Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the Week of November 1st through November 7th, 2015
Monday, November 2nd, 2015
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
- Effective field theory for spacetime symmetry breaking
- Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Toshifumi Noumi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Abstract: Spacetime symmetry breaking often appears in condensed matter physics and cosmology. In contrast to the internal symmetry case, it is known that the number of broken global spacetime symmetries does not coincide with that of physical Nambu-Goldstone (NG) fields in general. Correspondingly, the coset construction of effective action has to be implemented with the so-called inverse Higgs constraints to compensate such a mismatch. In this talk, I revisit the effective action construction for spacetime symmetry breaking from the local symmetry point of view. Since NG fields are generated by local transformations of order parameters, such a local picture provides a correct identification of physical NG fields. I will illustrate the importance of the local picture and revisit the coset construction. I will also discuss applications to condensed matter physics and cosmology.
- Host: Gary Shiu
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
- No events scheduled
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
- No events scheduled
Friday, November 6th, 2015
- No events scheduled