Numerical approach to infrared conformality and associated dualities in 2+1 dimensions

PIRSA ID: 19110057
Series: Quantum Matter
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Quantum Matter
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Speaker(s):
  • Nikhil Karthik, Brookhaven National Laboratory

QFTs in 2+1 dimensions are powerful systems to understand the emergence of mass-gap and particle spectrum in QCD-like theories that describe our 3+1 dimensional world. Recently, these 2+1 dimensional systems have attracted even more attention due to conjectured dualities between seemingly very different theories and due to their applications to condensed matter systems. In this talk, I will describe our numerical investigations of the infrared behaviors of 2+1 dimensional U(1) and SU(N) gauge theories coupled to many favors of massless fermions using lattice regularization. I will also explain how lattice formulation is a potential tool to study and check particle-vortex dualities.