From symmetries and strings to hydrodynamics
Event Date:
2019-03-11T11:00:00
2019-03-11T12:30:00
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Speaker:
Nabil Iqbal
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Leanne Ebbs
Event Information:
Symmetries are a key tool for organizing our understanding of the physical world. Conventional symmetries in quantum systems are associated with the conservation of a density of particles. However many systems of interest — such as ordinary Maxwell electrodynamics — contain conserved densities of higher dimensional objects, such as strings. I will explain the novel symmetry principle behind this conservation and then apply it to a variety of physical problems, including the proof of a Goldstone theorem associated with string condensation, a new symmetry-based formulation of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, and an effective theory approach to describing strongly magnetized plasma in pulsar magnetospheres.
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2019-03-11T11:00:00
2019-03-11T12:30:00
From symmetries and strings to hydrodynamics
Event Information:
Symmetries are a key tool for organizing our understanding of the physical world. Conventional symmetries in quantum systems are associated with the conservation of a density of particles. However many systems of interest — such as ordinary Maxwell electrodynamics — contain conserved densities of higher dimensional objects, such as strings. I will explain the novel symmetry principle behind this conservation and then apply it to a variety of physical problems, including the proof of a Goldstone theorem associated with string condensation, a new symmetry-based formulation of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, and an effective theory approach to describing strongly magnetized plasma in pulsar magnetospheres.
Event Location:
Hennings 318