Archive of IAS Friday High Energy Theory Seminars

In my talk I will explicitly describe what topological termspreserving time-reversal symmetry one can introduce in 3+1d Yang-Mills theory. Classification of such terms corresponds to classification of SPTs via cobordisms proposed by Kapustin and...

Recent lattice results on $\theta$ at high temperatures call into question the standard semiclassical analysis of $\theta$-dependence at high temperatures. We examine arguments that there are large uncertainties in these computations, studying both...

Global symmetries in two dimensions are implemented by topological defect lines (TDLs). For continuous global symmetries, the TDLs are nothing but the Noether charges. However, there are TDLs that are not associated to any global symmetry, and can...

Noether's theorem is textbook material in quantum field theory, but among experts it has been known for a while that there are quantum field theories with continuous global symmetries which possess no conserved current. In this talk I will give a...

After a brief review (suitable for physicists) of computational genomics and complex traits, I describe recent progress in this area.Using methods from Compressed Sensing (L1-penalized regression; Donoho-Tanner phase transition with noise) and the...

We study the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) in chaotic conformal field theories (CFTs) of arbitrary dimensions. Assuming local ETH, we compute the reduced density matrix of a ball-shaped subsystem of finite size in the infinite volume...

Goldstone modes arising from spontaneously broken symmetries can be added to a hydrodynamic description of charge transport to model quantum critical effects in metals from a symmetry point of view. I will discuss the setup and the effects of weak...

I will give an overview of the integrability-based approach to study correlation functions in planar N=4 SYM. The basic strategy is to "divide and conquer": We decompose the correlators of single-trace operators into fundamental objects called...

A complete and universal equivalence between soft theorems inquantum field theories and asymptotic symmetries in flat spacetimes has recently emerged. We review these developments and show that the equivalence also extends to theories with higher...