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.

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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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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Scaling geometries and DC conductivities

Monday Aug 22, 2016
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Non-relativistic geometries that violate hyperscaling have been used as holographic laboratories for probing strongly coupled phases with anomalous scalings. In this talk I will discuss holographic computations of DC conductivities in gravitational systems that exhibit such scalings, and allow for momentum dissipation. I will also comment on the cases in which one obtains a linear temperature dependence for the resistivity.

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Hierarchical growth of entangled states

Monday Aug 22, 2016
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This talk, based on work with Brian Swingle, will describe the s-sourcery program.
Its goal is to extend the lessons of the renormalization group to quantum many body states.

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