String Seminars
This series consists of talks in the area of Superstring Theory.
Seminar Series Events/Videos
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2009Speaker(s):
Non-relativistic versions of the AdS/CFT conjecture have recently been investigated in some detail. These have primarily been in the context of the Schrodinger symmetry group. Here we talk of a study based on a different non-relativistic conformal symmetry: one obtained by a parametric contraction of the relativistic conformal group. The resulting Galilean conformal symmetry has the same number of generators as the relativistic symmetry group and thus is different from the Schrodinger group (which has fewer).
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Thursday Nov 12, 2009Speaker(s):
It has been conjectured that higher-dimensional rotating black holes become unstable at a sufficiently large value of the rotation, and that new black holes with pinched horizons appear at the threshold of the instability. We search numerically, and find, the stationary axisymmetric perturbations of Myers-Perry black holes with a single spin that mark the onset of the instability and the appearance of the new black hole phases. We also find new ultraspinning Gregory-Laflamme instabilities of rotating black strings and branes.
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Wednesday Nov 11, 2009Speaker(s):
I will survey some open problems posed by experiments on condensed matter systems, such as the high temperature superconductors. I will argue that their solutions require analyses of strong-coupling regimes which cannot be addressed by conventional field-theoretic means. I will describe insights drawn from the AdS/CFT correspondence, and discuss the connections to theories with simple gravity duals.
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Tuesday Nov 03, 2009Speaker(s):
Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are one of the most difficult problems for theoretical physicists: they probe non-abelian dynamics deep in the non-perturbative (strong coupling) regime in a many-body system, are highly dynamical (strong gradients), exhibit collective behavior, and involve phase transitions. Fluid dynamics with input from holography is surprisingly good at describing some aspects of experimental data in heavy-ion collisions.
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2009Speaker(s):
We utilize the tools of the gauge/gravity correspondence in order to investigate electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). For quite some time now, a walking technicolor sector has been viewed by phenomenologists as a very promising alternative to the Higgs boson. Unfortunately however, no precise computations have been possible since in the technicolor gauge theory EWSB is due to strong-coupling dynamics.
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Tuesday Oct 20, 2009Speaker(s):
Recently there has been great interest in calculating transport coefficients for field theories at large coupling, using AdS/CFT. In this talk I will discuss recent work showing how to use the membrane paradigm to easily compute the shear viscosity and conductivity in arbitrary gravity theories. In a certain sense these can be thought of as effective couplings at the black hole horizon dual to the field theory plasma. An explicit Wald-like formula for these couplings is given for a large class of generalized gravity theories.
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2009Speaker(s):
TBA
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Friday Oct 09, 2009
Universal scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy in conformal field theories uncovered by a holographic calculation.
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Thursday Oct 08, 2009
Entanglement entropy and entanglement entropy spectrum in topological insulators and related systems.
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Wednesday Oct 07, 2009
Complete classification of topological insulators (including, e.g., the quantum Hall effect and the quantum spin Hall systems), and superconductors (including, e.g., chiral p-wave SC and the B-phase of 3He). An interacting bosonic model that realizes a topological superconducting phase in three spatial dimensions.
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