String Theory and the Real World From particle physics to astrophysics

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 29 July 2008

This book is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "String Theory and the Real World: From particle physics to astrophysics." Provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in String Theory, and Cosmology Addresses each topic from the basis to the most recent developments Covers the lectures by internationally-renowned and leading experts

• Author : Sacha Davidson,Paolo Gambino,Mikko Laine,Matthias Neubert,Christophe Salomon
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 20 April 2020

The topic of the CVIII session of the Ecole de Physique des Houches, held in July 2017, was Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general method for describing quantum systems with multiple length scales in a tractable fashion. It allows to perform precise calculations in established models (such as the Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology), as well as to concisely parametrise possible effects from physics beyond the Standard Models. The goal

• Author : Elias Kiritsis
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 16 April 2019

The essential introduction to modern string theory—now fully expanded and revised String Theory in a Nutshell is the definitive introduction to modern string theory. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, this concise and accessible book starts with basic definitions and guides readers from classic topics to the most exciting frontiers of research today. It covers perturbative string theory, the unity of string interactions, black holes and their microscopic entropy, the AdS/CFT correspondence

• Author : Patrick Dorey,Gregory Korchemsky,Nikita Nekrasov,Volker Schomerus,Didina Serban,Leticia Cugliandolo
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 24 July 2019

This volume, 106 of the Les Houches Summer School series, brings together applications of integrability to supersymmetric gauge and string theory. The book focuses on the application of integrability and problems in quantum field theory. Particular emphasis is given to the exact solution of planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and its relation with string theory on the one hand, and the exact determination of the low-energy physics of N=2 super-Yang-Mills theories on the other; links with other domains are also explored. The

• Author : Freddy Bouchet,Tapio Schneider,Antoine Venaille,Christophe Salomon
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 05 February 2020

This volume, number 109 of the Les Houches Summer School series, presents the lectures held in August 2017 on the subject of turbulent flows in climate dynamics. Leading scientists in the fields of climate dynamics, atmosphere and ocean dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, physics and non-linear sciences present their views on this fast growing and interdisciplinary field of research, by venturing upon fundamental problems of atmospheric convection, clouds, large scale circulation, and predictability. Climate is controlled by turbulent flows. Turbulent motions are responsible

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 29 July 2011

Dynamos is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "Dynamos". Provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in Dynamos Addresses each topic from the basis to the most recent developments Covers the lectures by internationally-renowned and leading experts

• Author : Antoine Browaeys,Thierry Lahaye,Trey Porto,Matthias Weidemüller,Charles S. Adams,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 14 May 2019

This book gathers the lecture notes of courses given at Session CVII of the summer school in physics, entitled "Current Trends in Atomic Physics" and held in July, 2016 in Les Houches, France. Atomic physics provides a paradigm for exploring few-body quantum systems with unparalleled control. In recent years, this ability has been applied in diverse areas including condensed matter physics, high energy physics, chemistry and ultra-fast phenomena as well as foundational aspects of quantum physics. This book addresses these topics

• Author : Eva Pebay-Peyroula,Christine Ziegler,Hugues Nury,François Parcy,Rob W. H. Ruigrok,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 May 2023

The aim of this title is to familiarise the new generation of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice field theory, which aims to resolve fundamental, non-perturbative questions about QCD without uncontrolled approximations.

• Author : Claudio Chamon,Mark O. Goerbig,Roderich Moessner,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 16 February 2017

This book contains lecture notes by world experts on one of the most rapidly growing fields of research in physics. Topological quantum phenomena are being uncovered at unprecedented rates in novel material systems. The consequences are far reaching, from the possibility of carrying currents and performing computations without dissipation of energy, to the possibility of realizing platforms for topological quantum computation.The pedagogical lectures contained in this book are an excellent introduction to this blooming field. The lecture notes are

• Author : Patrick Dorey,Gregory Korschemsky,Nikita Nekrasov,Didina Serban
• Publisher : Lecture Notes of the Les Houch
• Release : 30 May 2023

This volume, 106 of the Les Houches Summer School series, brings together applications of integrability to supersymmetric gauge and string theory. The book focuses on the application of integrability and problems in quantum field theory. Particular emphasis is given to the exact solution of planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and its relation with string theory on the one hand, and the exact determination of the low-energy physics of N=2 super-Yang-Mills theories on the other; links with other domains are also explored. The

• Author : Pierre-Francois Cohadon,Jack Harris,Leticia Cugliandolo
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 20 February 2020

The Les Houches Summer School in August 2015 covered the emerging fields of cavity optomechanics and quantum nanomechanics. Optomechanics is flourishing and its concepts and techniques are now applied to a wide range of topics. Modern quantum optomechanics was born in the late 1970s in the framework of gravitational wave interferometry, with an initial focus on the quantum limits of displacement measurements. Carlton Caves, Vladimir Braginsky, and others realized that the sensitivity of the anticipated large-scale gravitational-wave interferometers (GWI) was fundamentally

• Author : Laurent Baulieu,Michael R. Douglas,Karim Benakli,Bruno Mansoulié,Eliezer Rabinovici,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 30 May 2023

The book gathers the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School that was held in August 2011 for an audience of advanced graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in particle physics, theoretical physics, and cosmology, areas where new experimental results were on the verge of being discovered at CERN. Every Les Houches School has its own distinct character. This one was held during a summer of great anticipation that at any moment contact might be made with the most recent theories

• Author : Alexei L. Rebenko
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• Release : 04 July 2012

This monograph is devoted to the systematic and encyclopedic presentation of the foundations of quantum field theory. It represents mathematical problems of the quantum field theory with regard to the new methods of the constructive and Euclidean field theory formed for the last thirty years of the 20th century on the basis of rigorous mathematical tools of the functional analysis, the theory of operators, and the theory of generalized functions. The book is useful for young scientists who desire to

• Author : Jürg Frohlich,Manfred Salmhofer,Vieri Mastropietro,Wojciech De Roeck,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 24 May 2012

This book collects lecture courses and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2010 on "Quantum Theory: From Small to Large Scales". Fundamental quantum phenomena appear on all scales, from microscopic to macroscopic. Some of the pertinent questions include the onset of decoherence, the dynamics of collective modes, the influence of external randomness and the emergence of dissipative behaviour. Our understanding of such phenomena has been advanced by the study of model systems and by the derivation and analysis of

• Author : Gordon Kane,Bobby Acharya,Piyush Kumar
• Publisher : World Scientific
• Release : 23 December 2014

The remarkable recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider completed the Standard Model of particle physics and has paved the way for understanding the physics which may lie beyond it. String/M theory has emerged as a broad framework for describing a plethora of diverse physical systems, which includes condensed matter systems, gravitational systems as well as elementary particle physics interactions. If string/M theory is to be considered as a candidate theory of Nature,