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13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 15

Anushya Chandran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Roger Melko University of Waterloo

Xiao-Gang Wen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics

November 29, 2013

PIRSA:13110045
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 15

Francois David CEA Saclay

November 29, 2013

PIRSA:13110026
General Relativity for Cosmology - Lecture 22

Achim Kempf University of Waterloo

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110007
Divergences in Spinfoam Quantum Gravity

Aldo Riello Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110063

Quantum Gravity
Collisions in AdS and the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions

Wilke van der Schee European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110089

Strong Gravity
13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 14

Anushya Chandran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Roger Melko University of Waterloo

Xiao-Gang Wen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110044
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 14

Francois David CEA Saclay

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110025
The Secret to Engagement: Lessons from Video

Derek Muller

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110095
Homological Product Codes

Sergey Bravyi IBM (United States)

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110091

Quantum Information
Insightful supersymmetry

Erich Poppitz University of Toronto

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110061

Particle Physics
13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 13

Anushya Chandran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Roger Melko University of Waterloo

Xiao-Gang Wen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110043
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 13

Francois David CEA Saclay

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110024

13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 15

Anushya Chandran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Roger Melko University of Waterloo

Xiao-Gang Wen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics

November 29, 2013

PIRSA:13110045
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 15

Francois David CEA Saclay

November 29, 2013

PIRSA:13110026
General Relativity for Cosmology - Lecture 22

Achim Kempf University of Waterloo

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110007
Divergences in Spinfoam Quantum Gravity

Aldo Riello Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110063

Quantum Gravity

The most relevant evidences in favour of the Lorentzian EPRL-FK spinfoam model come from its capibility of reproducing the expected semiclassical limit in the large spin regime. The main examples of this are the large spin limit of the vertex amplitude, later extended to arbitrary triangulations, and that of the spinfoam graviton propagator, which was calculated on the simplest possible two complex. These results are very promising. Nonetheless, their relevance may be endangered by the effects associated to radiative corrections. In this seminar, I will focus on the role played by the simplest diverging graph, the so called 'melon graph', which is known to play a fundamental role in tensorial group field theories. In particular, I will discuss its most divergent part and its geometrical interpretation. I will finally comment on the result, with particular attention to its physical consequences, especially in relation with the semiclassical limit of the spinfoam graviton propagator.
Collisions in AdS and the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions

Wilke van der Schee European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110089

Strong Gravity

The motivation of this seminar is to understand the thermalisation of heavy ion collisions using AdS/CFT. These collisions can be modelled as colliding planar gravitational shock waves. This gives rise to rich and interesting dynamics; wide shocks come to a full stop and expand hydrodynamically, as was previously found by Chesler and Yaffe. High energy collisions (corresponding to thin shocks) pass through each other, after which a plasma forms in the middle, within a proper time 1/T, with T the local temperature at that time. After this I will discuss recent results where we studied the influence of microscopic structure in the longitudinal direction of the shock waves, and thereby found a coherent regime. This has implications for both fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions, and for recent proton-lead collisions at at LHC. The final part will cover a radially expanding calculation, where some simplifications allowed us to solve the model all the way till the final particle spectra, with an interesting comparison with experimental data.
13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 14

Anushya Chandran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Roger Melko University of Waterloo

Xiao-Gang Wen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110044
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 14

Francois David CEA Saclay

November 28, 2013

PIRSA:13110025
The Secret to Engagement: Lessons from Video

Derek Muller

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110095

Derek Muller from YouTube's Veritasium will present a webcast on Wednesday November 27, 2013 at 7pm EST from the Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas at Perimeter Institute.Derek will discuss the question: Do videos really improve student learning? Derek’s PhD in physics education research suggests the answer may be no! In this one hour talk, he will share insights from his research as well as the incredible physics phenomena he has captured for his YouTube channel.Derek Muller created the popular YouTube channel Veritasium in January 2011. With almost 1 million subscribers, Derek’s 140 videos have received over 45 million views.
Homological Product Codes

Sergey Bravyi IBM (United States)

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110091

Quantum Information

Quantum codes with low-weight stabilizers known as LDPC codes have been actively studied recently due to their potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, all families of quantum LDPC codes known to this date suffer from a poor distance scaling limited by the square-root of the code length. This is in a sharp contrast with the classical case where good families of LDPC codes are known that combine constant encoding rate and linear distance. Here we propose the first family of good quantum codes with low-weight stabilizers. The new codes have a constant encoding rate, linear distance, and stabilizers acting on at most square root of n qubits, where n is the code length. For comparison, all previously known families of good quantum codes have stabilizers of linear weight. Our proof combines two techniques: randomized constructions of good quantum codes and the homological product operation from algebraic topology. We conjecture that similar methods can produce good stabilizer codes with stabilizer weight n^a for any a>0. Finally, we apply the homological product to construct new small codes with low-weight stabilizers. This is a joint work with Matthew Hastings.
Insightful supersymmetry

Erich Poppitz University of Toronto

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110061

Particle Physics

It has recently been realized that some studies of supersymmetric gauge theories, when properly interpreted, lead to insights whose importance transcends supersymmetry. I will illustrate the insightful nature of supersymmetry by two examples having to do with the microscopic description of the thermal deconfinement transition, in non-supersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory and in QCD with adjoint fermions. A host of strange ``topological" molecules will be seen to be the major players in the confinement-deconfinement dynamics. Interesting connections between topology, ``condensed-matter" gases of electric and magnetic charges, and attempts to interpret the divergent perturbation series will emerge. Much of the presentation will be aimed at non-experts.
13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 13

Anushya Chandran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Roger Melko University of Waterloo

Xiao-Gang Wen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110043
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 13

Francois David CEA Saclay

November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110024

Title	Date	Collection	Type	Info
13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 15	2013‑11‑29	13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter	Course	View details
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 15	2013‑11‑29	13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II	Course	View details
General Relativity for Cosmology - Lecture 22	2013‑11‑28	General Relativity for Cosmology - 2013	Course	View details
Divergences in Spinfoam Quantum Gravity	2013‑11‑28	Quantum Gravity	Scientific Series	View details
Collisions in AdS and the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions	2013‑11‑28	Strong Gravity	Scientific Series	View details
13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 14	2013‑11‑28	13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter	Course	View details
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 14	2013‑11‑28	13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II	Course	View details
The Secret to Engagement: Lessons from Video	2013‑11‑27	Public Lecture Series	Other	View details
Homological Product Codes	2013‑11‑27	Perimeter Institute Quantum Discussions	Scientific Series	View details
Insightful supersymmetry	2013‑11‑27	Colloquium	Scientific Series	View details
13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter - Lecture 13	2013‑11‑27	13/14 PSI - Condensed Matter	Course	View details
13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 13	2013‑11‑27	13/14 PSI - Quantum Field Theory II	Course	View details

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