Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them
Title: Bubble Nucleation from Boson Star Collapse Speaker: Kateryna Radchenko Serdula (IFT) will present "Bubble Nucleation from Boson Star Collapse", 2511.21826 Venue&Time: Gray Room 2 / 12:00 Abstract: We present a new classical mechanism for nucleation of bubbles of true vacuum. The mechanism arises when dense boson stars form in the false vacuum. As the […]
Title: Revisiting Critical Higgs Inflation: CMB Observables, Electroweak Couplings, and Perturbative Unitarity Speaker: Sarah R. Geller (Yale U.) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: An intriguing and economical possibility to explain many cosmological observations is Higgs inflation, in which inflation is driven by the Standard Model Higgs with a non-minimal coupling to gravity. I […]
Every Thursday at 12:00 in the Red Room.
Mikel Martin (IFT) will present "Large scale perturbations in the open universe", by D. H. Lyth, & A. Woszczyna, Venue&Time: Blue Room / 17:00 Abstract: When considering perturbations in an open (Omega<1) universe, cosmologists retain only sub-curvature modes (defined as eigenfunctions of the Laplacian whose eigenvalue is less than -1 in units of the curvature […]
Title: 'A hot take on electroweak skyrmions' Speaker: Luis Gil (Universidad de Granada). Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Skyrmions are stable and topologically non-trivial field configurations that behave like localized particles. They appear in the chiral effective theory for pions, where they correspond to the baryon states, and might also exist in the electroweak […]
Speaker: Pablo Viñas Martínez (IFT) Títle: 'Efficient Characterisation of Quantum Information Processors' Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:30 Abstract: "The precise characterisation and benchmarking of quantum information processors (QIPs) is essential for the development of quantum technologies. From the engineering of low-error physical components to the design of physically informed decoding strategies in quantum error […]
Speaker: José Garre Rubio Títle: 'Some Properties of Local One-Dimensional Hamiltonians' Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:30 Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss several properties of local Hamiltonians associated with the W state and matrix product states (MPS). I will begin by showing that the W state cannot be the unique ground state of […]
Speaker: Alberto Castellano (Chicago U.) Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30
Title: 'Differential observables for the Higgs-strahlung process to all orders in EFT.' Speaker: Sourav Bera from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: We develop methods to obtain the fully differential cross-section for the f f \to Z(ll) h process to any desired order in effective field theory (EFT). To […]