Video Lectures

 I will discuss a large-N bosonic quantum mechanical sigma-model with a spherical target space subject to disordered interactions, more colloquially known as the p-spin spherical model. Replica symmetry is broken at low temperatures and for...

Based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01373. We study a model for explaining the apparent deviation of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, (g-2), from the Standard Model expectation. There are no new scalars and hence no new hierarchy puzzles beyond...

 Quantum many-body systems are very hard to simulate, since computational resources (time and memory) typically grow exponentially with the system size. However, quantum computers or analog quantum simulators may perform that task in a much more...

This is joint work with Clément Dupont. Motivated by double-copy  (Kawai-Lewellen-Tye) formulae relating open and closed superstring amplitudes at tree-level, I will explain a general double-copy formula for period integrals on algebraic varieties...

Powerful extragalactic radio sources hosted in galaxies come in all shapes, sizes, powers, and presumably ages.  What might a young or nascent powerful radio source look like?  The class of compact powerful extragalactic radio sources are defined to...

A new class of phase transitions has been recently studied in quantum many-body systems that are subject to measurements but not otherwise open to any external decoherence.  This phase transition arises from a competition between scrambling dynamics...

Lightray operators have played an important role in numerous recent developments in conformal field theory. These operators, and their associated operator product expansion (OPE), also play a central role in collider experiments, where they govern...

We revisit the computation of string correlation functions in AdS3 with pure NS-NS flux from a worldsheet point of view. These correlators contain all the perturbative information about the spacetime CFT and the existence of winding strings in AdS3...

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...

We will discuss emergent global symmetries, anomalies, and dualities in various lattice models and their continuum field theories. These include the ordinary XY model and some exotic models related to fractons. We will find that many properties that...