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Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
Faculty: Benoît Estienne, Yacine Ikhlef
Tutors: Benoît Estienne, Yacine Ikhlef
ECTS: 3
Language of instruction: Anglais
EXAMINATION: Oral - All the day
Description :
This course is an introduction to Conformal Field Theory (CFT), in the context of two-dimensional (and quantum 1d) critical phenomena. We introduce the basic concepts of CFT : conformal invariance, primary operators, stress-energy tensor, Virasoro algebra, with some emphasis on the correspondence with concrete objects in the corresponding critical models. We expose the CFT formalism to treat correlation functions: Operator Product Expansions (OPEs), fusion rules, null-vector equations. We present the series of minimal models, which give a classification of unitary models of phase transitions. We study more advanced topics, such as modular invariance and the analytical conformal bootstrap. The goal of this course is to provide a solid exposition of the CFT formalism in two dimensions, as well as a good basis to develop the intuition for its application to Statistical Mechanics.
Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr