Physics

Abstract: Conformal field theories in 3D are central to condensed-matter and high-energy physics. Among them, critical gauge theories, especially Chern-Simons-matter theories, stand out: They describe transitions where one or both phases are...

Abstract: Using scattering amplitudes dispersion relations, we demonstrate that in tree-level completions of gravity, for a broad class of symmetry groups, the existence of finitely many charged particles necessitates the existence of infinitely...

Abstract: It is commonly believed that exact infra-red (IR) solutions for renormalization group (RG) flows are rare to come by. In this talk, we will consider codimension-one RG flows from pinning fields coupled to bulk local operators in conformal...

Abstract: Entanglement Bootstrap is a research program to understand and extract the universal data of quantum many body states from local entanglement information.  Since this universal data is usually encoded in a quantum field theory, the program...

Abstract: In AdS/CFT, a spacetime geometry is said to contain a python's lunch when there exist choices of boundary regions with associated entanglement wedges that contain locally but not globally minimal surfaces. Previously, such geometries have...

Abstract: I will sketch a theory of finite, generalized symmetries of 2D QFTs which live at the boundary of a bulk topological theory in one higher dimension, emphasizing various new ingredients which arise in the presence of a nontrivial bulk. This...

Program Organizers:
Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonah Kudler-Flam, Institute for Advanced Study
Henry Lin, Princeton University
Juan Maldacena, Institute for...