IAS HET Seminar |David Berenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara “Staggered Bosons, Kahler Dirac Bosons and Supersymmetry on the Lattice” | Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS) & Zoom

Date
Apr 15, 2024, 2:30 pm3:30 pm
Location
Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS) & Zoom

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Event Description

I will describe constructions of lattice field theories that assign a single bosonic variable to each site, rather a conjugate pair x,p. The information to realize a non-trivial dynamics is realized by non-trivial Poisson brackets between nearest neighbors. The construction is similar to staggered fermions in 1+1 dimensions.

I will show how this construction readily leads to critical field theories in various dimensions and realizes naturally certain non-invertible symmetries on the lattice fied theory. A more general version can be used on triangulations of manifolds, where the Poisson bracket utilizes the homology chain complex  of the triangulation. I will show that when coupled to  fermions this construction readiy gives rise to a supersymmetric Hamiltonian where the fermions are realized as Kahler-Dirac fermions.

https://theias.zoom.us/j/84116605050?pwd=VHV6VkRUM3hkM2dFSlo2QWJiUWtPdz09