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### 13.02.2018 (Tuesday)

#### Emergent hydrodynamics in integrable systems out of equilibrium

Regular Seminar Benjamin Doyon (King's)

 at: 15:00 City U.room B103 abstract: The hydrodynamic approximation is an extremely powerful tool to describe the behavior of many-body systems such as gases. At the Euler scale (that is, when variations of densities and currents occur only on large space-time scales), the approximation is based on the idea of local thermodynamic equilibrium: locally, within fluid cells, the system is in a Galilean or relativistic boost of a Gibbs equilibrium state. This is expected to arise in conventional gases thanks to ergodicity and Gibbs thermalization, which in the quantum case is embodied by the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. However, integrable systems are well known not to thermalize in the standard fashion. The presence of infinitely-many conservation laws preclude Gibbs thermalization, and instead generalized Gibbs ensembles emerge. In this talk I will introduce the associated theory of generalized hydrodynamics (GHD), which applies the hydrodynamic ideas to systems with infinitely-many conservation laws. It describes the dynamics from inhomogeneous states and in inhomogeneous force fields, and is valid both for quantum systems such as experimentally realized one-dimensional interacting Bose gases and quantum Heisenberg chains, and classical ones such as soliton gases and classical field theory. I will give an overview of what GHD is, how its main equations are derived and its relation to quantum and classical integrable systems. If time permits I will touch on the geometry that lies at its core, how it reproduces the effects seen in the famous quantum Newton cradle experiment, and how it leads to exact results in transport problems such as Drude weights and non-equilibrium currents. This is based on various collaborations with Alvise Bastianello, Olalla Castro Alvaredo, Jean-Sébastien Caux, Jérôme Dubail, Robert Konik, Herbert Spohn, Gerard Watts and my student Takato Yoshimura, and strongly inspired by previous collaborations with Denis Bernard, M. Joe Bhaseen, Andrew Lucas and Koenraad Schalm.

### 29.06.2017 (Thursday)

#### Irreversibility of the renormalization group flow in non-unitary quantum field theory

Regular Seminar Benjamin Doyon (KCL)

 at: 14:00 QMWroom GO Jones 610 abstract: The talk is based on a very recent work of the speaker on generalising Zamolodchikov's c-theorem to non-unitary theories.

### 06.10.2010 (Wednesday)

#### The vertex operator algebra of conformal loop ensembles

Regular Seminar Benjamin Doyon (King's)

 at: 13:15 KCLroom 423 abstract: Vertex operator algebra (VOA) is the algebraic setup formalising conformal field theory. It develops in a mathematically complete way the idea of constructing quantum field theory using the algebra of symmetry currents and their modules. On the other hand, conformal loop ensembles (CLE) are measures on random loop configurations that are known, in certain cases, to describe the continuous limit of statistical models at critical points. There is a one-parameter family of such measures, supposed to correspond to all central charges between 0 and 1. These two constructions enjoy complete mathematical rigour, and give the opportunity to understand with more precision the relation between the statistical interpretation of QFT, and its algebraic description. I will describe some of my recent works in this direction: I will explain how to construct the Virasoro VOA (the stress-energy tensor and its descendents) in terms of random objects in CLE. No prior knowledge of either VOA or CLE is needed as I will review both subjects.

### 04.10.2006 (Wednesday)

#### Solving Painleve' connection problems using 2-dimensional integrable quantum field theory

Regular Seminar Benjamin Doyon (Oxford University)

 at: 15:00 City U.room CM375 abstract: TBA