Particle Physics Seminar: Quantization of Hydrodynamics and Gravitational anomaly
Professor Paul Wiegmann, Department of Physics and the College, Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 December 2024, 13:30
Kaplun Building, Room 324
Lecture of the IAS Distinguished Scholar
Abstract:
We discuss the quantization of 2D hydrodynamics of incompressible perfect fluid in two dimensions with a focus on chiral flows. Chiral flows occur in rotating fluids and also in electronic systems in the regime of a fractional Hall effect. The quantization is based on a relation of chiral flows to two-dimensional quantum gravity and is implemented by the gravitational anomaly.
Seminar Organizer: Dr. Michael Geller
