Physics

Informal High Energy Theory Seminar

September 24, 2013 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm
It will be argued that essentially all the deep concepts of perturbative quantum field theory could have been discovered in non-quantum (classical) field theories. These include Feynman diagrams, effective actions, divergences, regularization...

High Energy Theory Seminar

September 23, 2013 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Long-range entangled qubits (or quantum spins) from new states of matter whose low energy effective theory realize topological quantum field theories. Those topologically ordered states of purely bosonic qubits can produce emergent gauge theory and...

High Energy Theory Seminar

September 20, 2013 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm
AdS/CFT is a duality relating the degrees of freedom in a D dimensional bulk gravity theory to a (D-1) dimensional theory living on the boundary.
I will argue that in fact the boundary theory contains only a subset of the bulk observables. For each...