Jonathan Heckman | Top Down Approach to Quantum Fields
10/28/2020 Colloquium
Speaker: Jonathan Heckman (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Top Down Approach to Quantum Fields
Abstract: Quantum Field theory (QFT) is the common language of particle physicists, cosmologists, and condensed matter physicists. Even so, many fundamental aspects of QFT remain poorly understood. I discuss some of the recent progress made in understanding QFT using the geometry of extra dimensions predicted by string theory, highlighting in particular the special role of seemingly "exotic" higher-dimensional supersymmetric QFTs with no length scales known as six-dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs). We have recently classified all examples of such 6D SCFTs, and are now using this to extra observables from strongly correlated systems in theories with more than four spacetime dimensions, as well as in spacetimes with four or fewer spacetime dimensions. Along the way, I will also highlight the remarkable interplay between physical and mathematical structures in the study of such systems
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Speaker: Jonathan Heckman (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Top Down Approach to Quantum Fields
Abstract: Quantum Field theory (QFT) is the common language of particle physicists, cosmologists, and condensed matter physicists. Even so, many fundamental aspects of QFT remain poorly understood. I discuss some of the recent progress made in understanding QFT using the geometry of extra dimensions predicted by string theory, highlighting in particular the special role of seemingly "exotic" higher-dimensional supersymmetric QFTs with no length scales known as six-dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs). We have recently classified all examples of such 6D SCFTs, and are now using this to extra observables from strongly correlated systems in theories with more than four spacetime dimensions, as well as in spacetimes with four or fewer spacetime dimensions. Along the way, I will also highlight the remarkable interplay between physical and mathematical structures in the study of such systems
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