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# Video Library

Since 2002 Perimeter Institute has been recording seminars, conference talks, and public outreach events using video cameras installed in our lecture theatres.  Perimeter now has 7 formal presentation spaces for its many scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and educational outreach activities, all with advanced audio-visual technical capabilities.  Recordings of events in these areas are all available On-Demand from this Video Library and on Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA)PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics. This resource has been partially modelled after Cornell University's arXiv.org.

## Observables and Change in Totally Constrained Systems

Jeudi sep 18, 2014
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We isolate an important physical distinction between gauge symmetries which exist at the level of histories and states, and those which exist at the level of histories and not states. This distinction is characterised explicitly using a generalized Hamilton-Jacobi formalism within which a non-standard prescription for the observables of classical totally constrained systems is developed. These ideas motivate a relational quantization' procedure which is different from the standard Dirac quanization'.

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## Evolution of quantum field, particle content, and classicality in the three stage universe

Jeudi sep 18, 2014
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I will discuss the evolution of a quantum scalar field in a toy universe which has three stages of evolution, viz., (i) an early (inflationary) de Sitter phase (ii) radiation-dominated phase and (iii) late-time (cosmological constant dominated) de Sitter phase. Using the Schr\"odinger picture, the scalar field equations are solved separately for the three stages and matched at the transition points. The boundary conditions are chosen so that field modes in the early de Sitter phase evolve from the Bunch-Davies vacuum state.

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## 14/15 PSI Quantum Theory-9

Jeudi sep 18, 2014
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## 14/15 PSI - Relativity- Lecture 9

Jeudi sep 18, 2014
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## A magic bullet for numerous quantum-informational tasks

Mercredi sep 17, 2014
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A class of d-level quantum states called "magic states", whose initial purpose was to enable universal fault-tolerant computation within error-correcting codes, has a surprisingly broad range of applications. We begin by describing their structure with respect to the Clifford hierarchy, and in terms of convex geometry before proceeding to their applications. They appear to have some relevance to the search for SIC-POVMs in certain prime dimensions. A version of the CHSH non-local game, using a d-ary alphabet and Pauli measurements, has an optimal quantum strategy using magic states.

## Boltzmann's Dog and Darwin's Finch: The statistical thermodynamics of self-replication and evolution

Mercredi sep 17, 2014
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Living things operate according to well-known physical laws, yet it is challenging to discern specific, non-trivial consequences of these constraints for how an organism that is a product of evolution must behave. Part of the difficulty here is that life lives very far from thermal equilibrium, where many of our traditional theoretical tools fail us. However, recent developments in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics may help light a way forward.

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## 14/15 PSI Quantum Theory-8

Mercredi sep 17, 2014
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## Irreversibility, Entropy Production, and and Self-organization far from Equilibrium

Mercredi sep 17, 2014
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In the last few decades, substantial advances have been made in our ability to make general statements about the thermodynamics of systems driven far from thermal equilibrium. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of some the most basic results in this area and explain their connection to classic results in linear response theory. I will then describe how to formally construct the generalization of free energy for macrostates in a far-from-equilibrium system and discuss possible connections to self-organization phenomena in both biological and other contexts.

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## 14/15 PSI - Relativity- Lecture 8

Mercredi sep 17, 2014
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## Self-assembling tensor networks and holography in disordered spin chains

Mardi sep 16, 2014
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We show that the numerical strong disorder renormalization group algorithm (SDRG) of Hikihara et.\ al.\ [{Phys. Rev. B} {\bf 60}, 12116 (1999)] for the one-dimensional disordered Heisenberg model naturally describes a tree tensor network (TTN) with an irregular structure defined by the strength of the couplings. Employing the holographic interpretation of the TTN in Hilbert space, we compute expectation values, correlation functions and the entanglement entropy using the geometrical properties of the TTN.

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## Next Public Lecture

### Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study

Jeudi nov 06, 2014

## RECENT PUBLIC LECTURE

### Quantum Entanglement and Superconductivity

Speaker: Subir Sachdev