nLab Leonard Susskind

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Selected writings

Early suggestion that confined QCD is described by regarding the color-flux tubes as string-like dynamical degrees of freedoms (cf. gauge/string duality):

• John Kogut, Leonard Susskind, Vacuum polarization and the absence of free quarks in four dimensions, Phys. Rev. D 9 (1974) 3501-3512 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.9.3501]

• John Kogut, Leonard Susskind, Hamiltonian formulation of Wilson’s lattice gauge theories, Phys. Rev. D 11 (1975) 395 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.11.395]

  “The gauge-invariant configuration space consists of a collection of strings with quarks at their ends. The strings are lines of non-Abelian electric flux. In the strong coupling limit the dynamics is best described in terms of these strings. Quark confinement is a result of the inability to break a string without producing a pair. […]”

  “The confining mechanism is the appearance of one dimensional electric flux tubes which must link separated quarks. The appropriate description of the strongly coupled limit consists of a theory of interacting, propagating strings. […]”

  “This picture of the strongly coupled Yang-Mills theory in terms of a collection of stringlike flux lines is the central result of our analysis. It should be compared with the phenomenological use of stringlike degrees of freedom which has been widely used in describing hadrons.”

Introducing the holographic principle:

• Leonard Susskind, The World as a hologram, J. Math. Phys. 36 (1995) 6377-6396 [hep-th/9409089, doi:10.1063/1.531249]

Introducing the BFSS matrix model (M-theory as D0-brane quantum mechanics in non-perturbative type IIA string theory):

• Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, Stephen Shenker, Leonard Susskind, M Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture Phys. Rev. D55 (1997). (arXiv:hep-th/9610043)

• Leonard Susskind, Another Conjecture about M(atrix) Theory (arXiv:hep-th/9704080)

In view of flat space holography:

• Leonard Susskind, Holography in the flat space limit, AIP Conf.Proc. 493 (1999) 1, 98-112, (spire, arXiv:hep-th/9901079, doi:10.1063/1.1301570)

On black holes in string theory via the BFSS matrix model:

• Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, Igor Klebanov, Leonard Susskind, Schwarzschild Black Holes from Matrix Theory, Phys.Rev.Lett.80:226-229,1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9709091)

• Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, Igor Klebanov, Leonard Susskind, Schwarzchild Black Holes in Matrix Theory II, JHEP 9801:008,1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9711005)

• Igor Klebanov, Leonard Susskind, Schwarzschild Black Holes in Various Dimensions from Matrix Theory, Phys.Lett.B 416 62-66 (1998) [arXiv:hep-th/9709108]

Introducing the notion of giant gravitons:

• John McGreevy, Leonard Susskind, Nicolaos Toumbas, Invasion of the Giant Gravitons from Anti-de Sitter Space, JHEP 0006:008, 2000 (arXiv:hep-th/0003075)

Proposing ER = EPR:

• Juan Maldacena, Leonard Susskind, Cool horizons for entangled black holes, Fortsch. Phys. 61 (2013) 781-811, 2013 (arXiv:1306.0533, doi:10.1002/prop.201300020)

Interviews

• Y Combinator: Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics (Dec 2018) [YT]

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  49:00

  S:… rules of quantum mechanics which reflect the gravitational things…, but this is gonna get us into technical discussion

  Y: let’s do it!

  S: No!

  Y: Yes!

  S grudgingly gives in

  …

  53:57

  Y: and what was the technical part you wanted to get to?

  S: uhm

• Kristiane Bernhard-Novotny: Lost in the landscape, interview with Susskind for CernCourier (3 Mar 2023)

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