CondMat for Dummies: One random interface, many imaginary copies
- Date
- Jun 12, 2026
- Time
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Speaker
- Sen Mu
- Affiliation
- MPI-PKS
- Language
- en
- Main Topic
- Physik
- Other Topics
- Physik
- Description
- Take a single elastic interface wandering through disorder. To understand its fluctuations, we first do the most unreasonable thing: replicate it n times. The disorder average then turns the problem into interacting quantum particles and let us solve it. Then we sent n to zero, the copies vanish, and what remains is the physics of the original interface: its free energy and how it fluctuates. Hooray! the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Universality Class.
Last modified: Jun 12, 2026, 7:35:22 AM
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Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer SystemeNöthnitzer Straße3801187Dresden
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- + 49 (0)351 871 0
- MPI-PKS
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- http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
Organizer
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer SystemeNöthnitzer Straße3801187Dresden
- Phone
- + 49 (0)351 871 0
- MPI-PKS
- Homepage
- http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
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