Events List

DateEvent TypeSpeaker
03/01/2024Hep Th Discussion GroupPopov [ + ]
03/01/2024HEP Discussion SessionsZare [ + ]
03/04/2024CCPP Brown BagGabriel Cuomo [ + ]
03/04/2024Informal HEP TalkThomas Steingasser [ + ]
03/04/2024Informal HEP TalkFiona Seibold [ + ]
03/05/2024Astro SeminarBen Farr [ + ]
03/05/2024Grad Pheno Journal Club [ + ]
03/06/2024ArXiv DiscussionHEP/Pheno Journal Club [ + ]
03/06/2024HEP SeminarLuca Delacrétaz [ -- ]

Title: Bound on thermalization from hydrodynamic fluctuations
Abstract: Interacting systems thermalize. They can do so arbitrarily slowly, but not arbitrarily fast: the time scale necessary for a quantum many-body system to reach local thermal equilibrium has been conjectured to be bounded below by the Planckian time, hbar/T. I will show that consistency of hydrodynamics (or diffusion), which generically emerges at late times, implies that this local equilibration time indeed has a lower bound. The key tool is the derivation of universal corrections to diffusion at intermediate times using EFT techniques: when these corrections are large the system cannot have thermalized. For the special case of CFTs, combining this argument with scale invariance allows one to prove the conjectured Planckian bound. I will also discuss spin chains, where the knowledge of these universal corrections to diffusion can allow for precision tests of thermalization, and a more accurate identification of a thermalizing system's dissipative universality class with limited numerical resources. (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar)
03/08/2024Hep Th Discussion GroupPopov [ + ]
03/08/2024Informal HEP TalkFederico Ambrosino [ + ]
03/08/2024HEP Discussion SessionsZare [ + ]
03/11/2024CCPP Brown BagCameron Norton [ + ]
03/12/2024Astro SeminarAdrian Bayer [ + ]
03/12/2024Grad Pheno Journal Club [ + ]
03/13/2024HEP SeminarClaudio Andrea Manzari [ + ]
03/14/2024EPP Job TalkTova Holmes [ + ]
03/14/2024Informal HEP TalkXingyang Yu [ + ]
03/14/2024Physics Dept ColloquiumAbhay Narayan Pasupathy [ + ]
03/15/2024Hep Th Discussion GroupPopov [ + ]
03/19/2024Grad Pheno Journal Club [ + ]
03/20/2024ArXiv DiscussionHEP/Pheno Journal Club [ + ]
03/22/2024Hep Th Discussion GroupPopov [ + ]
03/22/2024Informal HEP TalkAlon Farragi [ + ]
03/22/2024Informal HEP TalkChris Hull [ + ]
03/25/2024CCPP Brown BagNeal Weiner [ + ]
03/25/2024Informal HEP TalkBingrong Yu [ + ]
03/26/2024Astro SeminarKen Van Tillburg [ + ]
03/26/2024Grad Pheno Journal Club [ + ]
03/27/2024HEP SeminarTony Gherghetta [ + ]
03/28/2024Physics Dept ColloquiumArjun Yodh [ + ]
03/29/2024Hep Th Discussion GroupPopov [ + ]
03/29/2024Oral DefenseReza Javadi Nezhad [ + ]
03/29/2024HEP Discussion SessionsZare [ + ]