Entanglement Bootstrap, a perspective on quantum field theoryConfirmed

by John McGreevy (UC San Diego)

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025, 2:00 p.m. → 3:30 p.m. America/Toronto

PI/2-292 - Time Room (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

I will introduce the Entanglement Bootstrap, a program to extract and understand the universal information characterizing a state of matter, starting from the local entanglement structure of a single representative state. This universal information is usually packaged in the form of a quantum field theory; the program therefore provides a surprising new perspective on quantum field theory. I will discuss what we can learn about gapped topological phases and their associated topological field theories, and about quantum critical points and their associated conformal field theories.