Jul 14 – 18, 2025
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Charlotte Kristjansen: Quantum Quenches from Quantum Fields

Jul 16, 2025, 10:00 AM
1h
Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan

Description

An integrable spin chain underlies the celebrated AdS/CFT duality. Overlaps between matrix product states and Bethe eigenstates of the chain contain information both about correlation functions of the quantum field theory entering the duality and about the behavior of the spin chain after a quantum quench. I will explain how such overlaps can be calculated exactly.

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