Seminar series
Date
Mon, 17 Oct 2022
13:00
13:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Mark Mezei
Organisation
Oxford
According to the correspondence principle, classical physics emerges in the limit of large quantum numbers. We examine three examples of the semiclassical description of conformal field theory data: large charge boundary operators in the O(2) model, large spin impurities in the free triplet scalar field theory and large charge Wilson lines in QED. By simultaneously taking the coupling to zero and quantum numbers to infinity, we can connect the microscopic to the emergent classical description smoothly.