16–19 Dec 2025
Facultad de Ciencias
Europe/Madrid timezone

Many-body wavefunctions from conformal field theory

19 Dec 2025, 13:30
30m
Seminario de Física Atómica, Nuclear y Molecular (Facultad de Ciencias)

Seminario de Física Atómica, Nuclear y Molecular

Facultad de Ciencias

Speaker

Adrián Franco Rubio (U. Complutense de Madrid)

Description

In quantum many-body physics, ansatz wavefunctions and toy models can provide useful information about entanglement patterns and phases of matter. In this talk, we introduce families of spin chain wavefunctions defined in terms of correlators in chiral conformal field theory, which interpolate between well-known gapped and gapless exactly solvable models, and give rise to a certain correspondence between the geometry of the quantum field theory and the entanglement content of the spin chain.

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