories of matrix quantum mechanics and show how the corresponding entanglement entropy can be given as a minimisation, exhibiting…
Spinning up the spool: Massive spinning fields in 3d quantum gravity
Robert Bourne, Alejandra Castro, Jackson R. Fliss
We show how to incorporate massive spinning fields into the Euclidean path integral of three-dimensional quantum gravity via its Chern-Simons formulation. The coupling of the spinn…
Entanglement in BF theory II: Edge-modes
Jackson R. Fliss, Stathis Vitouladitis
We consider the entanglement entropy arising from edge-modes in Abelian -form topological field theories in dimensions on arbitrary spatial topology and across arbitrary ent…
Non-minimal coupling, negative null energy, and effective field theory
Jackson R. Fliss, Ben Freivogel, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou +1
The non-minimal coupling of scalar fields to gravity has been claimed to violate energy conditions, leading to exotic phenomena such as traversable wormholes, even in classical the…
Entanglement in BF theory I: Essential topological entanglement
Jackson R. Fliss, Stathis Vitouladitis
We study the entanglement structure of Abelian topological order described by -form BF theory in arbitrary dimensions. We do so directly in the low-energy topological quantum fi…
Coupling Fields to 3D Quantum Gravity via Chern-Simons Theory
Alejandra Castro, Ioana Coman, Jackson R. Fliss +1
We propose a mechanism that couples matter fields to three-dimensional quantum gravity, which can be used for theories with a positive or negative cosmological constant. Our propos…
Keeping matter in the loop in dS quantum gravity
Alejandra Castro, Ioana Coman, Jackson R. Fliss +1
We propose a mechanism that couples matter fields to three-dimensional de Sitter quantum gravity. Our construction is based on the Chern-Simons formulation of three-dimensional Euc…
The double smeared null energy condition
Jackson R. Fliss, Ben Freivogel, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou
The null energy condition (NEC), an important assumption of the Penrose singularity theorem, is violated by quantum fields. The natural generalization of the NEC in quantum field t…
Semi-local Bounds on Null Energy in QFT
Jackson R. Fliss, Ben Freivogel
We investigate whether the null energy, averaged over some region of spacetime, is bounded below in QFT. First, we use light-sheet quantization to prove a version of the "Smeared N…
Entanglement in the quantum Hall fluid of dipoles
Jackson R. Fliss
We revisit a model for gapped fractonic order in (2+1) dimensions (a symmetric-traceless tensor gauge theory with conservation of dipole and trace-quadrupole moments described in \…
Knots, links, and long-range magic
Jackson R. Fliss
We study the extent to which knot and link states (that is, states in 3d Chern-Simons theory prepared by path integration on knot and link complements) can or cannot be described b…
Interfaces and the extended Hilbert space of Chern-Simons theory
Jackson R. Fliss, Robert G. Leigh
The low energy effective field theories of dimensional topological phases of matter provide powerful avenues for investigating entanglement in their ground states. In \cite…
Entanglement Entropy and the Colored Jones Polynomial
Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Jackson Fliss +3
We study the multi-party entanglement structure of states in Chern-Simons theory created by performing the path integral on 3-manifolds with linked torus boundaries, called link co…
Interface Contributions to Topological Entanglement in Abelian Chern-Simons Theory
Jackson R. Fliss, Xueda Wen, Onkar Parrikar +4
We study the entanglement entropy between (possibly distinct) topological phases across an interface using an Abelian Chern-Simons description with topological boundary conditions…