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SUMMARY:On the six-dimensional origin of non-invertible symmetries
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala University) \nTitle: On the six-dimensional origin of non-invertible symmetries \nAbstract: I will present a review about recent progress in charting non-invertible symmetries for four-dimensional quantum field theories that have a six-dimensional origin. These include in particular N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories\, and also a large class of N=2 supersymmetric theories which are conformal and do not have a conventional Lagrangian description (the so-called theories of “class S”). Among the main results\, I will explain criteria for identifying examples of systems with intrinsic and non-intrinsic non-invertible symmetries\, as well as explore their higher dimensional origin. This seminar is based on joint works with Vladimir Bashmakov\, Azeem Hasan\, and Justin Kaidi. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_101822/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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SUMMARY:Topological Wick Rotation and Holographic duality
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Liang Kong (Sustech) \nTitle: Topological Wick Rotation and Holographic duality \nAbstract: I will explain a new type of holographic dualities between\nn+1D topological orders with a chosen boundary condition and nD\n(potentially gapless) quantum liquids. It is based on the idea of\ntopological Wick rotation\, a notion which was first used in\narXiv:1705.01087 and was named\, emphasized and generalized later in\narXiv:1905.04924. Examples of these holographic dualities include the\nduality between 2+1D toric code model and 1+1D Ising chain and its\nfinite-group generalizations (independently discovered by many\nothers); those between 2+1D topological orders and 1+1D rational\nconformal field theories; and those between n+1D finite gauge theories\nwith a gapped boundary and nD gapped quantum liquids. I will also\nbriefly discuss some generalizations of this holographic duality and\nits relation to AdS/CFT duality.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_101722/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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SUMMARY:Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter Seminar \nSpeaker: Justin Kulp (Perimeter Institute) \nTitle: Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM \nAbstract: Supersymmetric QFT’s are of long-standing interest for their high degree of solvability\, phenomenological implications\, and rich connections to mathematics. In my talk\, I will describe how the holomorphic twist isolates the protected quantities which give SUSY QFTs their potency by restricting to the cohomology of one supercharge. I will briefly introduce infinite dimensional symmetry algebras\, generalizing Virasoro and Kac-Moody symmetries\, which emerge. Finally\, I will explain a potential novel UV manifestation of confinement\, dubbed “holomorphic confinement\,” in the example of pure SU(N) super Yang-Mills. Based on arXiv:2207.14321 and 2 forthcoming works with Kasia Budzik\, Davide Gaiotto\, Brian Williams\, Jingxiang Wu\, and Matthew Yu.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qm_tba/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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SUMMARY:Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics \nSpeaker: Avner Karasik (University of Cambridge\, UK)\nTitle: Candidates for Non-Supersymmetric Dualities \nAbstract: In the talk I will discuss the possibility and the obstructions of finding non-supersymmetric dualities for 4d gauge theories. I will review consistency conditions based on Weingarten inequalities\, anomalies and large N\, and clarify some subtle points and misconceptions about them. Later I will go over some old and new examples of candidates for non-supersymmetric dualities. The will be based on 2208.07842 \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/non-invertible-symmetries-in-nature-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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SUMMARY:Non-invertible Symmetries in Nature
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics \n\nSpeaker: Yichul Cho (SUNY Stony Brook)\nTitle: Non-invertible Symmetries in Nature \nAbstract: In this talk\, I will discuss non-invertible symmetries in\nfamiliar 3+1d quantum field theories describing our Nature. In\nmassless QED\, the classical U(1) axial symmetry is not completely\nbroken by the ABJ anomaly. Instead\, it turns into a discrete\,\nnon-invertible symmetry. The non-invertible symmetry operator is\nobtained by dressing the naïve U(1) axial symmetry operator with a\nfractional quantum Hall state. We also find a similar non-invertible\nsymmetry in the massless limit of QCD\, which provides an alternative\nexplanation for the neutral pion decay. In the latter part of the\ntalk\, I will discuss non-invertible time-reversal symmetries in 3+1d\ngauge theories. In particular\, I will show that in free Maxwell\ntheory\, there exists a non-invertible time-reversal symmetry at every\nrational value of the theta angle. \nBased on https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05086 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04331. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/non-invertible-symmetries-in-nature/
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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SUMMARY:Gifts from anomalies: new results on quantum critical transport in non- Fermi liquids
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics Seminar \nSpeaker: Zhengyan Darius Shi (MIT)\n\n\nTitle: Gifts from anomalies: new results on quantum critical transport in non-Fermi liquids\nAbstract: Non-Fermi liquid phenomena arise naturally near Landau ordering transitions in metallic systems. Here\, we leverage quantum anomalies as a powerful nonperturbative tool to calculate optical transport in these models in the infrared limit. While the simplest such models with a single boson flavor (N=1) have zero incoherent conductivity\, a recently proposed large N deformation involving flavor-random Yukawa couplings between N flavors of bosons and fermions admits a nontrivial incoherent conductivity  (z is the boson dynamical exponent) when the order parameter is odd under inversion. The presence of incoherent conductivity in the random flavor model is a consequence of its unusual anomaly structure. From this we conclude that the large N deformation does not share important nonperturbative features with the physical N = 1 model\, though it remains an interesting theory in its own right. Going beyond the IR fixed point\, we also consider the effects of irrelevant operators and show\, within the scope of the RPA expansion\, that the old result   due to Kim et al. is incorrect for inversion-odd order parameters.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/gifts-from-anomalies-new-results-on-quantum-critical-transport-in-non-fermi-liquids/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Quantum Matter
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