Slava Rychkov
IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette and ENS, Paris, France
Date
27 November
Host
Gian Michele Graf
Title
The Conformal Bootstrap Approach to Criticality in 3 and 2+1 Dimensions
Abstract
The standard view of critical phenomena, such as the liquid-gas critical point or the Curie temperature of a ferromagnet, is through the Renormalization Group. I will describe an alternative – view it as a self-consistent “soup” of interacting fluctuations, governed by tight equations of Conformal Field Theory. This approach is both rigorous and calculable, with unprecedented precision for the 3D Ising model critical exponents.
Slava Rychkov (left) with Gian Michele Graf (right)