Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar
"Recent Progress in Non-perturbative methods for QFTs"
Presented by Lorenzo Vitale, Boston University
Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)
Hosted by: Alexei Tsvelik
Quantum field theories (QFT) are notoriously hard to solve in the strongly coupled regime, and few tools are available in space dimension larger than one. In this talk I discuss recent progress and ideas in characterizing certain QFTs in dimension d >= 1, based on the Hamiltonian Truncation and S-matrix bootstrap techniques. Some of the applications I will mention are Landau-Ginzburg theories and the Chern-Simons-matter theories.