Search Results - "Walters, Matthew T."

Virasoro conformal blocks and thermality from classical background fields by Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We show that in 2d CFTs at large central charge, the coupling of the stress tensor to heavy operators can be re-absorbed by placing the CFT in a…”
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Universality of long-distance AdS physics from the CFT bootstrap by Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We begin by explicating a recent proof of the cluster decomposition principle in AdS ≥4 from the CFT ≥3 bootstrap. The CFT argument also computes the…”
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A conformal truncation framework for infinite-volume dynamics by Katz, Emanuel, Khandker, Zuhair U., Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We present a new framework for studying conformal field theories deformed by one or more relevant operators. The original CFT is described in…”
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Momentum space CFT correlators for Hamiltonian truncation by Anand, Nikhil, Khandker, Zuhair U., Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We consider Lorentzian CFT Wightman functions in momentum space. In particular, we derive a set of reference formulas for computing two- and…”
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Flux correlators and semiclassics by Firat, Eren, Monin, Alexander, Rattazzi, Riccardo, Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We consider correlators for the flux of energy and charge in the background of operators with large global U(1) charge in conformal field theory…”
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On the stress tensor light-ray operator algebra by Belin, Alexandre, Hofman, Diego M., Mathys, Grégoire, Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We study correlation functions involving generalized ANEC operators of the form ∫ dx − x − n + 2 T − − x → in four dimensions. We compute two, three,…”
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Thermalization and chaos in a 1+1d QFT by Delacrétaz, Luca V., Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Katz, Emanuel, Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We study aspects of chaos and thermodynamics at strong coupling in a scalar model using LCT numerical methods. We find that our eigenstate spectrum…”
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Nonperturbative matching between equal-time and lightcone quantization by Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Katz, Emanuel, Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We investigate the nonperturbative relation between lightcone (LC) and standard equal-time (ET) quantization in the context of λϕ 4 theory in d = 2…”
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Towards a nonperturbative construction of the S-matrix by Henning, Brian, Murayama, Hitoshi, Riva, Francesco, Thompson, Jedidiah O., Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We present a nonperturbative recipe for directly computing the S -matrix in strongly-coupled QFTs. The method makes use of spectral data obtained in…”
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Lightcone effective Hamiltonians and RG flows by Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Katz, Emanuel, Vitale, Lorenzo G., Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We present a prescription for an effective lightcone (LC) Hamiltonian that includes the effects of zero modes, focusing on the case of Conformal…”
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Solving the 2D SUSY Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model with conformal truncation by Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Katz, Emanuel, Walters, Matthew T., Xin, Yuan

“…A bstract We use Lightcone Conformal Truncation to analyze the RG flow of the two-dimensional supersymmetric Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory, i.e. the theory of a…”
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New light species and the CMB by Brust, Christopher, Kaplan, David E., Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We consider the effects of new light species on the Cosmic Microwave Background. In the massless limit, these effects can be parameterized in terms…”
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Hawking from Catalan by Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Walters, Matthew T., Wang, Junpu

“…A bstract The Virasoro algebra determines all ‘graviton’ matrix elements in AdS 3 /CFT 2 . We study the explicit exchange of any number of Virasoro gravitons…”
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Eikonalization of conformal blocks by Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Walters, Matthew T., Wang, Junpu

“…A bstract Classical field configurations such as the Coulomb potential and Schwarzschild solution are built from the t-channel exchange of many light degrees…”
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Nonperturbative dynamics of (2+1)d ϕ4-theory from Hamiltonian truncation by Anand, Nikhil, Katz, Emanuel, Khandker, Zuhair U., Walters, Matthew T.

“…A bstract We use Lightcone Conformal Truncation (LCT)—a version of Hamiltonian truncation — to study the nonperturbative, real-time dynamics of ϕ 4 -theory in…”
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Identifying boosted new physics with non-isolated leptons by Brust, Christopher, Maksimovic, Petar, Sady, Alice, Saraswat, Prashant, Walters, Matthew T., Xin, Yongjie

“…A bstract We demonstrate the utility of leptons which fail standard isolation criteria in searches for new physics at the LHC. Such leptons can arise in any…”
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Thermalization and hydrodynamics of two-dimensional quantum field theories by Delacrétaz, Luca, Fitzpatrick, Andrew Liam, Katz, Emanuel, Walters, Matthew

“…We consider 2d QFTs as relevant deformations of CFTs in the thermodynamic limit. Using causality and KPZ universality, we place a lower bound on the timescale…”
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RG flow from ϕ 4 theory to the 2D Ising model by Anand, Nikhil, Genest, Vincent X., Katz, Emanuel, Khandker, Zuhair U., Walters, Matthew T.

“…We study 1+1 dimensional Φ 4 theory using the recently proposed method of conformal truncation. Starting in the UV CFT of free field theory, we construct a…”
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Nonperturbative dynamics of (2+1)d ϕ 4-theory from Hamiltonian truncation by Nikhil Anand, Emanuel Katz, Zuhair U. Khandker, Matthew T. Walters

“…Abstract We use Lightcone Conformal Truncation (LCT)—a version of Hamiltonian truncation — to study the nonperturbative, real-time dynamics of ϕ 4-theory in…”
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Semiconductor probes of light dark matter by Graham, Peter W., Kaplan, David E., Rajendran, Surjeet, Walters, Matthew T.

“…Dark matter with mass below about a GeV is essentially unobservable in conventional direct detection experiments. However, newly proposed technology will allow…”
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