4–7 Mar 2026
Department of Physics, University of Michigan
America/Detroit timezone

Yiming Chen (Stanford University) - Fortuity and Bootstrap in Supersymmetric Matrix Quantum Mechanics

6 Mar 2026, 15:15
1h 15m
West Hall 340 (Department of Physics, University of Michigan)

West Hall 340

Department of Physics, University of Michigan

1085 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Description

Abstract: It has recently been proposed that supersymmetric black hole microstates exhibit “fortuity”: their very existence depends sensitively on the finite, precise values of N, the number of degrees of freedom in the dual theory. In the first half of the talk, I will discuss a simple matrix quantum mechanical model with a single adjoint fermion, that is exactly solvable yet contains a large number of fortuitous states. In the second half of the talk, by utilizing this model as a benchmark, I will describe an ongoing attempt in using the large N matrix bootstrap technique to learn about fortuitous or monotone states in matrix systems.

Presentation materials