Volume 107

iTHEMS Weekly News Letter

Seminar Report

Biology Seminar by Dr. Hiroshi Yokota on June 3, 2020

2020-06-05

In the 6th biology seminar, Hiroshi Yokota (iTHEMS fellow at Kyoto University) talked about his theoretical work on the energy of chromosome loop structure (collaborative work with Masashi Tachikawa). Through the modeling, he talked about the possibility that the chromosome loop structure may occur due to ATP hydrolysis. His work will stimulate future debate over the source of the energy needed for chromosome loops to occur. Great talk, Hiroshi!
-Ryosuke Iritani

Upcoming Events

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iTHEMS Theoretical Physics Seminar

Field theoretical approach to relativistic hydrodynamics

June 12 (Fri) at 13:00 - 14:30, 2020

Masaru Hongo (Visiting Scientist, iTHEMS / Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics Department, The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA)

Hydrodynamics is a low-energy effective theory of a conserved charge density, which describes a long-distance and long-time behavior of many-body systems. It is applicable not only to a non-relativistic weakly-interacting dilute gas but also a relativistic strongly-interacting dense liquid like a quark-gluon plasma. The main purpose of this seminar is to explain how we can derive the hydrodynamic equation from the underlying field-theoretical description of systems [1-3]. Our derivation is based on the recent development of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and we show that the procedure to derive hydrodynamic equations is similar to the so-called renormalized/optimized perturbation theory. Also, to describe transport phenomena in local thermal equilibrium, we give a path-integral formula for a thermodynamic functional, which results in the emergence of thermally induced curved spacetime [2]. These results enable us to derive hydrodynamic equation based on quantum field theories.

References

  1. T. Hayata, Y. Hidaka, M. Hongo, and T. Noumi, Phys. Rev. D 92, 065008 (2015).
  2. M. Hongo, Annals of Physics, 383, 1 (2017).
  3. M. Hongo, K. Hattori, arXiv: 2005.10239 [hep-th].

Event Official Language: English

Seminar

iTHEMS Math Seminar

Information geometry of operator scaling

June 17 (Wed) at 16:00 - 18:10, 2020

Tasuku Soma (Research Associate, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)

Matrix scaling is a classical problem with a wide range of applications. It is known that the Sinkhorn algorithm for matrix scaling is interpreted as alternating e-projections from the viewpoint of classical information geometry.

Recently, a generalization of matrix scaling to completely positive maps called operator scaling has been found to appear in various fields of mathematics and computer science, and the Sinkhorn algorithm has been extended to operator scaling.

In this study, the operator Sinkhorn algorithm is studied from the viewpoint of quantum information geometry through the Choi representation of completely positive maps. The operator Sinkhorn algorithm is shown to coincide with alternating e-projections with respect to the symmetric logarithmic derivative metric, which is a Riemannian metric on the space of quantum states relevant to quantum estimation theory. This talk is based on joint work with Takeru Matsuda.

Venue: via Zoom

Event Official Language: English

Seminar

DMWG Seminar

Dark Matter Heating vs. Rotochemical Heating in Old Neutron Stars

June 22 (Mon) at 16:00 - 17:00, 2020

Koichi Hamaguchi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)

*Detailed information about the seminar refer to the email

Venue: via Zoom

Event Official Language: English

Paper of the Week

Week 2 of June

2020-06-11

Title: d∗(2380) dibaryon from lattice QCD
Author: Shinya Gongyo, Kenji Sasaki, Takaya Miyamoto, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Yoichi Ikeda, Takashi Inoue, Noriyoshi Ishii
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00856v1

Title: Universality classes of non-Hermitian random matrices
Author: Ryusuke Hamazaki, Kohei Kawabata, Naoto Kura, Masahito Ueda
arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.13082v7

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