IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

Khovanov showed, more than 20 years ago, that there is a deeper theory underlying the Jones polynomial. The``knot categorification problem” is to find a uniform description of this theory, for all gauge groups, which originates from physics. I found...

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have rich dynamics in heavy states. We describe the constraints due to spontaneously broken boost and dilatation symmetries in such states. The spontaneously broken boost symmetries require the existence of new low...

The question I will address is: How does the holographic principle apply to de Sitter space? 

This is a continuation of a series of talks I have given in recent years reporting on work with Jan Manschot, et. al.
There will be some repetition, and some updates and new results.   (See below for some relevant links.)
Manschot and I have...

The future interior of black holes in AdS/CFT can be described in terms of a quantum circuit. We investigate boundary quantities detecting properties of this quantum circuit. We discuss relations between operator size, quantum complexity, and the...

This is a continuation of a series of talks I have given in recent years reporting on work with Jan Manschot, et. al.
There will be some repetition, and some updates and new results.   (See below for some relevant links.)
Manschot and I have...

Abstract: This is a continuation of a series of talks I have given in recent years reporting on work with Jan Manschot, et. al.
There will be some repetition, and some updates and new results.   (See below for some relevant links.)
Manschot and I...

I will discuss ongoing work about a string theoretic perspective on the 2d Bethe/Gauge correspondence of Nekrasov-Shatashvili. In this work, we focus on gl(M|N) spin chains. We show that the two sides of the correspondence, the integrable spin chain...

We present spherically symmetric solutions to Einstein’s equations, which are equivalent to canonical Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom black holes on the exterior, but with singular (Planck-density) shells at their respective event and inner...

With gate error rates in multiple technologies now below the threshold required for fault-tolerant quantum computation, the major remaining obstacle to useful quantum computation is scaling, a challenge greatly amplified by the huge overhead imposed...