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.

Jogging Through Holographic Massive Gravity

Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
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We present some recent developments in the framework of holographic (Lorentz violating) massive gravity.
We rigorously define the most generic isotropic setup in 3+1 dimensions and we study in detail its phenomenology.
We describe the electric and the viscoelastic responses of the system and we comment on the fate of the KSS viscosity bound
in absence of translational symmetry. We conclude with some discussion hints and comments for the future.

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First sound of zero temperature holographic superfluids

Wednesday Aug 24, 2016

Within the context of AdS/CFT, the gravity dual of an s-wave superfluid is given by scalar QED on an asymptotically AdS spacetime. While this conclusion is vastly based on numerical arguments, I will provide an analytical proof that this is indeed the case. In particular, I will present a technique which allows to explicitely compute the low-energy effective action for the boundary theory starting from the bulk system. This will be done for an arbitrary number of dimensions and an arbitrary potential.

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Hydrodynamic theory of fluctuating stripes

Wednesday Aug 24, 2016

I will present a hydrodynamic description of matter in a charge density wave (or "smectic") phase. As in superfluids, the spontaneous breaking of a continuous symmetry -- here translations in one direction -- adds a Goldstone phase to the usual long lived hydrodynamic variables. This phase propagates as a highly anisotropic "second sound" mode at low energies, affecting properties such as transport. Phase fluctuations, due to proliferating dislocations, give a finite life-time to certain collective modes, which can be experimentally probed e.g.

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TBA

Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
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Front End - Functions, "Functions", etc. - 2

Wednesday Aug 24, 2016

Particle-Vortex duality and Topological Quantum Matter

Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
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Universal Diffusion and the Butterfly Effect

Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
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In 2014 Hartnoll proposed that the diffusion constants of incoherent metals should be bounded as $D \geq \hbar v^2/ (k_B T)$, where v is a characteristic velocity. In this talk I will describe a large class of holographic theories that saturate such a bound, with $v$ being the velocity of the butterfly effect. Our results suggest a novel connection between transport at strong coupling and the field of quantum chaos.

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Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
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Viscous Electron Fluids: Higher-Than-Ballistic Conduction Negative Nonlocal Resistance and Vortices

Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
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Front End - Functions, "Functions", etc. - 1

Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
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