Archive of IAS Monday High Energy Theory Seminars

Motivated by black hole physics and holography, we study chaos, scrambling, and complexity by considering the entanglement properties of unitary operators. First, we develop a diagnostic of chaos by directly considering the time evolution of a...

During the first LHC long shutdown, the CMS collaboration finalised the study of the 8TeV data collected in 2012. Within the impressive amount of results produced, a few searches for new physics show a tension with the prediction from the Standard...

I will present a new area law in General Relativity. This new area law holds on local analogues of event horizons that have an independent thermodynamic significance due to the Bousso bound. I will also discuss a quantum generalization of this more...

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability of states and plays a central in quantum information theory. We argue that it is a natural generalization of free energy to far from equilibrium states. A generalization of the standard replica...

I present a solution to the electroweak hierarchy problem which involves the relaxation of the Higgs mass in the early universe. I will briefly discuss the limits of validity of the model as well as potential experimental signatures.

Spontaneously broken conformal invariance appears in many contexts such as a class of Higgs portal models, N>=2 SYM on its Coulomb branch, inflation and target space string theory. In observables this broken symmetry is shown to lead to soft...

Six dimensional superconformal quantum field theories are in between the most interesting quantum systems whose existence is guaranteed by stringy arguments. In this seminar I am going to discuss some aspects of their geometric engineering using F...