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Emergence of graviton-like excitations from a lattice model

Name: Emergence of graviton-like excitations from a lattice model
Start: 2019-12-04T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2019-12-04T17:30:00-05:00

December 4, 2019 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT)

Title: Emergence of graviton–like excitations from a lattice model

Abstract: I will review some construction of lattice rotor model which give rise to emergent photons and graviton–like excitations. The appearance of vector-like charge and symmetric tensor field may be related to gapless fracton phases.

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Date:: December 4, 2019
Time:: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Event Category:: Colloquium