23.10.2013 (Wednesday)

Conformal Bootstrap, the 3d Ising Model, and the Epsilon-expansion

Regular Seminar Slava Rychkov (CERN and ENS and Univ.Paris 6)

at:
13:15 KCL
room S-1.04
abstract:

A classic problem in field theory is to compute the critical exponents of the second-order phase transitions in 3d, for example for the Ising model universality class. Traditionally, this problem has been approached via RG-based techniques, such as the Wilson-Fisher epsilon-expansion. Here I will discuss another method to extract the critical exponents, and more, by using conformal field theory.