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Speaker Name/Affiliation
Andreas Karch / University of Texas Austin
When
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Seminar Type
Location (Room)
Duane Physics Room G126
Event Details & Abstracts
Abstract: Critical phenomena in the presence of interfaces provide a
much richer arena than their more studied cousin of boundary critical
phenomena. In this talk, I'll review certain observables that are new
and unique in interface conformal field theory and then demonstrate some
novel bounds we can derive on these quantities using techniques from
holography and quantum information.
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