Topic:

Vorstellung der Arbeitsgruppen

Date:

21.10.19

Time:

16:15

Place:

H6

Guest:

Arbeitsgruppen der Physik

Abstract:

Contact person:

Fachschaft

Topic:

Relativistic hydrodynamics, heavy-ion collisions, dynamical black holes and resurgent series

Date:

18.10.19

Time:

16:15

Place:

V3-201

Guest:

Michal P. Heller

Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam

Abstract:

The past 12 years has constituted the golden age for theoretical studies of relatativistic hydrodynamics. The experimental motivation for these developments came from ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision at RHIC and LHC accelerators in which the paradigm of strongly-interacting medium modelled hydrodynamically became the working horse for explaining the data. These experimental and phenomenological developments have come hand-in-hand with theoretical progress in understanding relativistic hydrodynamics as an effective description embedded in quantum field theory. In my colloquium I will review the line of thought based on AdS/CFT (holography), an approach to study strongly-coupled quantum field theories using gravitational techniques, focusing on understanding the limits of applicability of relativistic hydrodynamics in far-from-equilibrium quantum field theory. A beautiful spin-off of this analysis is understanding hydrodynamic gradient expansion as a part of a trans-series, which encodes, through resurgence, information about genuinely non-equilibrium excitations of a collective state of matter. Based on a series of works reviewed in arXiv:1610.02023 and arXiv:1707.02282, as well as some later / ongoing work.

Contact person:

S. Schlichting

Topic:

Quark Mass Definition and Extraction from (2+1+1)-Flavor Lattice QCD

Date:

24.10.19

Time:

14:15

Place:

D6-135

Guest:

Urs Heller

American Physical Society

Abstract:

I summarize a new heavy quark mass definition, the minimal renormalon subtracted (MRS) mass by the TUM QCD collaboration. It is based on the relation between the heavy quark mass and heavy-light meson masses in heavy quark effective theory. The Fermilab Lattice, MILC, and TUM QCD collaborations then used this new method to extract heavy quark masses using (2+1+1)-flavor HISQ ensembles of the MILC collaboration including ensembles with physical light quarks. I end with showing results on heavy-light pseudoscalar meson decay constants obtained in a similar analysis.

Contact person:

O. Kaczmarek

Topic:

tba

Date:

31.10.19

Time:

14:15

Place:

D5-153

Guest:

Christian Eidecker

Bielefeld University

Abstract:

Contact person:

Peter Reimann

Topic:

Critical behaviour and characteristic polynomials of non-Hermitian random matrices

Date:

23.05.19

Time:

16:15

Place:

D5-153

Guest:

Nicholas Simm

University of Sussex

Abstract:

I will discuss some recent developments regarding the normal matrix model. In particular my interest will be in certain critical models where the limiting support of the eigenvalues can radically change its topology by slightly adjusting an external parameter. I will discuss how aspects of the model can be explicitly mapped to the study of expectations of characteristic polynomials of non-Hermitian random matrices (e.g. Ginibre or truncated unitary). Many of these averages are related to Painlevé transcendents, and by exploiting this, a precise and non-trivial asymptotic expansion of partition functions can be calculated in the critical models. This is joint work with Alfredo Deaño (University of Kent).

Contact person:

Gernot Akemann

Topic:

Spectral radius of random matrices with independent entries

Date:

23.10.19

Time:

16:15

Place:

V3-201

Guest:

Johannes Alt

University of Geneva

Abstract:

We consider random n x n matrices X with independent and centered entries and a general variance profile. We show that the spectral radius of X converges with very high probability to the square root of the spectral radius of the variance matrix of X when n tends to infinity. We also establish the optimal rate of convergence, that is a new result even for general i.i.d. matrices beyond the explicitly solvable Gaussian cases. The main ingredient is the proof of the local inhomogeneous circular law [arXiv:1612.07776] at the spectral edge. This is joint work with L\'{a}szl'{o} Erd\'"os and Torben Kr\"uger.

Contact person:

Gernot Akemann