# 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.

## Is smell a quantum phenomenon ?

Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
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Our sense of smell is extraordinarily good at molecular recognition: we can identify tens of thousands of odorants unerringly over a wide concentration range. The mechanism by which this happens is still hotly debated. One view is that molecular shape governs smell, but this notion has turned out to have very little predictive power. Some years ago I revived a discredited theory that posits instead that the nose is a vibrational spectroscope, and proposed a possible underlying mechanism, inelastic electron tunneling.

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## PSI 17/18 - Condensed Matter - Lecture 13

Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
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## PSI 17/18 - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 13

Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
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## General Relativity for Cosmology - Lecture 21

Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
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## Higher-order quantum computations and causal structures

Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
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Conventional quantum processes are described by quantum circuits, that represent evolutions of states of systems from input to output. In this seminar we consider transformations of an input circuit to an output circuit, which then represent the transformation of quantum evolutions. At this level, all the processes complying to admissibility conditions have in principle a physical realization scheme.

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## New understandings of unconventional quantum critical points

Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
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Quantum critical points (QCP) beyond the Landau-Ginzburg paradigm are often called unconventional QCPs. There are in general two types of unconventional QCP: type I are QCPs between ordered phases that spontaneously break very different symmetries, and type II involve topological (or quasi-topological) phases on at least one side of the QCP. Recently significant progress has been made in understanding (2+1)-dimensional unconventional QCPs, using the recently developed (2+1)d dualities, i.e., seemingly different theories may actually be identical in the infrared limit.

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## Quantum Information Theory of the Gravitational Anomaly

Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
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In this talk I prove that the standard notion of entanglement is not defined for gravitationally anomalous two-dimensional theories because they do not admit a local tensor factorization of the Hilbert space into local Hilbert spaces. I make this precise by combining two observations:

First, a two-dimensional CFT admits a consistent quantization on a space with boundary only if it is not anomalous.

Second, a local tensor factorization always leads to a definition of consistent, unitary, energy-preserving boundary condition.

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## Cosmology and Signals of Strongly Interacting Dark Sectors

Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
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Standard Model particles account for a small fraction of the matter content of the universe. If the remaining dark matter (DM) was ever in thermal equilibrium with itself or with the Standard Model (SM) sector, there must exist interactions that allowed its number density to be depleted to its present value. An interesting possibility for achieving this arises in scenarios where the DM is composed of pions'' of a QCD-like dark sector.

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## Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing in the Dark Energy Survey

Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
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The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year, 5000 sq. deg. observing program using the Dark Energy Camera on the 4m Blanco telescope at CTIO. I will describe the cosmological analysis of large-scale structure in the Universe using 1321 sq. deg. of data taken in the first year of DES operations. The analysis combines unprecedented measurements of weak gravitational lensing and the clustering of galaxies over the redshift range 0.2 to 1.3 to derive the most precise such cosmological constraints to date.

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## PSI 17/18 - Condensed Matter - Lecture 12

Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
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