3–6 Dec 2019
KEK
Japan timezone

Resurgence and Phase Transitions

4 Dec 2019, 10:30
40m
Kobayashi Hall, Kenkyu-Honkan bldg. 1F (KEK)

Kobayashi Hall, Kenkyu-Honkan bldg. 1F

KEK

Speaker

Prof. Gerald Dunne

Description

Resurgent asymptotics unifies perturbative and non-perturbative methods in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and gives a new perspective on phase transitions. I present an introduction to the basic ideas behind resurgence and several physical examples of phase transitions that can be probed this way, including the finite N approach to large N phase transitions. I also discuss new resurgent extrapolation methods that can extend asymptotic expansions throughout the complex plane.

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