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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.
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Monday Jun 17, 2013Speaker(s):
We introduce two relative entropy quantities called the min- and max-relative
entropies and discuss their properties and operational meanings.
These relative entropies act as parent quantities for tasks such as data compression, information
transmission and entanglement manipulation in one-shot information theory. Moreover, they lead us to define entanglement monotones which have interesting operational interpretations.Collection/Series:Scientific Areas:
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Monday Jun 17, 2013Speaker(s):
In the past few years, optical cooling and manipulating of macroscopic objects, such as micro-mirrors and cantilevers has developed into an active field of research. In mechanical systems, the oscillator is attached to its suspension, a thermal contact that limits the motion isolation. On the other hand, when these small objects are levitated using the radiation pressure force of lasers, the excellent thermal isolation even at room temperatures helps produce very sensitive force detectors, and eventually quantum transducers for quantum computation purposes.
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Thursday Jun 13, 2013Speaker(s):
Recently powerful techniques have emerged for performing multi-loop computations of scattering amplitudes in quantum gravity and supergravity. These techniques include generalized unitarity and the double-copy property, related to color-kinematics duality in gauge theory. Using these techniques, the ultraviolet divergence structure of N=8 supergravity, and more recently pure N=4 supergravity, have been assessed, not only in four space-time dimensions but also in higher dimensions.
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Thursday Jun 13, 2013Speaker(s):
I describe recent work with with Stefan Hollands that establishes a new criterion for the dynamical stability of black holes in $D \geq 4$ spacetime dimensions in general relativity with respect to axisymmetric perturbations: Dynamic stability is equivalent to the positivity of the canonical energy, $\mathcal E$, on a subspace of linearized solutions that have vanishing linearized ADM mass, momentum, and angular momentum at infinity and satisfy certain gauge conditions at the horizon. We further show that $\mathcal E$ is related to the second order variations of mass, angular momentum, an
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Thursday Jun 13, 2013Speaker(s):
When a large number of quantum mechanical particles are put together and allowed to interact, various condensed matter phases emerge with macroscopic quantum properties. While conventional quantum phases like superfluids or quantum magnets can be understood as a simple collection of
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Wednesday Jun 12, 2013Speaker(s):
Shor's algorithm can be a meaningful test for experimental quantum processing systems, when suitably realized. I present results from a recent implemenation of quantum factoring using trapped ion qubits, demonstrating feed-forward control, use of quantum memory during computation, and cascaded three-qubit gates. Such capabilities are necessary ingredients for a future large-scale,
fault-tolerant quantum computing system.Collection/Series:Scientific Areas:
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Wednesday Jun 12, 2013Speaker(s):
Hexagon functions are a class of iterated integrals, depending on three variables (dual conformal cross ratios) which have the correct branch cut structure and other properties to describe the scattering of six gluons in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We classify all hexagon
functions through transcendental weight five, using the coproduct for their Hopf algebra iteratively, which amounts to a set of first-order differential equations. As an example, the three-loop remainder function is a particular weight-six hexagon function, whose symbol was determined
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2013Speaker(s):
I will describe recent results obtained for N=4 superconformal field
theories in four dimensions by means of the conformal bootstrap.
This talk will be related to the content of arXiv:1304.1803, as well as
some additional work in progress.Collection/Series:Scientific Areas:
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2013Speaker(s):
The direct detection of gravitational waves promises to open up a new spectrum that is otherwise mostly closed to electromagnetically based astronomical observations. Detecting gravitational waves from binary black holes and neutron stars, as well as estimating their parameters, requires a sufficiently accurate prediction for the expected waveform signal.
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2013Speaker(s):
We show explicitly how the exact renormalization group
equation of interacting vector models in the large N limit can be
mapped into certain higher-spin equations of motion. The equations of
motion are generalized to incorporate a multiparticle extension of the
higher-spin algebra, which reflects the "multitrace" nature of the
interactions in the dual field theory from the holographic point of view.Collection/Series:Scientific Areas:
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