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Speaker: Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos (ICN-UNAM)
Time: Thursday 3 November 2022, 2:30pm

Title: Toponomic Quantum Computation Abstract: Quantum computing is based on logical gates operating on the quantum state of a system of qbits. Being able to implement a gate in a noise-resilient way is fundamental to the robustness of… Read More

Title: AD GRAVITAS: An exploration of the Unruh effect in particle physics Abstract: The incorporation of classical general relativity into the framework of quantum field theory yielded a rather surprising result — thermodynamic particle production. In short, for… Read More

Title: A topologically massive double copy Abstract: While gravity and gauge theories appear to be unrelated theories, it is possible to obtain gravitational amplitudes as the “square” of gauge theory ones. This relation, dubbed the double copy, is… Read More

Title: Studies of the D0-matrix models at low temperatures  Abstract: I will describe the low energy limit of the D0-matrix models and their gravitational interpretations. I will show that in low energies it is possible to obtain a confined,… Read More

Title: Open EFTs and Decoherence of Primordial Fluctuations Abstract: Inflationary models famously provide a quantum origin for the primordial fluctuations that are observed in structure formation and the cosmic microwave background, and efforts are being made to see… Read More

Title: Aspects of Dark Matter Effective Field Theories Abstract: Dark matter direct detection is an ideal setting for effective field theory (EFT) techniques. After a quick review of direct detection, I will discuss the various effective field theories… Read More

Title: An Introduction to Fusion Rings Abstract: Fusion rings turn up in various places in physics and mathematics.They are very simple mathematical structures describing generalizedaddition of charges. Nevertheless, they generalize finite groups andeven making a comprehensive list of small examples is hard. Given afusion ring, one may ask if there are more intricate and usefulstructures compatible with it. For example, is there a tensor categoryor even a modular tensor category with the same fusion rules? In thatcase the fusion ring is associated with a model of particles in 1+1Dor 2+1D with topological interactions. I will introduce fusion rings assuming no prior knowledge, discuss howone may try to find them (with help from a computer), and how to thentry and find the corresponding category structures. I hope to givesome interesting examples, including rings with non-Abelian fusion andto discuss applications to particles braiding on wire networks. Talk – Video I Talk – Video II