High Energy Particle Theory Seminar - Alessio Miscioscia - DESY

Event time: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Sloane Physics Laboratory (SPL), Room 51 See map
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Talk Title: Exploring thermal CFTs from a bootstrap perspective

Abstract:
In this talk, I will present recent developments in the study of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) at finite temperature. The motivation for this work is different applications to holography, black holes in AdS as well as statistical physics.
Thermal dynamics are constrained by the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) condition. I will present explicit sum rules for one-point functions, providing a basis for setting up a numerical bootstrap problem. The KMS condition can also be used to extract the leading behaviour of one-point functions for heavy operators analytically. Additionally, I will extend the thermal bootstrap approach to temporal line defects, akin to Polyakov loops in gauge theories. The power of this framework will be demonstrated with specific examples.