Topology, quantum criticality, and duality

Date
Mon October 8th 2018, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Event Sponsor
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location
Varian Physics - Room 355
Topology, quantum criticality, and duality

Professor Senthil Todadri of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) Monday Colloquium.

He will describe recent progress in our understanding of unusual quantum critical phenomena that lie outside the standard Landau paradigm. Crucial related input into these quantum critical points has come from the study of gapped topological phases of matter and from the understanding of dualities of quantum field theories. Professor Todadri will highlight these connections and describe several new results on quantum critical points in 3+1-dimensional systems. Based on this understanding he will describe an interesting possible 3+1-D field theory duality.

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