Seminar

Introduction to spin-boson model

June 22 (Fri) 10:30 - 17:30, 2018

Takeo Kato (The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), The University of Tokyo)

10:30-12:30 Introduction to spin-boson model @DR3 (14th Building 213) 14:00-15:30 Kondo effect @DR7 (14th Building 217) 16:00-17:30 Detail of NIBA formalism @DR7 (14th Building 217)

Venue: Yagami Campus, Keio University

Event Official Language: Japanese

Relative and equivariant Lagrangian Floer homology and Atiyah-Floer conjecture

June 19 (Tue) 14:30 - 16:00, 2018

Kenji Fukaya (Senior Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS) / Permanent Member, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, New York, USA)

Atiyah-Floer conjecture concerns a relationship between Floer homology in Gauge theory and Lagrangian Floer homology. One of its difficulty is that the symplectic manifold on which we consider Lagrangian Floer homology is in general singular. In this talk I will explain that, by using relative and equivariant version of Lagrangian Floer homology, we can resolve this problem and can at least state the conjecture as rigorous mathematical conjecture. Supported by RIKEN iTHEMS and Tuesday Seminar on Topology (Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo).

Venue: Room 056, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Event Official Language: Japanese

1-form Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem and anomaly matching in quantum dimer model

June 8 (Fri) 13:30 - 17:00, 2018

Yuta Kikuchi (RBRC Researcher, Theory Group, RIKEN BNL Research Center, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (RNC))

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem dictates that a trivial symmetric insulator in lattice models is prohibited if lattice translation symmetry and U(1) charge conservation are both preserved. In this talk, we discuss the generalization of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem to systems with higher-form symmetries, which act on extended objects of dimension n > 0. The prototypical lattice system with higher-form symmetry is the pure abelian lattice gauge theory whose action consists only of the field strength. We first construct the higher-form generalization of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem with a proof. We then apply it to the U(1) lattice gauge theory description of the quantum dimer model on bipartite lattices. Finally, using the continuum field theory description in the vicinity of the Rokhsar-Kivelson point of the quantum dimer model, we diagnose and compute the mixed ’t Hooft anomaly corresponding to the higher-form Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem.

Venue: SUURI-COOL (Kyoto)

Event Official Language: Japanese

Abelian-Higgs dualities in quantum defect-mediated melting phase transitions

April 27 (Fri) 14:30 - 17:30, 2018

Aron Beekman (Keio University)

In the study of zero-temperature quantum phase transitions, instead of looking how symmetry is broken, it is often useful to see how symmetry can be restored by the condensation of topological defects. Through a duality mapping, Nambu-Goldstone modes are represented as gauge bosons, mediating long-range interactions between topological defects. When the latter condense, those bosons get as mass via the Anderson-Higgs mechanism, which signals the loss of rigidity and the restoration of symmetry. I will first review the best-studied case: the 2+1D superfluid-insulator transitions where the defects are U(1) vortices. Consecutively several extensions are discussed: going to 3+1D where the defects are not point particles but strings, and quantum elasticity, which studies breaking of spatial translations and rotations.

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

Thermodynamic of a one-dimensional Bose gas at low temperature & superfluidity in neutron-star matter

April 24 (Tue) 15:30 - 16:30, 2018

Giulia De Rosi (The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)

Ultracold atomic gases and neutron-star matter play a paramount importance in many-body physics, by exhibiting important analogies and differences. One of the most interesting phenomena shared by both systems is provided by superfluidity. In the first part of the talk, I will show that the chemical potential of a one-dimensional (1D) interacting Bose gas exhibits a non-monotonic temperature dependence which is peculiar of superfluids. The effect is a direct consequence of the phononic nature of the excitation spectrum at large wavelengths exhibited by 1D Bose gases. For low temperatures T, I demonstrate that the coefficient in the $T^2$ expansion of the chemical potential is defined by the zero-temperature density dependence of the sound velocity and it has been calculated along the crossover between the Bogoliubov weakly-interacting gas and the Tonks-Girardeau gas of impenetrable bosons. The theoretical predictions along the crossover are confirmed by comparison with the exactly solvable Yang-Yang model in which the finite-temperature equation of state is obtained numerically by solving Bethe-ansatz equations. In the second part of the talk, I will show the results of a study of the superfluid gap in pure neutron matter, associated with the formation of Cooper pairs in the $^1S_0$ channel. The interaction responsible of the onset of superfluidity is an effective interaction coming from a nuclear Hamiltonian strongly constrained by phenomenology and obtained from the correlated basis function (CBF) perturbation theory and the formalism of cluster expansions. The calculations have been carried out using an improved version of the CBF effective interaction, in which three-nucleon forces are taken into account using a microscopic model. Our results show that the superfluid transition occurs at values of densities corresponding to the neutron-star inner crust.

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

Numerical analysis of point vortex dynamics by the method of fundamental solutions

April 17 (Tue) 16:00 - 17:30, 2018

Koya Sakakibara (Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

iTHEMS / KUAMS Joint Seminar

Venue: Maskawa Hall, 1F, Maskawa Building for Education and Research

Event Official Language: Japanese

Including an ocean mixing model in atmospheric data assimilation: a case of Typhoon Soudelor 2015

April 17 (Tue) 15:00 - 15:30, 2018

Kohei Takatama (Postdoctoral Researcher, Data Assimilation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS))

Venue: Maskawa Hall, 1F, Maskawa Building for Education and Research

Event Official Language: English

Resurgence Theory for Non-Perturbative Quantum Analysis

March 28 (Wed) 13:00 - 15:00, 2018

Tatsuhiro Misumi (Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS) / Lecturer, Akita University)

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

Introduction to exact WKB analysis

March 27 (Tue) 10:00 - 12:00, 2018

Kohei Iwaki (Nagoya University)

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

Anomaly matching for spin chains

March 19 (Mon) 14:00 - 16:00, 2018

Yuya Tanizaki (Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Theory Group, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (RNC))

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

Several identities related to the degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and numbers

February 24 (Sat) 16:00 - 17:00, 2018

Takao Komatsu (Professor, Wuhan University, China)

In this talk we demonstrate some relations in degenerate Bernoulli polynomials, which may be expressed as a general convolution identity. We also show some properties of hypergeometric degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and numbers.

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

Diophantine Frobenius Problems — counting theory, generating function and zeta functions

February 23 (Fri) 16:00 - 17:00, 2018

Takao Komatsu (Professor, Wuhan University, China)

When a_1, ...,a_m are relatively prime positive integers, the number of solutions of the linear Diophantine equation a_1 x_1 + … + a_m x_m = b in non-negative integers x_1, ...,x_m, for any integer b, is our concern. We show several formulas to give the largest integer b without solution. Then we discuss the generating function of the number of solutions. Finally, we derive an explicit expression for an inverse power series over the gaps values of numerical semigroups generated by two integers. It implies a set of new identities for the Hurwitz zeta function.

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

Statistical mechanics of tissue homeostasis

January 22 (Mon) 14:00 - 15:00, 2018

Kyogo Kawaguchi (The University of Tokyo)

Adult tissues undergo rapid turnover as mature cells are continuously lost and new cells arise through cell division. The balance between the gain and loss of cells must be finely orchestrated to maintain tissues, but how this balance is achieved remains largely unknown. Previous works [1] have used universal scaling laws to claim that the fate choice of stem cells (division or differentiation) are made strictly cell-autonomously. However, we recently recorded every stem cell fate choice within the mouse skin epidermal regions over one week and found that, far from being cell-autonomous, stem cell loss by differentiation is compensated by direct neighboring division [2]. In this talk, I will describe a model of tissue homeostasis using a macroscopic nonequilibrium setup, and explain how the coarse-graining of this model will lead to the effective dynamics of the voter model (DP2). I will show how we can use the property of dynamical crossover in the model -from the cell-autonomous regime (critical birth-death model) to the fate-coordinated regime (voter model)- to measure the length and time scales of stem cell coordination. I will then explain the pitfall in two-dimensions of using scaling relations for the clonal fate trace of cells, and present the workaround we used in the data analysis to definitively show the existence of cell-to-cell fate correlation.

Venue: Common Room #246-248

Event Official Language: English

Compact-star phenomena and equation of state

December 28 (Thu) 10:30 - 11:30, 2017

Shun Furusawa (Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS))

Venue: SUURI-COOL (Kyoto)

Event Official Language: English

Theoretical study on the universality in biological clock and its species-specificity

December 27 (Wed) 16:00 - 17:00, 2017

Gen Kurosawa (Research Scientist, RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS) / Research Scientist, Theoretical Biology Laboratory, RIKEN)

Venue: SUURI-COOL (Kyoto)

Event Official Language: English

Mathematical Modeling of Retinal Cellular Mosaic Pattern Formation

December 27 (Wed) 13:30 - 14:30, 2017

Noriaki Ogawa (Postdoctoral Researcher, Interdisciplinary Theoretical Science Research Group (iTHES), RIKEN)

Venue: SUURI-COOL (Kyoto)

Event Official Language: English

Topology of linear operators and topological insulators

December 27 (Wed) 10:30 - 11:30, 2017

Yosuke Kubota (Research Scientist, RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS))

Venue: SUURI-COOL (Kyoto)

Event Official Language: English

Chiral Phases in Frustrated 2D Antiferromagnets and Fractional Chern Insulators

December 21 (Thu) 11:00 - 12:00, 2017

Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois, USA)

Venue: #535-537, 5F, Main Research Building

Event Official Language: English

Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe generated by Helical Hypermagnetic fields through chiral anomaly

December 20 (Wed) 11:00 - 12:00, 2017

Kohei Kamada (Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science, Republic of Korea)

Recent observations of TeV blazars by Fermi identified deficits of secondary GeV cascade photons.These observations can be explained by intergalactic magnetic fields, which may have a primordial origin.If the magnetic fields are helical and generated before the electroweak symmetry breaking,nontrivial interaction between (hyper)magnetic fields and other particles can cause some interestingand non negligible phenomena in the early Universe. In this talk, I will show that the baryon asymmetry can be generated by the chiral anomaly and this mechanism might be responsible for the present baryon asymmetry of the Universe. The intergalactic magnetic fields are its smoking-gun. If this mechanism is responsible for the present Universe,the BSM physics is needed for the generation of (hyper)magnetic fields but not for the baryogenesis.

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English

A New Look at Matrix Models for QCD3

November 24 (Fri) 16:30 - 18:00, 2017

Takuya Kanazawa

Non-chiral random matrix models for QCD in 2+1 dimensions and their new generalizations will be discussed.

Venue: Seminar Room #160

Event Official Language: English