Quantum Hall Matrix Models (Quantum Spacetime Seminar)

by Prof. David Tong (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

Monday 22 Feb 2016, 11:30 → 12:30 Asia/Kolkata

A304

I'll describe a simple matrix model that describes certain Abelian and on-Abelian quantum Hall states. The matrix model arises from the dynamics of vortices in Chern-Simons theories. The dynamics of this matrix model capture aspects of the WZW model which lives on the boundary.

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