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Stanford Physics Department event

Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium: Emergent symmetry - a new way to understand strongly interacting gapless states and quantum field theory

Summary
Xiao-Gang Wen (Caltech)
Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 201

Refreshments served in the courtyard between Varian and PAB at 4:30 p.m.
Feb
14
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Content

It is well known that gapless states have emergent symmetry. If we greatly generalize symmetry to include anomalous non-invertible ones, and beyond, the generalized emergent symmetry may largely characterize gapless states. We may understand a gapless state via its emergent symmetry.  Here, I will use a simple language of conservation law and selection rule to explain the modern understanding of anomalous and non-invertible symmetry, and how generalized symmetry can largely determine low energy properties of gapless liquid states.