The Landau levels of a two-dimensional electron system support a plethora of fascinating many-body ground states and collective low-energy excitations, thanks to enhanced electron-electron interactions and the characteristics of the LL wave functions. The n=1 LL is particularly fascinating as it hosts even-denominator fractional quantum Hall…
"Superconductors come in many varieties: we typically classify them based on the symmetry of their superconducting gap, such as s, p, or d-wave. This classification, however, does not tell the entire story because the superconducting gap can also have topological structure. One route to topological superconductivity is to…
Some aspects of the black hole spectrum, coming from spacetime wormhole contributions, can be modeled by a random matrix ensemble. It is important to understand the appropriate ensemble for theories with extended supersymmetry, since for example this is the case for systems with known gravity duals coming from string…
MAGIS-100 is a macroscopic ‘Quantum-Sensor’, based on a 100-meter light-pulse atom interferometer, being built at Fermilab by an international collaboration, in search of the “dark” sector of the universe (“dark” matter and energy) and “early-universe” gravitational wave background. The experiment can potentially search for new forces and test …
The technique of “Stochastic Cooling” of phase space of a particle beam, using microwave techniques in the GHz frequency range, has been employed historically in particle colliders, leading to ground-breaking discoveries. ‘Cooling’ increases the probability of interactions in colliding beams, thus enhancing the likelihood of observing rare…
In this talk, I will present a new systematic approach of constructing solvable lattice Hamiltonians for a large class of 2+1D topological orders, which are enriched by background Electromagnetic U(1) symmetry and feature non-trivial fractional Hall conductivity. This approach goes beyond the conventional fixed-point principle by considering…
Perhaps the most important problem in physics or quantum chemistry is to determine properties of the ground state of an interacting system of fermions. As a quantum mechanical problem, there may be no efficient classical witness to the ground state energy, or even to an approximation of that energy. A…
I will explain recent work with S. Mizera in which we give explicit evaluations of one-loop open string amplitudes at finite alpha’. Our method involves various deformations of the contour integral over the modular parameter. We directly verify that the one-loop string amplitude satisfies unitarity constraints. I…
Abstract: Measurements of rare Standard Model (SM) processes are now possible thanks to the large trove of collision data delivered by the LHC during its second data taking run. Of particular interest are heavy states including top quarks plus an additional heavy boson (ttH, ttW, and ttZ) and the simultaneous production of four top quarks…
In this talk I will focus on light dark matter particles, with a mass between 1 MeV and a few GeV. These particles can annihilate or decay into electron-positron pairs which can upscatter the low-energy fields in our Galaxy and produce X-ray emission. By using the X-ray data from XMM-Newton, Integral, Suzaku and NuStar, we derive strong…
While Laughlin identified the fractional quantum Hall state as a consequence of an “incompressible quantum fluid”, well-described by his model wavefunction which exhibits “flux attachment”, no fundamental explanation of the energetics driving “flux attachment” has emerged. A new picture reveals that a…
The CνB is a cosmological relic analogous to the CMB, and contains information about the universe before it was one-second-old. Reflection of relic neutrinos from the surface of the Earth creates a significant local neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry in a shell seven meters thick around the Earth's surface. This asymmetry…
Eukaryotic cells physically manipulate their environments; swimming through liquids, crawling across surfaces, and actively ingesting objects large and small. Inside these cells lies a seething mass of cytoplasm through which thousands of different objects are pushed and pulled to specific cellular locations. These and other dynamic processes…
Supersymmetric black holes in Anti de-Sitter space have recently been shown to have a large number of exactly degenerate microstates. In the first part of the talk, we will review how AdS5 black hole microstates may be reliably counted in the dual N=4 SYM theory using the superconformal index, a partition function preserving 1/16-supersymmetry…
The search for low-dimensional topological superconductivity is fueled by the promise of new and exotic physics, such as chiral superconductivity and non-Abelian anyons. However, the need to break time-reversal symmetry, usually by applying a relatively large external magnetic field, has hindered the realization of these novel phases of matter…
A long standing problem in lattice QCD is to construct an explicit instanton density operator on the lattice. We introduce such a construction, after suitably refining the lattice Yang-Mills action, so that it captures the continuum Yang-Mills theory better than the traditional lattice Yang-Mills action does. This refinement needed follows…
I give new results for “gravastars'', which are horizonless compact objects that closely mimic mathematical black holes in their exterior geometry, but for which g_{00} is always positive. They result from solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations for relativistic stellar structure, which require…
Regulation of information flow in the brain is critical for many forms of behavior.
In the first part of my talk, I will focus on mechanisms that regulate interactions between brain regions and describe how state-dependent frontal cortex dynamics can gate information flow from the sensory cortex during decision-making in mice.
…I will describe the correlators of fermion bilinears in the n-flavor massless Schwinger model. These are exactly calculable generalized free theories. For n > 1, there is a massive particle and a conformal sector. I have argued that in the n = 2 theory, very special mass terms can be added to introduce interactions…
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