The Conformal Bootstrap Approach to Criticality in 3 and 2+1 Dimensions

Speaker: Slava Rychkov, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette

When: November 3, 2020 (Tue), 03:30PM to 04:45PM (add to my calendar)
Location: SCI
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This event is part of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.

The standard view of critical phenomena, such as the liquid-gas critical point or the Curie temperature of a ferromagnet, is through the Renormalization Group. I will describe an alternative – view it as a self- consistent “soup” of interacting fluctuations, governed by tight equations of Conformal Field Theory. This approach is both rigorous and calculable, with unprecedented precision for the critical exponents of the 3D Ising and other models.

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