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PHY391 Proseminar Theoretische Physik

General theme: exploring the connections between high-energy and condensed matter physics.

The talks present a selection of topics in theoretical physics which are relevant to both high-energy/particle physics and condensed matter physics at the same time. Theories with impact on such disconnected fields are of particular importance and span invisible bridges between the high- and low-energy frontiers of physics, revealing the beauty behind truly fundamental descriptions of nature.

 

General Information

Timetable

Monday 11:00 - 12:00 as a zoom meeting (http://www.zoom.us).

Assignments of the Themes: Monday 17.2.2020.

The various themes will be presented and possibly assigned during the first lecture. Students unable to attend the lecture should contact T. Neupert as soon as possible.

Due to the no-classroom policy, we ask each presenter to provide a video recording of their talk as a video file. It can be recorded with https://studio.opencast.org/, for instance as a video and a screen recording, on which slides will be presented. The podcasts last 25-30 minutes and should be in English. Please send the file (for instance as a dropbox link) at the latest on the Sunday evening before your assigned date to your supervising TA. You are not required to prepare a handout anymore. The link to the video will be in the table below.

We will then convene in a zoom meeting at 11 am each Monday to discuss the subject. It is expected that you have watched the podcasts by that time. Please also think about one question each for at least one of the talks of that day. The zoom meeting will then be used to ask these questions to the presenting students.  Attending at least 80% of the zoom meetings along with the questions is, in addition to giving your talk (podcast), the prerequisite for passing the module.

Necessary conditions for passing the module PHY391

  • Make one presentation in the form of a 30 min video podcast
  • Take part in at least 80% of the presentations by other students.

Confirmed presentations

Date Topic Supervisor Student
09.03.2020 Dirac equation and Dirac fermions (PDF, 1 MB) Stepan

Unger Hanna

Weyl fermions (cancelled) Stepan

Zwahlen Nando

23.03.2020 The chiral anomaly Stepan

Lee Suinne

Supersymmetry Stepan

Redard-Jacot Livio

30.03.2020 Anderson-Higgs mechanism Arkadiy

Baudis Nathan

Majorana fermions Stepan

Maraffio Andrej

Portrait: Kitaev Arkadiy

Michael Sarina

06.04.2020 Portrait: Wen Aleksandra

Mirosavljevic Mirko

Portrait: Simons Aleksandra

Weber Janic

20.04.2020 Toric code Aleksandra

Rothenbühler Pascal

Quantum error correction Bart

Jucker Stefanie

27.04.2020 Skyrmions (cancelled) Bart

Brugger Noah

Bosonization (cancelled) Bart

Nägeli Severin

Wess-Zumino-Witten model Bart

Jäger Fabian

Axiomatic topological field theory Aleksandra

Binz Christopher

04.05.2020 Connection between gravity and thermal responses Stepan

Oueslati Selim

AdS-CFT correspondence Aleksandra

Lüscher Mila

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model Aleksandra

AlMinawi Mohammad

11.05.2020 Portrait: Witten Bart

Herbosa Labiano Nelson

Portrait: Wilson Bart

Meier Thomas

Entanglement entropy as a tool to study quantum systems

Bart

Giobbi Luca

18.05.2020 Universality in graphene (cancelled) Arkadiy

Fenner Bernhard

Symmetry classifications of matter Arkadiy

Dei Tos Irene

Axion electrodynamics

Aleksandra Steiner Marc
25.05.2020 Green’s function techniques Arkadiy

Adrover Maximinio

Feynman diagrams Arkadiy

Drewanowski Annabella

Quantum Monte Carlo Bart & Arkadiy Hickel Sven

 

Open topics

  1. Lattice gauge theory
  2. Noncommutative geometry and the fractional quantum Hall effect
  3. Chern-Simons Theory
  4. Sine-Gordon model
  5. Lattice regularization, Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem, Fermion doubling
  6. Renormalization group