Physics

High Energy Theory Seminar

November 03, 2014 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

I will consider the case of a CFT deformed by a relevant perturbation resulting in a mass gap. I will argue that in such a case, operators of high scaling-dimension can decouple exponentially quickly from low-energy bound states. This observation...

High Energy Theory Seminar

October 20, 2014 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

We present new results for Renyi entropy in CFT ground states. In particular, we describe advances in computation across non-spherical entangling surfaces and for generic Renyi index, applicable to arbitrary CFTs. These include the first rigorous...

High Energy Theory Seminar

October 10, 2014 | 1:45pm - 2:45pm

I’ll describe how to define and compute Euclidean partition functions of 4d N=1 theories on spaces that look like a circle times a simple three manifold. These partition functions can be interpreted as supersymmetric indices: supertraces over the...