Snowmass White Paper: New ideas for many-body quantum systems from string theory and black holes

TL;DR

This white paper reviews recent progress in understanding strongly coupled quantum many-body systems through gauge/gravity duality and black hole physics, highlighting key insights and future directions.

Contribution

It summarizes recent advances in applying gauge/gravity duality to many-body systems and discusses future research avenues beyond holography.

Findings

Black holes provide universal insights into strongly coupled systems.

Gauge/gravity duality has advanced understanding of quantum many-body dynamics.

Future work includes exploring non-holographic quantum systems.

Abstract

During the last two decades many new insights into the dynamics of strongly coupled quantum many-body systems have been obtained using gauge/gravity duality, with black holes often playing a universal role. In this white paper we summarize the results obtained and offer some outlook for future developments, including the ongoing mutually beneficial feedback loop with the study of more general, not necessarily holographic, quantum many-body systems.