Transport in large-N critical Fermi surface
Speaker: Haoyu Guo (Harvard) Title: Transport in large-N critical Fermi surface Abstract: A Fermi surface coupled to a scalar field can be described in a 1/N expansion by choosing the fermion-scalar […]
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During 2024–25, the CMSA will host a seminar on Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics, organized by Ahsan Khan, Robert Moscrop, and Sunghyuk Park.
This seminar will take place on Fridays at 9:00–10:30 am (Eastern Time) through October. In November, seminars will be held from 10:00–11:30 am. To learn how to attend this seminar, please fill out this form.
The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Videos are available at the Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Youtube Playlist
Gifts from anomalies: new results on quantum critical transport in non- Fermi liquids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSeu7ykzLs&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=5 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar Speaker: Zhengyan Darius Shi (MIT) Title: Gifts from anomalies: new results on quantum critical transport in non-Fermi liquids Abstract: Non-Fermi liquid phenomena arise […]
Non-invertible Symmetries in Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq_XXzbFr18&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=3 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Speaker: Yichul Cho (SUNY Stony Brook) Title: Non-invertible Symmetries in Nature Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss non-invertible symmetries in familiar 3+1d […]
Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ED61O0f0Y&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=2 Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Speaker: Avner Karasik (University of Cambridge, UK) Title: Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities Abstract: In the talk I will discuss the possibility and the […]
Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBHTwt_dptc&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJQAnYwkpt9PN2PBKx4rvdup&index=1 Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Justin Kulp (Perimeter Institute) Title: Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM Abstract: Supersymmetric QFT's are of long-standing interest for their high degree of solvability, […]
Topological Wick Rotation and Holographic duality
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Liang Kong (Sustech) Title: Topological Wick Rotation and Holographic duality Abstract: I will explain a new type of holographic dualities between n+1D topological orders with a […]
On the six-dimensional origin of non-invertible symmetries
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala University) Title: On the six-dimensional origin of non-invertible symmetries Abstract: I will present a review about recent progress in charting non-invertible symmetries […]
Insulating BECs and other surprises in dipole-conserving systems
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Ethan Lake (MIT) Title: Insulating BECs and other surprises in dipole-conserving systems Abstract: I will discuss recent work on bosonic models whose dynamics conserves both total charge and total […]
Unorientable Quantum Field Theories: From crosscaps to holography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2colQwY34 Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: João Caetano (CERN) Title: Unorientable Quantum Field Theories: From crosscaps to holography Abstract: In two dimensions, one can study quantum field theories on unorientable manifolds […]
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics in integrable quantum magnets
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Francisco Machado (Berkeley/Harvard) Title: Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics in integrable quantum magnets Abstract: Although the equations of motion that govern quantum mechanics are well-known, understanding the emergent macroscopic behavior that arises […]
Topological symmetry in field theory
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Daniel S. Freed (U Texas) Title: Topological symmetry in field theory Abstract: Recently there has been lots of activity surrounding generalized notions of symmetry in quantum […]
Topology of the Fermi sea: Ordinary metals as topological materials
Quantum Matter Seminar Speaker: Pok Man Tam (University of Pennsylvania) Title: Topology of the Fermi sea: Ordinary metals as topological materials Abstract: It has long been known that the quantum […]