CMSA Quantum Matter/Quantum Field Theory Seminar: Traversable wormholes in four and two dimensions

In four dimensions I present a solution based on two magnetically charged black holes. It is a solution of classical Einstein gravity which requires U(1) gauge field and massless fermions only and it does not need exotic matter or boundary conditions. It is a long wormhole that does not lead to causality violations in the ambient space. Very similar wormholes in two dimensional Jackiw–Teitelboim(JT) gravity can be constructed in Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev(SYK) model, where one can study the real-time formation of the wormhole numerically. I will explain similarities and differences between these four- and two-dimensional solutions and argue that in SYK the formation of the wormhole is smooth and takes time independent of N in the large N limit.