Journal clubs

Speaker: Cristian Tabares Venue & Time: 11:30 / Gray Room 3 Abstract: Current experimental quantum devices do not yet meet the requirements for building fault-tolerant quantum computers, but they can still be used to address many-body problems as analogue quantum simulators. Furthermore, recent experimental advances are enabling these simulators to operate in a programmable manner , […]

Speaker: Sergio Rodríguez Benítez (IFT) Venue & Time: Grey Room 3 / 15:00 Abstract: We show that, contrary to common expectations, the observed charged leptons can have a substantial mixing with new heavier fermions, at the level of 20%. This can happen, in the language of effective theories, when the effect of mixing with heavier […]

Speaker: Andriana Makridou (IFT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: Are duality transformations symmetries of string theory? For AdS space-time the answer is no for generic asymptotic values of the moduli, since the duality symmetry is broken explicitly in the dual conformal field theory. In contrast, in string theory in flat space-time, monodromy […]

Speaker: Eric Madge, IFT Venue&Time: 12:00 / Grey room 3 Abstract: We present a new method to estimate terminal bubble velocities during first-order phase transitions in a plasma in local equilibrium. The method relies on calculating the extrema of a modified potential function for the scalar field undergoing the transition. The shape of this function, […]