String Theory Seminars

Bounds on Energy and Transport in Quantum Field Theory (Quantum Spacetime Seminar Series)

by Prof. Thomas Hartman (Cornell University, USA)

Asia/Kolkata
A 304

A 304

Description
Local energy density can be negative in QFT, but unitary QFTs obey the averaged null energy condition (ANEC). I will show that this constrains the relaxation to equilibrium in relativistic systems at finite temperature, placing bounds on the viscosity and thermalization length.
Poster