Séminaire de Physique Théorique

Supersymmetry and Dimensional Reduction in Random Field Models

by Apratim Kaviraj & Emilio Trevisani (ENS, Paris & IHES)

Europe/Paris
Bâtiment Alix et Marwan Lahoud (IHES)

Bâtiment Alix et Marwan Lahoud

IHES

Le Bois Marie 35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
Description

In this talk we will discuss an ongoing work on random field models. First we will review a work by Parisi and Sourlas. They conjectured that the infrared fixed point of such random field models should be described by a supersymmetric conformal field theory (CFT). From this they argued that the disordered CFT admits a description in terms of a CFT in two less spacetime dimensions but without the disorder. We will explain how the dimensional reduction is realized. Finally we will discuss when and how the RG flow of the random field theory reaches the SUSY fixed point.

Organized by

Slava Rychkov

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