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SUMMARY:Conformal Truncation: QFT Dynamics from CFT Data
DTSTART:20171016T140000
DTEND:20171016T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T102747Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Walters\nAny quantum field theory can be thought of as
  arising from a perturbed UV conformal field theory\, suggesting that info
 rmation about the full RG flow is encoded in the original CFT. I will disc
 uss ongoing work developing new methods for extracting this information to
  study strongly-coupled IR dynamics. This method uses a UV basis of confor
 mal Casimir eigenstates to construct the Hamiltonian\, which is then trunc
 ated at some maximum Casimir eigenvalue and diagonalized to approximate th
 e low energy spectrum of the IR theory. After presenting a general framewo
 rk which can be applied to CFTs in any number of dimensions\, I will then 
 focus on the specific example of scalar field theory\, which can be used t
 o study strongly-coupled systems like the 2D and 3D Ising models. Finally\
 , I will discuss the possible application of this framework to gauge theor
 ies\, including QCD.
LOCATION:BSP 727 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BSP%20727
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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